Sometimes a video comes along that must be shared. This is one of those videos. The Reverand Ken Blanchard delivers a sermon on freedom, liberty, and the 2nd amendment in a Youtube video. As a new gun owner I can’t describe the feeling you get while exercising your 2nd Amendment rights, even in the safe environs of a shooting range. The best way I can come close to describing it is that you feel empowered. Empowered to protect yourself, family, friends, and strangers if the situation calls for it.
While I practiced and preached my own right to not own a gun for most of my life, recently I became a new gun owner. As I become more acquainted with firearms I’m starting to believe that owning and knowing how to operate a gun is a political declaration. The open carry of a firearm is like holding up a sign in public that reads: I demand to be free. Of course, many self defense experts will preach using concealment as the preferred method of carrying a self-defense weapon. With concealment you have the element of surprise and you are not advertising yourself as a “first target” for a would-be attacker. Still others argue that openly displaying a firearm can be a deterrent in itself. I suppose it all depends on the attacker’s state of mind.
Enough of my yammering… watch the excellent Rev. Blanchard below.
A Wisconsin road sign pointing travelers onto Business Highway 51 in Rothschild and Schofield bears an incorrect spelling for every word except exit. The photo says it all:
Chris Dodd’s days may be numbered. That is, if Peter Schiff and legions of his supporters have anything to say about it.
Peter Schiff has been contemplating a run for Dodd’s seat in the U.S. Senate representing Connecticut. Dodd is up for re-election in 2010 and is on shaky ground after his unwavering support of establishment DC politics.
Peter Schiff has become known (justifiably) as the guy who predicted the economic crisis. His assertions were mocked and ridiculed back in 2005/2006 when he had the audacity to suggest that the U.S. housing market was ready for a collapse.
Now that he’s been proven right people have been clamoring for him to run against Senator Dodd. He’s taken the first step toward that end by forming an exploratory committee in order to gauge the true interest in his potential campaign. That interest will be determined by the number of digits following the dollar signs donated to his exploratory committee. Yes, that means you need to part ways with some money if you want Schiff to run for office. It is the brutal truth that it takes money to win, especially in such a high profile election.
[UPDATE (by Mike Miller): If you donate to Peter Schiff's exploratory committee, and it turns out that he does not run for office, your donation will be returned to you.]
The Peter Schiff money bomb has been set for August 7th, 2009. The website is Schiffathon.com. The details from the site:
This will be a week long promotion to gain support. On August 1st 2009 RevolutionBroadcasting.com will be hosting a Jerry Lewis style telethon that will feature many great guests well known to the patriot movement. The Schiffathon leads up to the official moneybomb on August 7th 2009, please pledge to show your support for Peter Schiff and his bid for US Senate against Christopher Dodd in 2010.
So please prepare yourself to donate on August 7th if you’d like to have a chance at getting a friend of Ron Paul (politically and personally) into the Senate. For an excellent Peter Schiff video check out this one promoting the money bomb.
“Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, men become the tools of men. Blood, whips, and guns – or gold. Take your choice – there is no other – and your time is running out.” – Ayn Rand
by Jake Towne, the Champion of the Constitution
Originally published Saturday, July 25, 2009 at http://www.nolanchart.com/article6666.html
Douglas Gnazzo’s 2008 book, Honest Money: A History of United States Gold and Silver Currency, is an essential add to the reading list of any serious student of monetary systems. Far shorter than the massive tome of Edwin Vieira’s hopefully-soon-to-be-reprinted Pieces of Eight at 226 pages, Gnazzo takes the reader on a pleasurable blitzkrieg through our country’s rich monetary history, from the founders and the Constitution to modern times. Perhaps the most enthralling section of the book is the closing chapters where Gnazzo’s gives his thoughts on a future commodity-based currency and, more importantly, how to transition there from where we are now. Like myself, Gnazzo has called for a national debate on the subject before it is too late.
Gnazzo splashes all the colors of the truth on the wall for his readers. He relates how our money was slowly debased by the politicians’ wars and those pesky central bankers who weeviled their way back into power after America’s first two central banks were destroyed. He relates how the destructive virus of public debt was sown in during the founding of our country chiefly by Alexander Hamilton, the Revolutionary war hero and mercantilistic servant of the aristocracy in America.
Liberty Maven
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