Flada Blog

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
- Douglas MacArthur
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal […]

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I am in the process of implementing podcasting on my feeds so that people can listen to my writings. This is part of my effort to make things as appealing to my readers as possible.
With that being said, I have uploaded Podpress to my site which should make it somewhat easier–although with a […]

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This is a paper that I wrote for a college composition class that I was enrolled in when my son was born in October of 2005. I’ve included it here because it is one of my favorite papers that I wrote in my college classes. My hope was to convey that life isn’t […]

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In a 2006 Zogby poll, it was determined that 59% of voters self-identified as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. According to The World’s Smallest Political Quiz at the Advocates for Small Government website, this is the definition of a libertarian. So why do libertarians consistently fare so poorly in elections? Is a […]

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What kind of libertarian would I be if I didn’t start my new blog with the first entry calling for an end to the drug war?
Too often legislation is passed to deal with a social issue. Sometimes this hastily passed legislation seems like a common-sense solution, but more often than not the results are diametric […]

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