Notes On Liberty

Spontaneous thoughts on a humble creed

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A true tragedy. Africa didn’t have to go the nationalist-socialist route of Nkrumah and it can still change course today https://t.co/MkF7vhk7TP

[Bruce Rosenstein @brucerosenstein]

“Nkrumah is the most widely admired person on the African continent today, surpassing Nelson Mandela, who is much better known in the West.” - Howard W. French in his new @deborahkalb #book #author Q&A
@hofrench @LiverightPub
https://t.co/CSmzEBPIcQ

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[Brent Skorup @bskorup]

Americans are getting a peek at the odd world of broadcast law. "I dislike what Kimmel said—but how can regulators threaten TV stations? Isn't that a free speech violation?"
It should be. But, because of a 1943 SCOTUS decision, broadcasters operate at the sufferance of the FCC.

[Federico G. M. Sosa Valle @fgmsv]

The link to the essay on “Concurrent Currencies in an Interstate Federalism: An Institutional Framework.”: https://t.co/hL2UkO3Iw8

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"Rock concert" painting by Soviet rock star Viktor Tsoi, USSR, 1980s

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Interesting read

[Isonomia Quarterly @IsonomiaQ]

Classical Liberalism and the Military: Toward A Fruitful Relationship https://t.co/2IQKmiRGjj

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.”

— Milton Friedman

[Jasper de Groot @jasperdegrt]

Op dit moment wordt @LavieJanRoos nog steeds vervolgd voor een grap die hij maakte in Roddelpraat terwijl Bob Vylan gewoon mag optreden in Doornroosje vanavond.

We hebben rechtssysteem voor links en rechtssysteem voor rechts in ons land. De een mag alles, de ander niets.

#freejanroos

[Ethan "Wizzard" Blevins @ethanwb]

Nothing exposes the base hypocrisy of the political creature like free speech.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"Happy Yeltsin Supermarket Day!" https://t.co/zWqIRGeQ5H via @CatoInstitute

36 years ago today, pudding pops defeated communism. Celebrate accordingly.

[robert aleksic | @[email protected] @robert_aleksic]

Lep tekst koji nije predug, a daje lep pregled razvoja ideje liberalizma, kojom danas mnogi mašu iz sebičnosti, bez previše razmišljanja i razumevanja za šta se ta ideja u stvari zalaže... https://t.co/G2C9OxHVs9

[Brandon Christensen @TCrackCrack]

Bummer, but there is a liberal/libertarian quarterly out there that’s been quietly putting out great stuff: https://t.co/dKBIW2zBse

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Worth a gander

[Isonomia Quarterly @IsonomiaQ]

Classical Liberalism and the Military: Toward A Fruitful Relationship https://t.co/2IQKmiRGjj

[Brandon Christensen @TCrackCrack]

New from Iso Q. If you read one thing today, make it this essay from Barry Scott Zellen on #geopolitics in the Arctic!

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Worth a gander (if you can get through all the ads...)

[Federico G. M. Sosa Valle @fgmsv]

Concurrent Currencies in an Interstate Federalism: An Institutional Framework – Isonomia Quarterly https://t.co/hL2UkO3Iw8

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Peep game

[Isonomia Quarterly @IsonomiaQ]

Classical Liberalism and the Military: Toward A Fruitful Relationship https://t.co/2IQKmiRGjj

[Brandon Christensen @TCrackCrack]

The Dangerous Delusion: An Unhealthy Obsession with China Clouds American Arctic Policy https://t.co/3Nl0jw67vx

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Not a single Bible verse in this whole tweetstorm. Smarter heads will prevail, both in believing camps and independent ones…

[Larry Alex Taunton @LarryTaunton]

Phil,

You are like every wolf in sheep's clothing that I have encountered in the church. You're all about tone, not Truth. "Jesus, let's not turn over any tables. It's offensive to the moneylenders."

What you call disparagement is righteous anger. I am outraged at the annihilation of the unborn, the mutilation of children, and the murder of innocents. But for you, it's about tone. I do not treat evil opinions with respect. I call them out, debate them, mock them, and endeavor to demolish the arguments (2 Corinthians 10:5) because often those promoting them feast on the blood of innocents. But you be you, Phil.

I am fascinated by the fact that you immediately brought race into the discussion, a topic I had neither mentioned nor inferred. And you did it in the typical condescending manner of the Leftist who thinks non-whites need your help -- and that's because, at bottom, you are a racist. Where you see skin color -- I am incidentally, severely colorblind -- I see those who know Christ and those who do not; the least of these and those who oppress them; and those who obey the law and those who break it.

The Left has encouraged violence of every sort and, unsurprisingly, yet another innocent was murdered in cold blood. The murderer was, it seems, a typical American kid from a typical American home who was radicalized, weaponized, and sent out as an assassin to do exactly what Democrats wanted him to do. Do not be deceived. They want more of the same. A wife has been widowed, her children made fatherless, and those parts of the world where conscience has not yet been killed mourn and are justly angry. Angry, Phil. A proper sentiment in these times. But what do you do? You take to Twitter to lecture Christians on their tone and, like the serpent in the Garden, to ask leading questions with evil as their end: "Did God actually say...?"

You can engage me, Phil, in an open debate. But you cannot engage me as a "follower of Christ" because you are not a follower of Christ whatever your former commitments might have been. You and your cohort of Russell Moore and David French are evil men. Indeed, you all remind me a quotation from C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters:

"The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices."

That describes the lot of you perfectly. Possessed of your own self-righteousness, emanating arrogance built on theological deception, and supported by those who use you to demoralize God's people, you are apostates at best -- that is, if you ever believed the Gospel at all. You are all the Church's equivalent of Tokyo Rose.

You say that you liked my book The Faith of Christopher Hitchens, thank you, but that you cannot reconcile the author of that book with my "Twitter persona." Your failure to do so, Phil, is because you didn't understand the book. My relationship with Christopher was made possible because of a mutual respect built on authenticity: I didn't pretend to be something other than a Christian and he didn't pretend to be something other than an atheist. There's honesty in that. He knew, and appreciated, that my concern for his soul was real, and that I engaged him to that end. Christopher liked that. He would have (rightly) thought me a fraud had I done otherwise. That's why I know that he would have liked Charlie Kirk very much. But he reviled people like you because you are snakes. Worse, you're a smug snake.

As an aside, I once shared a stage with Russell Moore at an apologetics conference in, I think, 2007. Guess the focus of his talk that night? The evils of Veggie Tales. I recall this line from his presentation: "I would rather people watch Desperate Housewives than Veggie Tales." Check the tape. I was your defender that night. Moore has come a long way since then, justifying, like you, every evil Democrat agenda. But we shouldn't be surprised: we now know that he was a paid operative. Moore is a charlatan.

So, if you find my words not to your liking, it isn't because I am out for clicks, as you suggest, or motivated by some other nefarious reason. It is because I believe in the Gospel to the marrow of my bones and I am outraged by those who prey on the vulnerable. That's you and your ilk in spite of your many claims of concern for them. I watched you in a podcast talking about open border and illegals in the country with the confidence of a man who knew the subject intimately. But it's easy, isn't it, in the safe confines of your life? I was in the jungles of South and Central America and in the cartel towns engaging these illegals and those who trafficked them. I don't recall seeing you there.

And, yes, I meant every word that I wrote. To reiterate, if you are a Democrat today, you are evil, stupid, or both. The Democrat Party has always been the party of slavery. History has established that fact. But now they are the party of murder. They encourage murder, fund murder, and revel in murder. Do all of its 60 million (according to you) members do that? No. But they are enablers of it. They turn a blind eye to it just as millions turned a blind eye to their Jewish neighbors as they were dragged into the streets and sent to death camps. You are one of them, Phil. You have chosen to align yourself with reprobates who have denied God in every conceivable way.

In closing, I want to be clear that I make no claims of moral superiority to you or anyone else. I am saved by the blood of Jesus Christ alone. But I know very well His call upon my life, and it is, in part, to demolish the insidious arguments of people like you and to give voice to the voiceless. And no matter your pretensions to the contrary, you speak on behalf of power and the establishment. I suspect you are paid to do so. But all the threads of USAID and Soros monies haven't yet been traced.

Final question: How many people have tried to kill you for your opinions? I've had more than a few. Twice this year alone. So, too, a number of my colleagues. Charlie, sadly, was just the latest in a long line of murder attempts and, to our great grief, his outcome was different than our own.

You are an enemy of God, Phil, and therefore of His people. I hope you will repent.

If you want to debate me publicly, I will arrange it. But I should be honest with you: I don't respect your opinions and I revile what you represent. I can have -- and have had -- genuine respect for a declared enemy. But I have none for those who pretend to be "of us" when they manifestly are nothing of the sort.