Liberty and Tyranny
Another must have book.
Silly me. I refused to buy this book at Costco because it looked rather small and insignificant. Since I read rather fast, I figured it would be an hour read for me and the price per word was too high.
I even mentioned that to the librarian when my name finally hit the top of the wait list (which has been a long, long time.)
Well, I was wrong! Now I will go purchase a copy of my own. This book has way more substance than I expected.
7 comments:
How do you make time to go through an entire book? Except for the Good book, I don't think I've read an entire one since Frank Herbert's Dune and that was like 20 years ago!
You should read his book on the politicization of the judiciary, Men in Black. One of the best books on the Left's assault on our courts that is accessable to the general citizenry.
BlogProf- ah - one of the advantages of ADD. We can hyper-focus at times plus I read about 800 - 1000 words per minute with about 95% comprehension. However, I also have no patience with a boring book so some don't get finished or I skip to the end. heh
Mark - I pretty sure hubby read Men in Black. I will grab it at the library.
I'M pretty sure - dang - it's always with you....
I read that book a while ago. Loved it! I just finished common sense by glenn beck, which is an easy short book to read. Highly recommended as well. Husband is reading the 5000 year leap which is awesome, and I am halfway through 48 liberal lies by shweikart (sp?). Then I think i'm done readng for the summer. Too busy!!
Sean Hannity has been pushing this book for months now. I found it at Barnes and Noble...can't wait to read it.
St. Francis prayer your way for the knee surgery.
Hugs!
Well, I bought the book this weekend on your recommendation, and I have to say it was good, but I was surprised at how little he talked about the importance of family. His "Statist" take on liberalism didn't allow him to acknowledge that when it comes to marriage, family and the right to life, the government has a role in defending our social institutions and in protecting the life of the unborn. He got caught in his own ideology, and wound up not addressing the critical issues upon which the future of our civilization is predicated: the family and the right to life.
To be blunt, a libertarian order that preserves the culture of death is no better (and in fact may wind up being worse) than the current liberal order that embraces abortion on demand and other evils. One cannot demand natural rights for oneself and deny them to one's neighbor -- Lincoln understood this, it was his great conservative insight. In Lincoln's day, the natural right under attack was the natural right of liberty -- the right of each man to be free. In our day, the natural right under attack is the right to life -- the right of each person at each stage of his or her life to be free of the arbitrary deprivation of life by private caprice without the due process of law.
Without the preservation of all our natural rights -- the rights to life, liberty and property guaranteed to each person in our nation by our Constitution's 5th and 14th Amendments, no decent civil society is possible, no truly free social order is possible. All that will be is a predator-state, with the strong and the privileged feasting upon the weak and depersonalized. It will not matter whether such an order is cloaked in the rhetoric of freedom or not. It will not be a conservative order, and it will not be a free society. It will be a tyranny.
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