A discussion on the Common Law as it applies to Illinois

Here is a Power Point pre­sen­ta­tion I used when I spoke at the Illi­nois Lib­er­tar­ian Party Con­ven­tion in 2006. My speech focused on the Com­mon Law, and how it is still oper­a­tive in Illi­nois. Offi­cials often por­tray indi­vid­u­als who invoke the Com­mon Law as being fringe, patriot or mili­tia rad­i­cals;it gets bet­ter. Read on…

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Understanding “Peace Officer” vs. “Law Enforcement Officer”

Not long ago all law enforce­ment offi­cers were referred to as “Peace Offi­cers,” but a tran­si­tion has slowly set in, in which now all peace offi­cers have become known as “Law Enforce­ment Offi­cers.” Is this just seman­tics in title, or is there really a dif­fer­ence? That is the sub­ject of this addi­tion to my “Under­stand­ing” series “by Ron Bran­son” on var­i­ous items of pub­lic ser­vice. Read on…

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Common Law in Illinois

Here is a Power Point pre­sen­ta­tion I used when I spoke at the Illi­nois Lib­er­tar­ian Party Con­ven­tion in 2006. My speech focused on the Com­mon Law, and how it is still oper­a­tive in Illi­nois. Offi­cials often por­tray indi­vid­u­als who invoke the Com­mon Law as being fringe, patriot or mili­tia rad­i­cals;it gets bet­ter. Read on…

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A Sunday Morning Rant

Good morn­ing newslet­ter sub­scribers. Feel free to delete this willy-nilly as my mood is at present acer­bic and this com­mu­niqué’ will con­vey such. The impe­tus for this dia­tribe stems from my watch­ing news spewed by the corporate-controlled media. There are peo­ple car­ry­ing signs, com­plain­ing, whin­ing, plead­ing; as well as busi­nessesit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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Preparing for civil unrest

By Claire Wolfe The most remark­able thing about civil unrest is that there hasn’t been more of it. Politi­cians are mak­ing a hash of this country—and much of the rest of the civ­i­lized world. We know it. They know it. They know we know it. But we don’t feel weit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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A commentary on the delusion of independence

I had promised myself that I would not send a mes­sage to this list on Inde­pen­dence Day due to the fact that I find myself in low spir­its when reflect­ing on the state of our nation, but I did not promise that I would not send a mes­sage AFTER Inde­pen­denceit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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My Cup of Tea

My Cup of Tea Unless you have been in a coma, it is hard to escape all the talk about the Tea Party phe­nom­ena. Peo­ple are get­ting tired of gov­ern­ment waste and abuse. Frankly, I’m sur­prised it took this long. The Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence states that, “…and accord­ingly all expe­ri­ence hathit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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Cops: Public Servants or Fascist Pigs? (Part 1)

It was not many years ago when I con­sid­ered myself a sup­porter of “law enforce­ment.” (I made dona­tions, had the F.O.P. and Sheriff’s depart­ment stick­ers and every­thing.) Cops were, I believed, the good guys, pro­tect­ing the inno­cent and impos­ing jus­tice upon evil­do­ers. Oh sure, I knew there was cor­rup­tion hereit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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Citizenship created for slaves ala the 14th Amendment

GOVERNMENTS ARE INSTITUTED AMONG MEN, DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED!“ Guess who are con­sent­ing to be Gov­erned ? Answer: Vot­ers, 14th Amend­ment cit­i­zens of the United States. If you don’t claim to be one of them, don’t pre­tend you are one them, guess what ?it gets bet­ter. Read on…

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The Origins of Birth Registration – It’s not what you think.

  The Sheppard-Towner Mater­nity Act was “for the pro­mo­tion, the wel­fare and hygiene of mater­nity and infancy and for other pur­poses,” It was passed with a vote of 63 to 7, and by the house with a vote of 279 to 39, and was finally signed by the pres­i­dent andit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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Your Right of Defense Against Unlawful Arrest

Your Right of Defense Against Unlaw­ful Arrest These are not my words. These are the words uttered by the courts within the United States and other States. I am not advo­cat­ing vio­lence or pro­mot­ing the unjust tak­ing of life. As a mat­ter of fact, I am morally opposed to anyit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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My Confession to being a Homegrown Terrorist

My Con­fes­sion to being a Home­grown Ter­ror­ist To the United States House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, The United States Sen­ate, and the Pres­i­dent of the United States: Pur­suant to the Enrolled Bill H.R. 1955, (Short Title being “Vio­lent Rad­i­cal­iza­tion and Home­grown Ter­ror­ism Pro­tec­tion Act of 2007″, passed by the United States Hou­seit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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Fat, dumb, and happy in Amerika.

Let’s not mince words. The “Great Amer­i­can Demo­c­ra­tic Exper­i­ment” has failed. “In what way?” you ask, shift­ing your gaze from your wide-screen plasma ejac­u­lat­ing NASCAR, foot­ball, and “So You Think You Can Dance” to address your tat­tooed, bel­liger­ent, corporate-branded, entitlement-minded chil­dren. You look about your over­priced, over­sized, over-mortgaged home andit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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King for a day.

I intended to write on this topic sooner, but wanted to see how Mar­tin Luther King, Jr. was remem­bered over “his” hol­i­day. For one day a year, we take time to rec­og­nize, acknowl­edge, honor, dis­miss, for­get, and deny a man that was mur­dered for stand­ing up for what he believed.it gets bet­ter. Read on…

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In defense of Mark Twain and the N word.

My black friends, of whom I have many, will under­stand this dia­tribe. Oppor­tunis­tic whites will use this to deflect their short­com­ings towards my char­ac­ter in hopes of min­i­miz­ing their fail­ings. Disin­gen­u­ous blacks will seize my words to fur­ther per­pet­u­ate more hate and divi­sive­ness. If you are a hate­ful, narrow-minded bigot then that is your mis­ery. If you are a sanc­ti­mo­nious oppor­tunist look­ing for a whine fac­tor then that is your prob­lem. For the ratio­nal and rea­son­able who rec­og­nize the world, and peo­ple, for what they are and refuse to be iden­ti­fied by the hate­ful, igno­rant words of oth­ers, then I say wel­come! Remem­ber the word “nig­ger” for what it is. A symp­tom, a dis­ease, a defect, and iden­ti­fier of hate and igno­rance. We can’t hide from the ugli­ness in the world, but we can real­ize it for what it is and choose not to par­take in its dehu­man­iz­ing effects. Read on…

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Shimkus teaching the Constitution.…sagacious sanctimony.

Eliz­a­beth A. Lehnerer photo U.S. Rep. John Shimkus (R-Collinsville) dis­cussed the Con­sti­tu­tion and his job in Con­gress with stu­dents at Holy Cross Lutheran School in Collinsville on Mon­day. Well, so much for an igno­rance defense. If only the kid­dies who were sub­jected to his con­trived exper­tise in the Con­sti­tu­tion knewit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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