A testament to freedom.

By Zilvinas Salenas

March 11, 2020 - Thirty years ago, on March 11, 1990, Lithuania unilaterally declared independence from the Soviet Union. More precisely, it declared that the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, enabled by secret agreements between the Soviets and Nazi Germany, was unlawful, and restored the independent Lithuania of 1918. Latvia and Estonia soon followed.

This set off a chain of events that, together with the Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) and an attempted military coup in Russia (August 1991), led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Just like that, the evil empire was no more.

By V.F. via TheChicagoEconomist.com

March 17, 2020 - I’m beginning to believe the current “pandemic” is perhaps just the latest contrived “enemy of the state”. An opportunity taken by Western governments that have, over the past 20 or 30 years, gotten bolder in their willingness to fabricate fear to secure a political end. Political ends are always about greater control, corruption, and ultimately, cover-ups.

Calls mayor's mandate unconstitutional.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (PNN) - March 15, 2020 - The owner of Kid Rock's Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N' Roll Steakhouse in Nashville said he is refusing to follow Mayor John Cooper's plan to shut down all bars in the city’s tourist hot-spot Lower Broadway during the coronavirus scare. After a video of a packed bar went viral overnight, the Metro Board of Health approved a plan to shut down all bars in Davidson County, including the honky-tonks in downtown Nashville. The Tennessee Department of Health reported 39 cases of coronavirus in the state, with 17 in Davidson County.

By Jacob G. Hornberger

March 9, 2020 - Central to the idea of a welfare state is the notion of the “safety net”. The idea is that a free society is much like walking the high wire. High wire walkers sometimes fall, hit the ground, and die, but not if they have a safety net. If they fall, they fall into the safety net and live another day.

The free society, it is said, operates much the same way. People fall on hard times, are unable to pay their bills, and die of starvation. A welfare-state safety net, it is argued, ensures that they survive and live another day.

However, the safety-net argument is fallacious, both from a moral standpoint and a practical standpoint.

EVROS, Greece (PNN) - March 7, 2020 - The farmers and pensioners wore black clothes and heavy boots, imitating Greece’s special forces, and trod along a rural road on a night patrol looking for migrants trying to cross the northern land border with Turkey. “We’ll get you next time!” they shouted at a small group of men who had made it over and fled.

March 6, 2020 - I’ve long admired the beauty of the Declaration of Independence’s language. The Constitution for the United States made a half-hearted effort to establish restrictions on the government. My only editorial issue with these documents is that property rights weren’t clearly articulated. Life and Liberty, certainly. The Pursuit of Happiness; all good. But the link between life and property was not adequately drawn. It wasn’t mentioned at all.

LONDON, England (PNN) - March 11, 2020 - The human race is in grave ­danger. Thousands of people are showing severe symptoms already and there is no known cure.

No, not coronavirus, but sheer bloody stupidity.

Never have so many brain cells been sacrificed on the altar of toilet paper fever. Come on people, what is that about?

By Paul Rosenberg

March 3, 2020 - The good news about ignorance is that it sets us free from mental chains. Now, to be clear, what I'm talking about here is accepting and admitting our ignorance. This is essential if we want to actually know things, as opposed to making a show of knowing things. I can tell you from personal experience that it really works. I gained the habit of admitting my ignorance (almost advertising it) back in the early 1980s, and that habit has helped me toward more understanding and discovery than I'd be able to itemize.

Nigel Farage compares Brexit to America breaking free in 1776.

LONDON, England (PNN) - February 28, 2020 - Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Nigel Farage said that the Union Jack is now a “symbol of liberty and of breaking free of this globalist project.”

by Brent Johnson

It has become accepted as a necessary function of our government: Homeland Security. The new massive Department of Homeland Security, created by an Act of Congress, has already attracted countless lobbyists, all vying for billions of dollars in DHS appropriations. (By the way, did you know that Homeland Security was supposed to cost nothing; it was supposed to simply be a reorganization of already existing budgets? So much for government promises).

But what exactly does it mean to secure our homeland?