http://mises.org/story/3817

Thoughtful, though somewhat sterile essay about rights and society. It is interesting to think of this authors points in relation to 2 Nephi 2:11 "For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things." There is a balance that must be achieved, to find the good society, between government and rights; the first being evil and the other good. The enumerated powers of government in America were originally limited, but are much less so now because the people ceded their protection of their rights to the government almost completely for a time. There is a reawakening of the people in this regard and protection of rights is beginning to be taken back by the people. There is a touch point of ideology that should be returned to, namely the founding ideology. There we find the balance of government and rights, but finding our way back through the web of precedent and regulation we have made for ourselves will be a careful pursuit indeed.

Meridian Magazine:: Ideas and Society: Easily Offended or Easily Entreated

Meridian Magazine:: Ideas and Society: Easily Offended or Easily Entreated

How true this is. All who are warriors of truth must face the world in the way of the peaceful warrior, our only weapon is the sword of the spirit that will pierce the hearts of those who oppose the truth as we bear pure and simple testimony of the truth. WE will stand for what is right come what may, and as the world rages around us we will live, and teach, and uphold truth and righteousness without fear and without apology. In the light of truth we will grow brighter and brighter until the perfect day when every knee will bend and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ "For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." Hab. 2:14