Welcome to FreedomPolitics
January 20th, 2009, 12:32 am · 20 Comments · posted by thinkfree
Lovers of liberty, rejoice. Today, we’re launching FreedomPolitics.com, a site dedicated to the pursuit and protection of freedom.
We’re not the only ones who think freedom needs a hand, but as a Freedom Communications site, we follow the model of an exceptional defender of liberty, R.C. Hoiles. Brian Doherty described Hoiles thus:
Most of the heroes of the American libertarian movement have been economists and academics. That scrappy gang fighting for the ideas at the heart of America’s founding – that government should be restricted to, at most, the protection of its citizens’ life, liberty, property and ability to pursue happiness – has been largely an intellectual movement, operating in the rarefied field of ideas.
But one great libertarian, Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, spread his radical ideas not within an intellectual ivory tower, but within daily newspapers aimed at everyone in his community. He worked not in a nonprofit think tank, but within his own family-owned business. That business was a set of newspapers (and eventually other media outlets) named, not after him, but after the idea he most treasured: Freedom. That company is now called Freedom Communications, and its flagship newspaper is The Orange County Register.
With the support of more than 25 newspapers across the country, including that flagship, FreedomPolitics.com will be a hub of news and commentary dedicated to spreading R.C. Hoiles’ vision and the ideas of liberty he loved.
Right now we’re just getting started (consider this our soft launch), so don’t hesitate to let us know if something goes awry. The site will go fully operational on Inauguration Day with a slate of commentary from the top minds in the freedom movement.
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I visited your new site upon reading Mr. Greenhut’s description of it in his Sunday column. Great idea!
I got to the site through Google. Was it just a coincidence that the new site was accompanied by a Google ad for FREE government money grants available at the rate of $10,000,000,000 per month? The ad states: “as seen on CBS, CNN, and the New York Times”
That’s part of our federal problem.
I like the idea that you have started. I hope it goes over well. I would like to see some of the founding fathers ideas and thoughts included in some form. It seems to me that most people do not know about the constitution and how it relates to the problems of today.
I will pass on the word regarding this website, thank you.
I opened up this site as soon as I read about it in the Commentary section by Steven Greenhut. Looks good! One minor note is that the year 2009 appears to be cut-off at the top.
Lari B. Davis
Thank you for this website. We are going to need all the help we can get to hold on to the country our Founding Fathers left us.
One big question!!! Why isn’t anyone confirming Obama’s birthplace and insisting on his birth certificate? If, as has been stated by his Obama grandmother, he was born in Kenya, he has absolutely no business being our Commander in Chief, our President.
I look forward with great anticipation and hope that this site will become a beacon of freedom. We are at a crossroads in this nations history, one road leads to freedom, the other continues us along the path to big government and fascism.
Recently, great men like Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Lew Rockwell have lit torch for liberty. The freedom movement is growing strong. I hope this site can continue the momentum.
I’ll chalk this up to website developmental misunderstandings, or perhaps you have no control over Google ads. The ad for “Free Government Money” does your theme an injustice.
I hope you guys will keep your intellectualizing down-to-earth. I wouldn’t be in the mood to check the dictionary as to the meaning of every third word in your discourses (a la George Will whose elitest-level writings I ignore altogether). Use the examples found in the commonconservative.com as a guide to how you should be expressing your ideas. The object of the exercise is to attract adherents to your ideas. Don’t make them difficult to understand. Bill Harrison, Dana Point, CA
Good luck on your “baby’. BTW, I sat in the same room at the O.C.Register with “R.C.” (Mr. Hoyles) listening to a lecture series explaining what Freedom is. [V50-Andrew J. Galambos, innovator]. Forgot exact date, but think it was late ’60’s-early ’70’s. I hope you will acknowledge Galambos in future commentary. His theory of Freedom and Capitalism was/is so far ahead of anything I’ve seen in over 30 years. Interestingly, I have rarely seen him mentioned in any article of the OCR, yet his theory is undoubtedly the best evr description of what Freedom really is.
We are most fortunate to have the OCRegister provide us with a form that we can use to speak out and for issues.
We are Conservative Libertarian’s and our major concern is the U.S. Senate. We need to call an end to the third ring of our government circus.
We’ve got to rid ourselves of twiddle de and twiddle dumb.
Dear Senator Boxer,
It was a real pleasure to have the opportunity to watch and listen to your interview with Senator H. Clinton for Secretary of State.
What struck me the most was your ability to ask her the hard questions. Her replies were of great value, as you indicated by bobbing your head up and down like a bubble doll on the dashboard.
You licked Hillary’s boots clean.
I wish you nothing but success with this new endeavor.
Freedompolitics dot com is just what the doctor prescribed here in OC.
We need more sites like this to re-introduce our elected leaders to the concept of WE THE PEOPLE and LIMITED GOVERNMENT.
Shine your light on what they fear the most.
Give em hell.
Thank you to all and good luck.
Norm Westwell
Great site! I wish you nothing but success. It is wonderful to know the limited government and freedom message will continue to thrive.
Could not come at a better time. This country sorely needs it.
Congratulations on your new blog! It should advance the cause of freedom.
Susan Trager
This is great! I really look forward to more of this.
Meanwhile, I have my own blog, see my website.
I saw an ad by the pro unionists to take away democratically voting for a union. I hope you will fight this…
Fear not! THE ONE will soon be dragged from the Oval Office in handcuffs!
Really….in handcuffs, Heavy? Color me skeptical.
Having now accepted the oath of office he is a felon. Once his citizenship status becomes public, he will be arrested.
Congrats on the new site, and thanks for advocating liberty!
Having been a subscriber to the Orange County Register for almost 30 years, I heartily applaud the launch of this website. The Register was the only major newspaper to oppose the internment of Japanese Americans in World War 2, and the paper has always propounded Libertarian beliefs and philosophy.
Congratulations and best of luck.
I think Lari B. Davis, the guy who posted above is an ass.