In last Friday’s open comments forum, the topic was liberty-themed music. Here are the songs that readers of FREE WHITEWATER suggested, with one bonus song that I’ll add tonight. Bonus song — Marilyn McCoo sings the words of the Declaration of Independence.
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Music Monday: Miles Davis, Summertime, from Porgy and Bess
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Midweek Music: Miles Davis, Concierto de Aranjuez from Sketches of Spain
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Holiday, Music
Kenosha Police Department’s Twelve Days of Christmas
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In Kenosha, Wisconsin, the police department has recorded and uploaded to YouTube their rendition of The Twelve Days of Christmas. I think is very funny and clever, light-hearted and creative. I have been a critic of police leadership in Whitewater, Wisconsin, but I have never doubted the necessary and demanding role that officers play in…
Libertarians, Music
Who Killed Bambi?
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Music Monday: She Blinded Me with Science
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Music Monday: Norman Borlaug Rap
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Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and Nobel Laureate, passed away last week, aged ninety-five. Borlaug’s contributions to agriculture led to a Green Revolution, enabling countless millions to be fed, who otherwise would have starved. These efforts also refuted doomsday contentions that humanity could not feed itself; Borlaug’s dedication and genius trumped pessimism and anti-growth pronouncements. For…
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Music Monday: The Kinks — Twentieth Century Man
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The video has lyrics as captions, but I will add them as text, too. Quick note — I disagree with the Kinks about the police: Very few people in America are actually trigger happy. Far, far more common is the conformity that middling bureaucrats and meddlesome politicians expect. This is the age of machinery, A…
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Music Monday: The Beatles —Taxman
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Music Monday: The Kinks — Sunny Afternoon
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Libertarians, Music
Music Monday: Oingo Boingo — Capitalism
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Here’s a weekly feature, offering a post of a libertarian-themed song, each Monday. Here is Oingo Boingo, with Capitalism. I posted it once before, and it’s my favorite Oingo song. The video is from AraMiraBlack. (Lyrics appear below.) There’s nothing wrong with Capitalism There’s nothing wrong with free enterprise Don’t try to make me feel…
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Music Monday: Rush — Something for Nothing
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Here’s a weekly feature, offering a post of a libertarian-themed song, each Monday. Here is Rush, with Something for Nothing. Lyrics appear below — enjoy! Waiting for the winds of change To sweep the clouds away Waiting for the rainbows end To cast its gold your way Countless ways You pass the days Waiting for…
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Music Monday: BoDeans — Closer to Free
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I’ll begin a new feature, with posts of libertarian-themed songs, each Monday. Here are the BoDeans, with Closer to Free. Lyrics appear below — enjoy! Everybody wants to live How they wanna live And everybody wants to love Like they wanna love And everybody wants to be Closer to Free Everybody wants respect Just a…