On June 15th, 2015, Obama will deliver his greatest speech. For on that day he will commemorate the signing of the Magna Carta and what it meant to the English at the time, and to all English-speaking countries (as well as all other peoples) into the present day. He will elaborate on the rights inferred…
In his legal treatise, Institutes of the Laws of England (1628), Sir Edward Coke wrote, A man’s house is his castle and fortress, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium (and each man’s home is his safest refuge). This general legal principle, carried into common law, implied that no one may enter a person’s home without permission.…
A free society is one where liberty is endowed to the individual and limits government of the individual. English philosophy and the American founding in the 1700s remain the touchstone of current North American conservative thought. The media, or press, are a natural extension of this type of society. If a reporter sees an injustice…
I’m having a hard time with Lady Thatcher’s death. Some of it of course comes from the media that have morphed into a hybrid, far-left, liberal think-tank where notions of freedom, and what that freedom gives to each individual (and of course the family structures in which they inhabit), are considered racist, inhuman, bigoted and…
Thanks to Mark Levin and the FoxNation show for the link.
She embodied, more than most English political figures since the revolution of the colonies starting in 1775, a woman who understood, to her core, what English liberty actually meant. The ideals of liberty, including the average person having sanction over a king, started in England and culminated in the English Bill of Rights, 1689. Many…
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has what it describes as a: …bottom-up, consensus-driven, multi-stakeholder model… This is from its site [see here]: Bottom up. At ICANN, rather than the Board of Directors solely declaring what topics ICANN will address, members of sub-groups in ICANN can raise issues at the grassroots level.…
The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), in that beacon of freedom, Dubai, is looking at the future of the internet. And naturally the future of the internet should include opinions from dictatorships as well as freedom-loving countries as anything else would be unfair and unrepresentative. There appears to be three angles through which governments…
Why is it that when the United Nations is involved in anything it usually has some connection to redistributing the wealth of the West to poorer nations everywhere else. The UN’s other main mission in today’s world it seems is to keep chipping away at the messy legal systems in sovereign nations so that a…
Life, liberty & the non-pursuit of socialism 