Remember the elections? I made the mistake of telling a friend I wasn't going to vote. She totally flipped out and told me, "Your HAVE to vote!" I asked her why and she just stared back at me for a few awkward seconds before rolling her eyes and turning away. It got me thinking about how successful our government has been in drumming their version of patriotism into our heads… regardless of how me will never admit it.
Read MoreIcelanders have always been framed in terms of their viking ancestors; strong, brave and independent. So in the wake of their government proving untrustworthy stewards of their country and their money, they decided to write a new constitution which places an emphasis on, you guessed it, free stuff. Here are some highlights from the national forum.
Read MoreThis is the latest incarnation of what started as an email thread between a handful of liberty-loving friends back in the late 90′s. After the 9/11 attacks, some of us began to feel our liberties, big and small, slipping away under the pressure of the GWOT. In the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, we decided to do something more structured, to try to, in some small way, preserve those liberties, large and small, that we still had left.
