POLISH MAN HUMILIATES AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN POLAND. WHOA

🚨 Viral video shows man confronting American soldiers stationed in Poland

"What is America's number one export? Is it George Floyd culture or sodomy?"

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— Keith Woods (@KeithWoodsYT) July 3, 2024

The Signers of the Declaration of Independence were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more.

Thank you to Tom Luongo.

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— unlikenine (@unlikenine) July 4, 2024

“Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.

Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.

Two lost their sons in the Revolutionary Army, and another had two sons captured.

Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.

They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

What kind of men were they?

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.

Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners, men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts and died in rags.

Thomas McKean was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers or both, looted the properties of Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. The owner quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later, he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.

Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: ‘For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.’” ~Michael W. Smith

Martyr for Liberty: Algernon Sidney

 

Thank you to Jim Ostrowski.  

Talking about a guy I should talk about more Algernon Sydney in general when we think about the founders and old revolutionaries names like Jefferson, Otis, Adams, and others, but the name they heard from were names like Locke, Montesquieu, and Sydney.  I'll talk about some of the primary ways that Algernon Sydney influenced the American revolutionaries and their views and their thoughts and actions, things like natural rights, government by consent, and the right to Revolution.

The American Revolution was something that happened before the War for Independence, before the shot heard around the world, before the British gun control program came in that really kind of escalated things that led to the Declaration of the causes and the necessity of taking up arms in July of 1775.  It was a change of the principles and the viewpoints of the people going back to as John Adams wrote, 1761 and James Otis Jr.'s point that "an act against the Constitution is void.  Government is not the one that holds authority over itself that determines the extent of its own power.  "If power flows from the people," as George Mason and so many others told us.  When government violates the rules, "it isn't up to the government to tell us whether or not it violated those rules."

Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the 10 Commandments, Libertarians, and lasting peace

"The biblical commandments go above and beyond what many libertarians regard as sufficient for the establishment of a peaceful social order"
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— Hans-Hermann Hoppe (@HoppeQuotes) July 3, 2024

PETER ST ONGE: So the Deep state is effectively passing 98.8% of our laws numbering roughly 11 per day

Last week the Supreme Court gutted the imperial bureaucracy that has usurped the will of the people and left us with a rabid mutant federal government no sane voter ever wanted.

Now begins the fun part -- hacking back at tens of thousands of rules that stunt the economy and… pic.twitter.com/OdZuOv4GPP

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) July 3, 2024

The Supreme Court just gutted the administrative state, the unelected deep-staters who have usurped the will of the people and left us with a rabid, mutant federal government no sane voter ever wanted.  Last Friday, the Supreme Court released a ruling Loper Bright vs. Raimondo that dethroned the so-called Chevron deference, a legal doctrine that for 40 years effectively forced judges to assume that government bureaucrats have whatever authority they want.  Since the 1970s, Chevron had become a keystone of the Administrative State cited by 70 subsequent Supreme Court decisions and over 17,000 rulings in lower courts.  Now it is gone.  The ruling itself involves a fishing boat that was forced to pay for regulator ride-alongs at a cost of $700 per day which would have bankrupted them.  So they sued, saying the agency did not have Congressional Authority; they just made up the rule.  The court agreed.  The larger issue is whether Congress makes law or do unelected bureaucrats make law?  This ruling says Congress makes laws, as it says in the Constitution.  The New York Times was positively horrified, mourning that the ruling "transfers power from the Executive branch to Congress."  In other words, it transfers powers from the unelected bureaucrats to the elected politicians, who actually have to answer to voters.  This matters because Federal bureaucrats currently spawn roughly 4,000 rules per year, which all have the force of law, compared to 50 actual substantive laws passed by Congress every year.  So the Deep state is effectively passing 98.8% of our laws numbering roughly 11 per day.  This is partly because the vast majority of rules are unpopular and would never be able to pass Congress.  So try running for election banning gas stoves or raising the gasoline tax, and see how far you get.  It's much easier to pass the buck to some bureaucratic Rando who cannot get fired.  The Loper ruling will lead to hundreds or possibly thousands of challenges to rules that were made without Congressional authority which is roughly all of the rules.  These range from environmental mandates and diversity to OSHA and the SEC, and they include the more totalitarian parts of the deep state.  For example, the COVID era tyranny never could have happened without Chevron deference.  No 6 ft distancing, no bans on going to church, no vax mandates, leaving your loved ones to die alone, none of those would ever have been passed by Congress.  All are now illegal.  Same for self-defense and the Second Amendment, where Rogue bureaucrats have banned bump stocks or directed banks to effectively close down gun shops again without Congressional authority.  And, of course, the border where Congress has famously passed nothing the entire open borders, human trafficking industrial complex is made of rules the administrative state made up.  In short, Loper reins in the rogue bureaucrats, who are currently running our country into the ground.  We've already seen fruits.  Two weeks ago, the Supremes struck the ban on bump stocks, and last week saw a separate case where the Supremes ruled the SEC cannot use its own in-house tribunal to impose fines which seems obvious given courts are supposed to be impartial but that was Chevron deference for you.  As for the economy, reining in the totalitarian administrative state means less crony regulation, less more jobs, more growth hiring, incomes, and less inflation.  It will take time for Loper to clear out the overgrowth clogging our economy, but the healing has begun.