‘Steve Farrell’ Archives
I Demur
By Steve Farrell Emily Dickinson spoke to her time as well as ours when she penned this penetrating line: Assent — and you are sane — Demur — you're straightway dangerous And handled with a chain. I wonder, this day, can the State of Arizona and its good people relate to the treatment Dickinson predicted? I'm sure they can. Have they [...]
Americanus Speaks to Arizona’s Immigration Crisis and to All of Us
By Steve Farrell As the illegal immigration crisis proceeds a pace, and an American President has so far removed himself from his duty (and his wits) that he has ordered his Justice Department to sue an American state (Arizona) for doing its duty and for having its wits about it in defense of its citizens and their property — a little wit and [...]
Glen Beck On the C.F.R. and Media Bias
By Steve Farrell In video clips posted today at JBS.org, Glen Beck addresses what the John Birch Society has been warning about for the past 50 years, a cabal of Insiders (member of the Council of Foreign Relations - CFR) who have infiltrated the government and the media working hand and glove to deceive the America people with the goal of [...]
Nil Desperandum
By Steve Farrell Liberty Letters, Samuel Adams, 1772 Human nature being what it is, patriotic fervor tends to come and go. In 1772, when it seemed to be more going than coming, James Warren reported to Samuel Adams from Plymouth about the towns he had been canvassing: "They are dead," he lamented, "and the dead can't be raised without a [...]
A Blessing or a Curse? — George Washington
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, George Washington In June of 1783, America's fate swung between the between the extremes of anarchy (because of too much democracy and too little executive power) and tyranny (the natural result of anarchy or the desire to restore order); which led George Washington to observe: "It is yet to be decided [...]
University of Illinois Professor Fired For Standing By Catholic Teaching on Homesexuality — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell Calling it hate speech, the University of Illinois has fired a Catholic professor hired to teach an introductory course on Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought for responding to a student question about why homosexuality is immoral under Natural Law. The professor, Ken Howell answered in his email: "Natural Law says [...]
John Adam’s Prophecy
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, John Adams Liberty, that has been compelled to skulk about in Corners of the Earth, and been everlastingly persecuted by the great, the rich, the noble, the reverend, the proud, the lazy, the ambitious, avaricious, and revengeful, who have from the beginning constituted almost all of the sons of Adam. Liberty, [...]
Madison’s Notes — Federal Convention of 1787 — July 14
Liberty Letters, 14 July 1787, James Madison (Editor's Summary: Discussed: how to admit Western State (and on what terms), the origination of money bills, and the equality of votes in the Senate as a check in favor of state rights and also in favor of the smaller states against the larger. The debate focused mostly on this Senate issue with [...]
What Goes Around Comes Around — Steve Farrell
by Steve Farrell There's a maxim everyone's heard, personally mouthed, and undoubtedly believes: "What goes around comes around." Or, "the boomerang effect." Remarkably, however, although we've all heard, mouthed, and believed it, many arrogantly claim a personal exception from this law of God and Nature — even when it comes to some [...]
Braddock’s Defeat, Washington’s Miraculous Preservation
Amercanist History, 1749-1755, William J. Jackman From William J. Jackman's account of Braddock's defeat — a fully avoidable defeat had General Braddock taken the advice of young George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and others about troop movements and how to best fight Indians in the American wilderness — we read of a most remarkable [...]
Rescuing Our Kids and Country From Karl Marx — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell It bears repeating: If we hope to halt, reverse and permanently alter America's descent into the gutter of debauchery and that political tyranny that is forever its companion — "education is the key." (1) And if so, it must be, it can only be that that education is initiated, financed, and controlled by parents, not by [...]
Madison’s Notes — Federal Convention of 1787 — July 12
Liberty Alerts, 12 July 1787, James Madison (Editor's Summary: Gouvernuer Morris moved to add to the clause empowering the Legislature to vary the Representation according to the principles of wealth and number of inhabitants a "proviso that taxation shall be in proportion to Representation." General Pinckney agreed, Mason, Butler, Wilson [...]
Madison’s Notes — Federal Convention of 1787 — July 10
Liberty Letters, 10 July 1787, James Madison Editor's Intro: Debate over how many members will be in the first House of Representatives. More discussion on apportionment, and the need for an initial and periodic census. I've removed some of the shorthand, and updated the spelling. Steve Farrell Mr. KING reported from the Come. yesterday [...]
The Loyal Opposition — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell On the 6th of June 1776, Boston's Samuel Adams wrote to fellow Son of Liberty, James Warren, President of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts: "Tomorrow, a motion will be made, and a question I hope decided, the most important that was ever agitated in America." Indeed it was. The motion introduced in the Second [...]
Madison’s Notes — Federal Convention of 1787 — July 9
Liberty Letters, 9 July 1787, James Madison Editor's summary/best quotes: Patterson as to counting slaves in the rep. formula: "What is the true principle of Representation? It is an expedient by which an assembly of certain individuals chosen by the people is substituted in place of the inconvenient meeting of the people themselves. If such a [...]
A Rare Phenomena! — Steve Farrell
by Steve Farrell It is a rare phenomena, but sometimes Johnny-come-lately political movements get it right. Case in point: The Tea Party Revolution's wise choice to hold up the The United States Constitution rather than the Republican Party as the standard, the true red, white and blue American Ensign to which we must rally to save our [...]
Wisdom, Duty, and Action — John Dickinson
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, John Dickinson It certainly is not a wise man, who folds his arms, and reposes himself at home, viewing with unconcern, the flames that have invaded his neighbors house, without using any endeavors to extinguish them. ... When the slightest point, touching the freedom, of one colony, is agitated, I earnestly [...]
Communism Is the Goal — Roger Baldwin
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Roger Baldwin Today, the ACLU is synonymous with everything and anything that might hurt, insult, undermine, or overthrow Christianity, the United States Constitution, and the American Free Enterprise System - and empowering our enemies. That this has always been what the ACLU is really about is evidenced by [...]
What Is To Be Done? — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell In response to the question, "What is to be done?" Or more to the point, 'What is to be done to save the Republic from the grasp of the Establishment and its drive toward domestic and international socialism?' Barry Goldwater, in his 1994 book, "The Conscience of a Conservative," advised: "The ancient and tested truths that [...]
Peace, Easy Taxes, Justice — Adam Smith
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Adam Smith Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of affluence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. All governments which thwart the natural course are unnatural, and [...]
Term Limits and the Citizen Legislature Scam — Steve Farrell
by Steve Farrell In April of 1996, the traditionally liberal Democratic Party did something it is, in theory, never supposed to do. It out-conservatived the Republican Party, stood up for the U.S. Constitution, and threw out a radical proposal designed to transform the United States from a republic to a democracy. This the congressional [...]
The Custom of Tyrants and Their Dependents — Richard Henry Lee
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, 1787, Richard Henry Lee It is natural for men,who wish to hasten the adoption of a measure, to tell us, now is the crisis -- now is the critical moment which must be seized, or all will be lost: and to shut the door to free inquiry, whenever conscious the thing presented has defects in it, which time and [...]
When Elections Matter More — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell The NewsMax Years, 2 August 1999 One thing you have to admire about Pat Buchanan, wherever he is, so are the fireworks. This was especially true of his 1992 Republican Convention concession speech which was so filled with flint and fire that Pat almost burned the Republican Party down and left it for dead. He [...]
Educating for Freedom or Tyranny? — Goethe
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Goethe, with Steve Farrell Two centuries ago the German poet Goethe said: "The destiny of any nation, at any given time, depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty." Which helps explain why the socialist revolutionaries who have infected this country dating back to the days of Horace [...]
No Other Patron Necessary — Algernon Sidney
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Algernon Sidney This appears so plainly in Scripture, that the assertors of liberty want no other patron than God himself; and his word so fully justifies what we contend for ... Magna Charta could give nothing to the people, who, in themselves, had all; and only reduced into a small volume, the rights which [...]
New Amsterdam Becomes New York — William J. Jackman
Americanist History, 1609-1683, William J. Jackman Manhattan in the meanwhile was gaining numbers by emigration. The stern Stuyvesant was some times intolerant, but the company wished the people to enjoy the rights of conscience. They wished New Amsterdam to be as liberal to the exile for religion's sake as was its namesake in the Old World. [...]
No Inconsequential Matter — Steve Farrell
Liberty Letters with Steve Farrell Are socialistic policies ever legitimate in a constitutional republic? French Philosopher Frederic Bastiat provides a fit answer in his penetrating classic, "The Law:" When the law has exceeded its proper functions, it has done so merely some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further [...]
Pass Me The Phone Book … Please! — William F. Buckley Jr.
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, William F. Buckley Jr. I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand people on the faculty at Harvard. Liberty Letters is a project of The Moral Liberal. Compiled, and edited (with occasional commentary) by Editor in Chief, [...]
John Leland: Tireless Champion of Religious Liberty
Political Sermons, Founding Era, 1754-1841, John Leland bio John Leland (1754–1841). A key figure in the rise of religious liberty in America, the Baptist minister John Leland had two careers, one in Massachusetts, the other in Virginia. His only formal education was in the elementary schools of Grafton, Massachusetts, his birthplace, yet [...]
When Commies Are Patriots — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell If you haven't stepped inside a college classroom of late, you ought to. There you will see your taxes doing some of their "best" work; there you will discover whence cometh the appellation "rebel" so graciously attached to America's Founding Fathers. I first heard it in an undergraduate Early American history class nearly [...]
