Freedom

Bye-bye.

July 28, 2008

More of our freedoms evaporated this week (courtesy our servant government, our elected officials who took the oath of office to uphold the Constitution). Did you kiss them? Will you miss them? (Your freedoms, not your congresspeople.) From Freedom Works: Hidden deep in Senator Christopher Dodd’s 630-page Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision that [...]

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How I came to be a NAL (the L part)

April 29, 2008

I am part of a very, VERY small group, the New Age Libertarans. My husband jokes that I and my two sisters are the only members of this oxymoronic covey. I think that explaining how this came to be so is worth a post or two. First came the political persuasion. *** When I teach [...]

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The Handmaid’s Tale Book Tour

December 10, 2007

I first read The Handmaid’s Tale in the mid-1990s, the summer I met the man who would become my husband. Roger was getting ready to teach it to his high school students, but he never got the opportunity. The book was challenged by a parent, and though Roger won the case, the chance to teach [...]

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Dystopia — coming soon to a country near you?

December 6, 2007

The Barren Bi+ches Book Brigade is gearing up to discuss Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale next week. But this post is only tangentially about the book and mostly about what may already be happening to unsuspecting US citizens. Published in 1985, The Handmaid’s Tale is the story of a new society created when religious zealots [...]

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