Welcome to Vox Libertas
Vox Libertas is my new blog dedicated to combating what I see as a trend away from the freedom that this country is based on and towards authoritarian rule. In order to get its message the broadest possible readership, I have posted versions of it to several major blogging services and am posting copies here to the web site I have run for more than a dozen years.Versions of Vox Libertas can currently be found on the following services:
- Vox
- LiveJournal
- Blogger/BlogSpot
- MySpace
- Daily Kos
- This page (see below)
Vox Libertas Postings
You can get to individual Vox Libertas postings on this site in a couple of ways. The most recent ones are listed in the navigation bar (which is on the left side of this page in most page styles), or the complete list is available below.
- Welcome to Vox Libertas
- The Real Tragedy of 21st Century America
- The Issue of Habeas Corpus
- Alberto Gonzalez: “There is no expressed grant of habeas in the Constitution"
- Habeas Corpus Redux (only on Daily Kos)
- Just What Is "Out of Line"?
- The "Mary Cheney" Question Redux (Daily Kos version)
- The "Mary Cheney" Question Redux (non-Kos version)
- A Government of Men, Not Laws?
- Changes to The Insurrection Act
- Daily Kos version, with poll on the danger
- A similar version, with poll, published on John Edwards' Blog.
- Issues Demanding Action
- John Yoo: Historic Flaws, Part one of my review of John Yoo's The Powers of War and Peace
- What Is Wrong with CNN?
- Yoo: War-time powers NOT in effect, Part two of my review of John Yoo's The Powers of War and Peace
- Khalil, the Heretic,
"A Madrassa Grows In Brooklyn"? Named after Gibran? Really?!
Not contributed to the DailyKos - Protecting the Republic The danger of Presidential power
- In Concord: (A series of thoughts and meditations at the Old North Bridge)
- Meditations and Realizations, The Graves of the British Soldiers
- Cycles of History, On how the Battle of Concord is like the War in Iraq
- The Minuteman—Unlawful Patriot?, regarding the militia then and now, and what an unlawful combatant is
- Cannon Law, Cannons, the right to bear arms and sovereignty
- Thank you, Sen. Dodd, an open letter to Senator Dodd regarding the FISA filibuster
- School Girl vs "Professional Journalist", a commentary on the sad state of journalism today.
- A house divided against itself cannot stand. We sometimes forget the import of Lincoln's famous warning.
- Quiet Revolutions Both the forces for and against the Rule of Law seem to be working in the shadows. That can't be good, can it?
- I think I understand the FISA bill. Do I? I'm not sure. Please let me know.
- Commander in Chief of all the American people? in which I question the appropriateness of what seems to becoming a nearly universal meme.
- On Sex and Evolution and Politics, in which I contemplate human nature, justice and politics
- Republicans, Republicanism and the Republic
In Concord - Details
The pictures illustrating the "In Concord" series are all posted on Flikr as a set. There is also a Google-based map showing where each of the pictures were taken.
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Pre-Vox Political Musings
Before I created Vox Libertas, I had written a number of web pages covering political and social issues that are somewhat similar to what I've been writing in my new blog. I've collected the most pertinent ones here.
- 9-11: America Victorious
- A Tale of Two Towers
- But are we protecting them?
- Portrait of a Hero
- On Love Trust and Commitment
- The Intermediary
- Revolutionary Communications