Letter of Liberty News Edition (1-31-2013)

Here is the Friday News Edition.

Dave Albin makes the case for a free market in food labeling.

Thomas DiLorenzo takes a look at the link between Lincoln's army and Hitler.

Scott Lazarowitz asks whether the people will wake up.

Robert Murphy gives his thoughts on Peter Schiff's talks on the minimum wage.

Joseph Salerno sets Krugman straight about Mises and the Great Depression.

Prof. Michael Chossudovsky exposes how America's government has warred on the world for so long.

Robert Higgs gives his thoughts on his connection with the late Governor Issac Stevens.

John Whitehead points to the greatest threats to the freedom of America.

Joe Alton takes a look at expiration dates and survival prepping

Egon von Greyerz talks about gold and the "lost century."

Dr. Helen Smith takes a look at the college hostility to manhood.

Anthony DeBlasi takes a look at the nameless hurt of military action.

Michael Rozeff takes a look at why the US has lost manufacturing jobs.

Chuck Baldwin shows how the virus of police statism has infected the world.

Justin Raimondo looks at the reluctant "realism" of Obama.

Ilana Mercer makes the case for secession instead of another convention.

John Odermatt takes a look at state protectionism and sports gambling interests.

Jacob Hornberger contrasts the two systems America has had.

Tori Richard exposes the link between IRS horrors and Obamacare.

James Miller warns of Ben Bernanke puff pieces.

Laurence Vance gives his solution to the problem of unemployment benefits.

Justin Raimondo exposes yet another neocon trick: using WWII to justify our modern wars.

Jason Harrington gives his confessions about his work at the TSA.

Louise Cooper talks on F. A. Hayek.

Jeremy Scahill exposes Obama's drone wars and his whitewashing of surveillance statism.

Javier Garay exposes the fallacies of the war against inequality.

Jeff Miron asks if the drug war is over.

Radley Balko looks at another evil of the drug war.

Peter Jenkins exposes yet another manufactured foreign crisis.

Jonathan Goodwin explains what is paranoia and what is not.

Peter Schiff: How to Protect Yourself Against the Monetary Central Planners

Peter Schiff: How to Protect Yourself Against the Monetary Central Planners

Do We Live in a Police State? | Ron Paul

Letter of Liberty News Edition (1-28-2014)

Here is the Tuesday News Edition of Letter of Liberty:

C. Jay Engel gives his thoughts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Yuri Maltsev explains the truth about the Tea Party.

James E. Miller exposes the fallacies of The New Republic.

Lew Rockwell gives his take on the New York Times's smear of libertarianism, Lew Rockwell, and the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

Phil Girardi gives his take on Christian Zionism, Canada, and the lessons for us.

Ron Paul shows how the welfare-warfare state is disastrous for us.

Robert Higgs explains his experiences with Governer Stevens.

BK Markus shows the fundamental difference betweeen Batman and James Bond (both of whom I appreciate nonetheless).

Terence Kealey makes the case against "public" science.

Norman Solomon advises us to "strike the root" of the NSA.

Pat Buchanan asks whether John Kerry understands what he is doing.

Justin Raimondo explains the leftist backlash against the anti-NSA movement.

Will Grigg gives his take on the recent arrest of Justin Bieber.

Theodore Dalrymple gives some advice to those nostalgic for the State.

Laurence Vance takes a look at the hard questions of the drug war from a libertarian standpoint.

Robert Wenzel defends the Mises Institute against the smears from the New York Times and some libertarians.

Karen De Coster gives her take on the new Google Glasses phenomenon.

Walter Williams shows the problems of the hate-envy culture.

Harry Mount takes a lot on a delicious feud.

Larry Shannon-Missal, Harris Poll & Michelle Gosney expose the fraud that is the public school teacher complex.

The Daily Mail reports on the backlash against LED lights.

Max Slowik celebrates the 159th birthday of John Moses Browning, creator of the M1911 pistol.

Robert Wenzel takes a look at whether Mises really was a cosmopolitan or not, as some libertarians make him out to be.

Patrice Lewis exposes the follies of feminism.

Richard Ebeling gives his perspective on the speech Obama should deliver.

Per Bylund explains why economics is not ridiculous.

Jacob Hornberger takes a look at the situation in Egypt.

Joseph Stromberg looks again at the revisionist historian Gabriel Kolko.

Richard Esposito reports on new revelations by Edward Snowden.

Art Carden explains why Bitcoin matters.

Marina Olson shows how healthy eating can be encouraged without government.

Thomas Lucente shows why Americans should read Frederic Bastiat's "The Law".

George Gilder gives his recommendations for reading.

John Walsh contrasts the imperialism of "free" America with the prosperity of "pinko" China.

Lloyd Billingsley comments on Obama's road to serfdom.

Kristin Tate takes a look at the talking points one will certainly hear from Obama's State of the Union today.

Brian McWilliams exposes yet another police-state scheme.

The Post-9/11 Foreign Policy Fiasco That Conservatives Cheered

The Post-9/11 Foreign Policy Fiasco That Conservatives Cheered

Letter of Liberty News Edition (1-17-2014)

Here is the Friday News Edition.

Michael Lotfi shows why Mark Levin is wrong on nullification.

Justin Raimondo asks if Mexico is coming undone.

T. Hunt Tooley shows how the interwar years created the modern world.

Nick Turse takes a look at America's secret war in 134 countries.

James E. Miller gives his solutions to fighting poverty.

Marc Clair interviews Professor Carlo Celli on the fascist economics of Mussolini.

Walter Block makes the case against minimum wage laws.

John Odermatt writes on the case of the D.C. cop charged with producing child porn.

Jacob Hornberger shows the immoral foundations of welfare statism.

Will Grigg makes the case that America's police statism may be worse than North Korea's.

Pat Buchanan looks at why the government is (rightly) held in contempt by Americans.

Julian Borger explains Israel's secret nuclear arsenal.

Frank Holmes takes a look at the risks of gold.

Would you like to know what the ten best countries for food are? The US isn't part of them.

Chris Eger makes the case for buying a home defense shotgun.

Liu Wei takes a look at another NSA whistleblower.

Dale Steinreich exposes a horrific way the medical cartel is going to treat sleep apnea.

Ann Marie Michaels exposes the dangers of flouride.

Sheldon Richman shows why violation of rights isn't the only bad thing.

Sheldon Richman argues against IP. Robert Wenzel responds.

Robert Murphy comments further on Krugman.

C. Jay Engel comments on conservatism and libertarianism.

Jordan Bruneau calls out the racist history of minimum wage laws.

David Sirota exposes yet another evil of the national-security state.

The Washington Post Editorial Board exposes yet another example of cronyism.

Ed Loomis explains the protections we really need.

Paul Rosenberg makes the case that the Scriptures are anti-government.

Jeffrey Tucker on THE DISCOVERY OF FREEDOM

Jeffrey Tucker, editor of Laissez-Faire Books, gives an interesting and worthwhile exploration of Rose Wilder Lane's libertarian classic The Discovery of Freedom, a work that has inspired freedom lovers since its publications.

Says Tucker:

People schooled in the libertarian idea are prepared for the thesis that freedom is productive and protective of human rights, whereas despotism is neither. Many years ago, I first glanced through Rose Wilder Lane’s The Discovery of Freedom and assumed that it was an eloquent statement of known truths, so surely there was nothing much to learn here. Maybe it was right for beginners. 

In my second reading, some ten years later, I was struck by the depth and sweep of her argument and how it goes far beyond conventions. The problem, as she sees it, is not just the state, but rather, the universal penchant for repressing the human spirit. The state is only the most egregious form of authority. 

Finally, on my third reading, I got it. This is a supremely radical and challenging work, one that essentially turns the world upside down. Nearly every expert on the topic of the history of civilization will tell you that the regime is what makes the difference between whether a nation rises or falls. 

Lane takes another view entirely. She says it is not the regime but the absence of the regime that sets the human spirit in flight and permits it to create and make beautiful things out of the uncivilized world of the state of nature. She pictures the whole history of humanity as a struggle to be free of authority — not just this or that authority but all authority.

I recommend this great article for reading and sharing, even though it is not explicitly Christian-oriented (though a Christian spirit is infused in it). I would also like to comment on the mention of Islam as a tool for freeing humanity and liberating civilization. While it is a false religion from a Christian perspective, God did use Islam in its initial stages to declare His glory through the liberation of civilization and the flourishing of arts, culture, math, science, and other things, before it turned into an authoritarian and militaristic religion. In some ways, God used Islam to help the Christian world and Christendom in many ways, even in leading Christendom to cast off its former bias against commercial dealings (which are not so much rooted in apostolic and biblical teaching as it is to post-apostolic doctrines later infused into the church).

Anyways, this article and the book will be of service for interesting discussions and thoughts in the ages to come.