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Focus on Liberty
By: Caleb Roberts, OCPA Intern
Another Independence Day has arrived and for the 232nd time in our history, we Americans will take a
breath from daily life and relish the gift of liberty bestowed upon us by our Creator, and protected by our government. At our inception, words
such as "life", "liberty", and the "pursuit of happiness" forged the foundational trinity of a nation of insurmountable blessing. Over
two-hundred years later, those words have found residence in the deepest and dearest parts of our being. This, too, is an election year and
consequently, the public air is flowing with these same words issued from two men as they strive to gain our trust. READ MORE!
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Cherishing Meese: The Man and the
Mediator
By Patrick B. McGuigan
In a news story printed the day after Edwin Meese III resigned as U.S. attorney general in 1988, reporters for the Washington Post quoted a cluster
of liberal critics--and me. Proudly dissenting from all the smears on his good name, I called him "the greatest attorney general of the United States
in my lifetime."
I believed it then, and believe it now. Meese was a magnificent advocate of limited government, traditional morality, "originalism" in legal
interpretation, and the president (and before that, governor) he served. He went toe to toe, without rancor, to counter the liberal nostrums of
Justice William Brennan.
Yet, it is Meese the man I most cherish. Despite the vicious calumny he faced from the mainstream media throughout the 1980s, he remained cheerful
and accessible to the press and the people. He was without the pretense that often comes with power. READ MORE!
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The Economic Bill of Rights
By: Brett Magbee
This week, millions of us will once again be championing Liberty as the 232nd celebration of the
Fourth of July occurs in large cities and small towns across America. It's an important time as we conjure up images of our Founding Fathers -- of
sacrifices made and dreams realized. It's a time to remember that it was our independence from a monarchy that defines our nation's idea of Liberty
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and protecting Liberty never ends.
On July 3, 1987, President Ronald Reagan spoke about the need for an Economic Bill of Rights. "There
are four essential economic freedoms. They are what links life inseparably to liberty, what enables an individual to control his own destiny, what
makes self-government and personal independence part of the American experience.
"First is the freedom to work -- to pursue one's livelihood in one's own way, to choose where one
will locate and what one will do to sustain individual and family needs and desires. . . . READ MORE!
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