I have never supported a ‘big-drinking’ culture. Alcohol is best consumed moderately, enjoyed leisurely, with agreeable company. Wisconsin has seen more than her share of drinking tragedies, made far worse by stubborn insistence that, if only enforcement becomes severe enough, we’ll be able to stop further tragedies. We won’t. No level of enforcement tried or…
Liberty
Freedom of Speech, Liberty, Politics
Video from a Janesville Protest, 3.29.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
Freedom of Speech, Liberty, Politics, Wisconsin
Scenes from a Janesville Protest, 3.29.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
Government Spending, Liberty, Politics, University
Thirty-Five Million’s Not the Answer
by JOHN ADAMS •
You may have heard that UW-Whitewater’s in line for thirty-five million in construction spending. All those millions, but still a march of UW-Whitewater professors to Madison to protest the governor’s budget. (I posted on the trek, as reported in the Janesville Gazette, on March 23rd at Daily Wisconsin.) Why would they walk all that way?…
Beautiful Whitewater, City, Freedom of Speech, Liberty
What Democracy Looks Like
by JOHN ADAMS •
Last Friday, there was a protest rally in Whitewater, along Main Street, and over one-hundred fifty people attended. See, Scenes from a Whitewater Rally, 3.18.11. That’s a large number for Whitewater — especially on a Friday evening as work was ending — and larger in ways worthy of mention. First, the pro-union gathering was one…
Freedom of Speech, Liberty
‘Thugs,’ ‘Pickets,’ and Other Absurd Claims
by JOHN ADAMS •
Whitewater’s tired, stodgy town fathers, and chief bureaucrat, aren’t really conservative or liberal: they’re simply reactionary. So when a few working people came to town, to protest lawfully near a politician’s house, one read about this as though Whitewater were besieged by barbarians by pickets(!) from Milwaukee. That’s Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Madison, Wisconsin — as…
Economy, Government Spending, Liberty, School District
Extended Contracts for the Whitewater School District
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over a month ago, I wrote a first take on the politics of cuts to state shared revenue. See, Cuts to State Shared Revenue: Whitewater’s Politics of It All (First Take). Much has happened since then. Of the school district, I noted previously that There are so many better and higher tasks than labor disputes,…
Freedom of Speech, Liberty
Scenes from a Whitewater Rally, 3.18.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
Liberty
A Rally in Whitewater on Friday, March 18th
by JOHN ADAMS •
Here’s a chance to exercise the freedom of assembly in defense of the freedom of association. On Friday, March 18th, there will be a rally at the Main Street bridge in Whitewater, near Cravath Lakefront followed by a town hall meeting at the Whitewater City Council chambers. Here’s more about the event, from a public…
Liberty
Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa on Freedom in the Middle East
by JOHN ADAMS •
Libertarians, Liberty
The Libertarian Position on Unions: In Support of Freedom of Association
by JOHN ADAMS •
For all the talk about where different groups stand on collective bargaining and the right of freedom of association, a bit of clarity on where Libertarians stand. (Not where conservatives or liberals think Libertarians stand, but where we truly and wholeheartedly stand.) Here’s a message from the chair of the LP, excerpts of which I…
Free Markets, Libertarians, Liberty
Lessons from Atlas Shrugged
by JOHN ADAMS •
Here’s a fine video about what the videographer learned from Atlas Shrugged. I’m a libertarian, rather than an Objectivist (as I’d guess the videographer is), but the video offers an appeal to both groups. (Libertarianism is a political view, of individual rights and limited government, and has no inherent suspicion of religion, as Objectivism does.…