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Category Archive for 'Property Rights'

Support Economic Freedom

Posted in Liberty, Property Rights on Aug 10th, 2011

“Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.” – Calvin Coolidge

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Property Rights: Can We Exit the Highway to Feudalism?

Posted in City of Dover, Property Rights on Aug 9th, 2011

Who really owns your property? Does the government? Do you? Do you own it, but the government controls it? I believe in too many towns that we have a lite version of feudalism, it is an insidious and frustrating system of government control and manipulation of private property. You own it and pay taxes for the [...]

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Operation March Sadness

Posted in Property Rights on Mar 27th, 2011

It’s not every day that state employees are caught on video threatening, lying to, and blatantly stealing from innocent citizens — but that’s exactly what happened on March 25 in a quiet neighborhood in Claymont. With the help of the Delaware State Police, a horde of Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) workers rumbled through two [...]

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Melissa McCafferty: Bold Citizen

Posted in Land Use, Property Rights, Regulation on Mar 26th, 2011

UPDATE:  I can confirm that at least in the state of Delaware this has reached Joe the Plumber status.  Don’t tase me and don’t touch my junk also come to mind.  The basketball fiasco has started going viral.  When I got home tonight about a third of my facebook wall was full of links to the News Journal article, the [...]

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St. Nicholas Church at the World Trade Center

Posted in Liberty, Property Rights, Religion on Aug 29th, 2010

The New York Times July 3, 2008 The story of the tiny St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and its efforts to rebuild after the collapse of the World Trade Center is one of well-intentioned promises that led to endless negotiations, design disputes, delays and mounting costs. It is, in other words, a microcosm of the [...]

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Your Stimulus Tax Dollars at Work

Posted in Obama, Property Rights, Stuff on May 24th, 2010

The myriad of payoffs that reflect the corrupt Obama so called “stimulus” package,   (Really just Liberal Democrat Union payoff money at our expense)  demonstrates that liberals really don’t care about rebuilding our economy.  One would hope though that funding directed at some of the key functions of the Federal Government such as Defense and [...]

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Please drop the National Park

Posted in Property Rights, Regulation on May 21st, 2010

Lewes is not historically significant enough for a national park said the bureaucracy to Senator Carper. Residents should be glad and ask the Senator to drop them for the bill. As a matter of fact, Delaware would be much better off if the entire enterprise is dropped. We do not need another level of government [...]

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