Archive for June 8th, 2012

Signs ObamaCare May Quash Self-Insurance for Small Businesses

Signs ObamaCare May Quash Self-Insurance for Small Businesses

Imagine that, in order to increase competition among grocery stores, the government created local farmers’ markets all across the country. Anyone could sell food within these farmers’ markets — including the grocery stores. But when the grocery stores refused to participate, the government enacted regulations to force them to do so. Thus, what was meant to encourage competition instead became the means of suppressing it.

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No Law to Contradict the Law of Nature

No Law to Contradict the Law of Nature

Some food for thought, in our modern age where morally bankrupt legislators, judges and other officials force immoral laws on the people: Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these. There are, it is true, a great number of indifferent points, in which both the divine law and the natural leave a man at his own liberty; but which are found necessary for the benefit of society to be restrained within certain limits. And herein it is that human laws have their greatest force and efficacy: for, with regard to such points as are not indifferent, human laws are only declaratory of, and act in subordination to the former. To instance in the case of murder: this is expressly forbidden by the divine, and demonstrably by the natural […]

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Andrew Jackson sculpture in Lafayette Park (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

The Rock Upon Which Our Republic Rests

On JUNE 8, 1845, “Old Hickory” died. Wounded by a sword during the Revolutionary War, he later fought the Seminole Indians and, in the War of 1812, defeated the British in New Orleans. He was governor of the Florida Territory, and is credited with proposing the name “Tennessee” at that State’s first convention. His name was Andrew Jackson.

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