If you don't know, you need to start learning about it. This is one law that I strongly believe Congress will screw up in a big way, and I'm not going to sit quietly like I did with the Patriot Act. I'm almost convinced that only people who have indifference or contempt for American ideals like liberty and freedom would support this law. Go to Wikipedia today, you will be given info...

Aside from kooky Ron Paul, all the Republican candidates, as well as President Obama himself, have a very un-American attitude to freedom.

The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity. So speaks the first few lines of our constitution. They should be enshrined in

A low key get together at Samizdata HQ this year... The finest pig, heavily smoked, glazed with honey and infused with cloves......your hostess, with assorted Central European Fire Water...... and your host, about to gorge on splendiferous smoked pig and other delightful haram joys Wishing all all friends of liberty a prosperous New Year. Buy gold and drink the very finest grog....

It may be Christmas, Cthulhumas or Whatevermas for you.. but Samizdata wishes all friends of liberty peace and prosperity over the festive season and for the coming New Year....

Domenico Losurdo, the author of Liberalism: A Counter-History, tells spiked that the principle of liberty continues to be too important to be left in the hands of liberals.

In Washington DC, anti-bullying campaigners want to restrict ‘offensive speech’ in public. That would be a disaster for liberty and progress.

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in ...

So, a company notes that its natural food product has scientifically documented positive health effects... and a bunch of underhanded bureaucrats underhandedly silences them: Quote of the Day: "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent." - Justice Louis D. Brandeis Only an organization as evil as the FDA could manage to...

A Dutch proposal to ban kosher and halal slaughter represents another assault on religious freedom in Europe.