Serving up reason from the North and logic from the South
Essays of Eric Wojciechowski over the first ten years of the FreedomCocaktail blog. Available in print for the first time at Amazon! From the Forward of the book: FORWARD In the beginning, there was a friendship that found itself in the hound-halls of Malow Junior High in southeast, Michigan. I can’t quite remember the first… Continue reading BOOK RELEASE: Libertarian Dialogues: Ten Years at FreedomCocktail
Nobody owns words. No culture, race, sex, gender, identity of any kind, owns words. Attempting to put ownership on any words at all is a serious retardation of free speech. Words, by themselves, carry no weight other than what someone puts into them. There are two partners where words are concerned: The speaker/writer and the… Continue reading A Thought on Words
The complaints of the day of government overreach come in the form of mask and vaccination mandates. This certainly is concerning. If one owns their own body, how can anyone tell you to put on a mask or inject anything? Well, we’ve been doing it for decades now. Private businesses have hung the “No Shoes,… Continue reading With Freedom, Comes Responsibility
Spring of 2000, I attended the Libertarian Party of Michigan’s annual convention. At the time, I was Vice Chair of the St. Clair County Libertarian Party and assisting Richard Friend’s run for Congress. So I sorta had to be there. Besides, I was involving myself locally, writing letters to the editor and the next, logical… Continue reading The Company You Keep
This 2021 election looks a lot like all the other elections in my lifetime: Votes were nearly split 50/50 between both major parties and the flip flop from Dem to Rep to Dem to Rep continues. This suggests two things to me: 1) People are much more diverse in their thoughts. There's no way American… Continue reading To LP or Not LP
Some time ago, I attended a wedding in Detroit where one half came from very wealthy origins. And I was seated at a table next to a very wealthy, well traveled man who was kind enough to engage me in conversation. He hailed from Europe and I asked him if he intended on traveling around… Continue reading Defending Bezos (and Success)
Shortly, the United States government, particularly the Pentagon, will be releasing a much anticipated report on UFOs. As part of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, a report on what the heck has been going on with all these UFO reports must be presented to Congress some time this month. Coverage has been… Continue reading The Coming Pentagon UFO Report
So rich Americans like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk don’t pay much in income tax. The gist of the issue as reported by ProPublica reads, “(Regarding IRS data on the matter), it demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair share and the richest Americans pay the most. The… Continue reading Avoiding Taxes is Fun for Both Rich and Poor
A list of things Democrats can now do that Republicans cannot complain about: Democrats can spend as freely as they want. Under the Trump Administration, federal spending bloated more than under Obama. There is no such thing as fiscal conservative. Democrats can invade any country they want. The Bush Administration put a permanent foothold in… Continue reading Republicans Cannot Complain if…
America lost an important member of the family last night. Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg succumbed to complications of cancer and passed away yesterday. And we should be thankful for the value she played in our lives and her contribution to American history. Her work on the Supreme Court has been groundbreaking and led… Continue reading Reflection on Losing Ginsburg
But Eric, you’re more in line and in agreement with the Republican Party and conservatives than the Democrats, so why is most of your energy these days put towards the demolition of the Republican Party and conservatives? Why all the mockery? Good question, glad you asked. Let me answer it the long way. You have… Continue reading Resolution to Change the Locks
In one of my last posts here at FreedomCocktail, I ended it with “Now on to our regularly scheduled program.” And that program was a planned series of articles addressing political topics and presenting libertarian solutions. Oh boy did that get plowed over in a hurry for various reasons. The news cycle changes nearly hourly… Continue reading Orange Man Bad
I said I’d be focusing less on the federal government and more on local solutions but, wait, I’m gonna get back to that in just a minute. First, I feel the three ring circus in Washington needs to be called out for what it is. Regardless of what side you fall on or maybe you’ve… Continue reading This is What You Want, This is What You Get
Immigration has always been an issue in the Americas, not just North America. But all the Americas. Starting several thousand years ago, homo-sapiens crossed the Siberian land bridge, entered what is now Alaska, and over several generations, made their way all the way down to what is now Argentina and Chile. We’re something of a… Continue reading A Libertarian Perspective – Immigration
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