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Fall of the Berlin Wall: November 9, 1989

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on 10 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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E. Wesley – Mackinac Center Intern

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A Jubilee for Liberty!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 24 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Two hundred and fifty years ago, someone was born who was destined to liberate millions, fated to beg for liberty before the most powerful in the world and created to ban slavery throughout the most expansive empire the world has yet seen.  Read more on Landmarks of Liberty.
E. Wesley – Mackinac Center Intern

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A Tribute to Witold Pilecki

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 20 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The video is self explanatory.  How much more ugly could dying for liberty get, or more tragic than to die at the hands of a fellow freedom fighter by betrayal?  The cost of liberty is great indeed.
E. Wesley – Mackinac Center Intern

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America’s Forgotten General

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on 7 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »

He was faster than Washington at forming a patriot army… He kept America alive through Valley Forge… He drove the British out of three states.  While Washington had help from France at Yorktown, he was truly alone.  August 7th marks the birth of perhaps America’s greatest general.  Read more on Landmarks of Liberty.
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A Knight for Liberty Is Condemned

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on 5 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »

August 5th, 1305: A hero of his country is betrayed, and marches to his execution.  His last defense is simple and true: “I can not be a traitor…”  Grieved beyond words, a whole nation rises up for its independence and a declaration of grievances is published.  Read more on Landmarks of Liberty.
E. Wesley- Mackinac [...]

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The Price is Right

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on 23 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Kurt Bouwhuis, Mackinac Center Intern
I was reading through The Road To Serfdom by F.A. Hayek last night, and stumbled across a fantastic passage:  “In a competitive society the prices we have to pay for a thing, the rate at which we can get one thing for another, depend on the quantities of other things of [...]

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Freedom in Iran

Posted in Current Comment, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 23 June 2009 | 2 Comments »

By D. Pontoppidan, Summer Fellow at the Mackinac Center
We’ve all seen what has been described as the “biggest unrest in Iran since 1979” unfold on television for the past week. What we haven’t seen, however, is the United States of America or President Barack Obama take an active stance in the conflict. So [...]

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794 Years Ago…

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on 15 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Per Scriptum,
E. Wesley — Mackinac Center Intern
June 15th should go down in history as a cornerstone in the freedom movement in the West. Although the Magna Carta didn’t apply to all men and women when first crafted, it implemented the concept of fundamental human rights into political reality. In the West, it was arguably the [...]

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Competiton in the Church

Posted in economics, tagged , , on 15 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As of late my view of economics has been narrowed by report after report of “$_____ billion appropriated for ______” and “$____million could be saved if we just_____” to strictly contain dollar amounts.  Liberty however is a basic human right not limited to the scope of the financial sector, and the need to economize can [...]

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Don’t Be Hasty

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on 9 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »

President Obama is starting to echo John Keating’s quote from The Dead Poet’s Society,
Now I want you to rip out that page. Go on, rip out the entire page. You heard me, rip it out. Rip it out!
 But this isn’t the introduction to a poetry book he’s asking us deface, no this would be the [...]

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GDP Correlated with Freedom

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on 3 July 2008 | 1 Comment »

Chart Provided by The Heritage Foundation

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