Liberty
This section of mikechurch.com is dedicated to promoting the cause of Liberty and will feature content generated to that end on the Mike Church Show.
This will include interviews, Post Show Show segments, interviews with prominent guests and much more.
We also will be adding a substantial amount of works in the public domain on the subject. Please check back often for updates.
Mandeville, LA - Since the subject of "Profit and Plunder" keeps
coming up on the radio show and since I keep referring to Bastiat's
brilliant essay on the subject, I have gathered the open source material
from Bastiat's works and am posting part of his book "The Law" here to
in form listeners...
I discovered Austrian Economics through my reading of Freidrich von Hayek. At the time I read Hayek (twice!) there wasn't an "Austrian" I could recite by name, now thanks to the Von Mises institute and vonmises.org I can recite a lot of names and also a lot of Austrian theory. Free markets are the greatest methods of exchange in civil societies and have brought more prosperity to the world in just a few centuries than all the divine rights of kings and the schemes of central planners through the ages.
I am often asked the question: Mike, if you're so sure there is no hope for the Constitution and the Union why don't YOU just give up!?" And teh answer is "just because the fight seems unwinnable that doesn't mean that it is worth fighting. That's where the "Brave Horatius at the bridge" poem comes
In Congress, 6 July 1775
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms
This declaration was read in part and discussed on the Mike Church Show, 16 March, 2010 in response from Congress' threat to "deem" the Health Care Choices Act of 2009 as "The law of the land"
A declaration by the representatives of the united colonies of North America, now met in Congress at Philadelphia, setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms.
If it was possible for men, who exercise their reason to believe, that the divine Author of our existence intended a part of the human race to hold an absolute property in...
Mike Church Provided On-Air Commentary of this Document - Listen To it Inside
Bologna
November 4, 1866
Sir,
The very kind letter which Mrs. Lee wrote to my wife last winter encouraged me to hope that you will forgive my presuming to address you, and that you will not resent as an intrusion a letter from an earnest and passionate lover of the cause whose glory and whose strength you were.
I have been requested to furnish private counsel in American affairs for the guidance of the editors of a weekly Review which is to begin at the New Year, and which will be conducted by men who are followers of Mr. Gladstone. You are aware, no doubt, that Mr. Gladstone was in the minority of Lord Palmerston's cabinet who wished to accept the French Emperor's proposal to mediate in the American war.
Liberty
