[dragnet2]

Trust between strangers, the fundamental moral component of a free-market economy, barely exists. Without trust, how do you sign or enforce business contracts? How do you operate a system of credit? How do you maintain a basic sense of order?

A good description of current day America.

[Slyfox]

Good catch, Ray.

I have spent some time trying to define the word liberty. There are two types of definitions. One is objective and the other is subjective.

Our Founders understood the objective definition. Liberty is that which is freely given by God. And freedom is what we do with that liberty.

Liberty and freedom are often confused with each other.

The subjective version of liberty is when people make up their own definition of what they think liberty is.

The Declaration of Independence points to the correct definition of liberty. The Bill of Rights points to the correct definition of freedom.

[jazzlite]

This is the most inspirational piece I have read in recent times. It has reinvigorated my own resolve not to give up or give in to the disintegration going on all around us every day. This piece was written 8 years ago..Have we sunk so far since then that we cannot stand up and save ourselves and our nation under the current circumstances of the family, killing the unborn and the corruption of our institutions? There is one thing we know for certain. Towers of Babel do not endure. When people desire to become Americans, they must assimilate and we all need to reach out to cause,that to happen. Those who come here to steal and destroy our freedom need to be sent back to the conditions they came from. This is not the country for them. Please pass this piece to your social media..It holds the kind of insight and analysis which can inspire, lift depression and change hearts. Thanks so much to the posters of this great piece.

[Eagles6]

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[fwdude]

Not one mention of the marriage redefinition juggernaut. Pretty poor writing, and I think I can detect where the author falls on this issue.

[gattaca]

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[1010RD]

This problem is solved elsewhere by tribal retribution. In China it’s called guanxi. In America, Christian ideals solved the problem and honesty became the fiat of commerce.

[ConservingFreedom]

The first public-health movement in America was launched not by the government but by citizen-activists such as Lyman Beecher, the founder of the American Bible Society and a pastor who went on to form the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance in 1826. This enterprise became known as the Temperance Movement--and it worked. Within one generation, alcoholic consumption in America fell by two-thirds.

That's the only liberty-respecting model for fighting consensual vices.