Personal Liberty Digest

Latest From Wayne Allyn Root November 1, 2012 Christians Will Empower A Romney Landslide » This is my last commentary before Election Day, perhaps the most important day in modern American political history — the day we stop Barack Obama and defend capitalism. My prediction is a Mitt Romney landslide led by Christian and faith-based voters. More » Outside The Asylum God Forbid » Mormonism doesn't work for me. But here's the really cool part: I don't spend time thinking about LDS doctrine, nor do I have to. Mormons are welcome to believe whatever the heck they want; the last time I checked, that's the American (not to mention Constitutional) way.  More » Analysis Terror, Terror, Terror! » New York University students in a class on transnational terrorism cannot pass the course until they "hypothetically plan a terrorist attack" of their own, including details about location and how they would carry out their dastardly plans. More » Personal Liberty News Republicans Send Seventh Letter To Obama Inquiring About Benghazi » Senate Republicans said Wednesday that the Administration of Barack Obama is failing miserably in answering questions about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, as many pundits speculate that the whole story could damn the President's re-election chances. More » Judge: 4th Amendment Doesn't Bar 24/7 Video On Private Land » A Federal judge has ruled that it is not a violation of the 4th Amendment for police to install surveillance cameras on a person's private property if they expect a crime is being committed. More » Single Junk-Food Meal Can Damage Arteries » A single junk-food meal rich in saturated fat is detrimental to the health of the arteries, researchers in Canada said. A study found that after participants ate a junk-food meal, their arteries dilated 24 percent less than they did when in the fasting state. More » Book Review Rethinking The American Union For The Twenty-First Century edited by Donald Livingston Has America grown too large? Is she too divided? Has increasing centralization pulled her so far away from the vision of the Founding Fathers that they would be looking in the wrong direction to even see her? And what was their plan for preventing all this from happening in the first place? All of these questions and more are considered in Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century. This book is a collection of seven essays that cover the idea that America has grown too large, too indebted and too divided to maintain a republican form of government, and that it is time to separate the Nation into a group of independent federations. It covers the issue from the historical aspect of the Nation's founding and how the Founders felt about secession, to the legal ramifications of secession, to the practical aspect of how a divided Nation might work. More »