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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

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Our goal is to positively influence our readers by presenting accurate, reliable information regarding the formative stages of our country as well as current national events. About Lux Libertas...

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  By John Frisby • May 17th, 2010 • Category: Censorship, Civil Liberty, Ethics, Government Waste, Opinion, Politics, Presidency

May 17, 2010
By Chuck Roger
The President warns us that Americans must beware of “the craziest claims” and “arguments” in which “information becomes a distraction” that puts “pressures” on “our democracy.” What was behind Barack Obama’s recent remarks to the graduating class of Hampton University? What “information” must Americans fear?

FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd foretold [...]

  By John Frisby • Dec 30th, 2009 • Category: Censorship, Economics, Editorial, Ethics, Government Waste, Politics

Posted 12/29/2009 06:50 PM ET

Fiscal Follies: While Americans are distracted by the holidays and a failed terror attack, Washington is giving another blank check to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Say, isn’t this how we got into trouble before?
When Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two bankrupt, government-sponsored mortgage companies, were first bailed out in [...]

  By John Frisby • Dec 12th, 2009 • Category: Censorship, Civil Liberty, Ethics, Global Warming, Politics

Dec 11, 2009
by Mike Flynn
A Stanford Professor has used United Nation security officers to silence a journalist asking him “inconvenient questions”  during a press briefing at the climate change conference in Copenhagen.
Professor Stephen Schneider’s assistant requested armed UN security officers who held film maker Phelim McAleer, ordered him to stop filming and prevented further [...]

  By John Frisby • Dec 10th, 2009 • Category: Censorship, Civil Liberty, Ethics, Government Waste, Opinion, Politics

By Michael Barone (Archive) · Thursday, December 10, 2009
“Knowledge is becoming more specialized and more dispersed, while government power is becoming more concentrated,” writes economist Arnold Kling in his new book, “Unchecked and Unbalanced.” “This discrepancy creates the potential for government to become increasingly erratic and, as a result, less satisfying to individuals.”
“Less satisfying [...]

  By John Frisby • Dec 2nd, 2009 • Category: Censorship, Civil Liberty, Economics, Ethics, Opinion, Politics

By Jacob Sullum (Archive) · Wednesday, December 2, 2009
In 2006, Congress passed a law that instructed the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Board to write regulations aimed at preventing “unlawful Internet gambling.” But Congress did not define “unlawful Internet gambling,” and neither did the regulators.
Instead, IT issued rules requiring financial institutions to adopt [...]

  By John Frisby • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Censorship, Civil Liberty, Ethics, Media Bias, Politics

By Hans Nichols

Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama’s outgoing communications director, Anita Dunn, renewed her attacks against Fox News as she praised the “investigative journalism” of Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and said MSNBC isn’t a biased cable news network.
She criticized Fox for using edited footage of a rally to make it appear that opposition [...]

  By John Frisby • Oct 31st, 2009 • Category: Censorship, Civil Liberty, Ethics, Judiciary, Opinion, Politics, Religion/Faith, The Constitution

by Forum Contributor  
FOXNews.com
October 29, 2009
Trevor Keever, who says he was fired by Home Depot for wearing wearing an American flag pin that said “One nation under God, indivisible” talks with Fox Forum about what happened to him. His lawyer also explains why she and her co-counsel took his case.  

TREVOR KEEVER — IN HIS OWN [...]

  By John Frisby • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: Censorship, Civil Liberty, Economics, Ethics, International Relations, Opinion, Politics

As the state-run economy hits the skids, the government responds with a crackdown on the free press.
Oct 25, 2009
By Mary Anistasia O’Grady
One way a president can boost poll numbers in a bad economy is to wrest control of the central bank and start printing lots of pesos. There’s nothing like cheap financing to restore the [...]

  By John Frisby • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: Censorship, Civil Liberty, Ethics, Politics

Oct 25, 2009
Peter Barnes, Senior Washington Correspondent

White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met with five chief executive officers of top companies at a dinner Wednesday to discuss the economy, bank lending conditions and other topics, a government official said.
Two sources said Jarrett and Geithner met with Frank Blake, Chairman and CEO [...]

  By John Frisby • Oct 25th, 2009 • Category: Censorship, Civil Liberty, Ethics, Media Bias, Opinion, Politics, Presidency

October 23, 2009
The Obama administration tried and failed Thursday to manipulate the White House news pool into isolating and excluding Fox News from interviewing “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg. Are you concerned that the Obama administration is threatening freedom of the press?
Are you concerned that the Obama administration is threatening freedom of the press?

I’m angry. Regardless [...]

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