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Better Drinking

Thursday, July 07, 2005 at 1:50 PM

Private property and freedom of association

The article posted here is not about beer per se, but brings up the issues of freedom, accountability, responsibility, and what we would call in plain Southern, common sense.

The "nanny-state" mentioned here is the same thing that Rushdoony called the "messianic state"; we must resist it, especially in our thinking.