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“We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name — liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names — liberty and tyranny.”
“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty…”
—Abraham Lincoln
April 1864 – In a public speech in Baltimore

Number one for eleven weeks straight on the New York Times best sellers list and counting. This is a must read for all conservatives who want to know how far we have fallen from our conservative beginnings, and how much further we will fall if the liberals in this country are allowed to have their way.

I have ordered this book, and I should get it sometime this week. I am looking forward to reading it. I consider myself a very conservative person, but even I need to brush up on my conservatism from time to time, and I think this book is just the thing to refresh my memory on what it really means to be conservative. I hope that all of my friends buy this book, and that they read it too.

I’ll bet you the New York Times best seller list people cringe every week when they have to put this book back on the list in the number one spot. So let’s all go out and buy this book, even if its just to tick off the New York Slimes people.
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Book Review:

Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Mark Levin’s new book, published today, is essential reading. It is a remarkable work on several different levels. It takes no degree of clairvoyance to predict that it will become an enormous best seller and very soon begin to influence the national political debate.
Liberty and Tyranny artfully presents a harmonious marriage of the timeless with the timely. On the one hand, the book is a thorough yet compact briefing on the major political issues of this era. On the other hand, the author brings to bear the principles of the American Founders and Framers of the Constitution (and the great thinkers who guided them), illustrating, dissecting, and explaining our current political arguments, while enlightening the reader with the genuine wisdom bequeathed to all of us — the sacred trust of the Founders, embodied in the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and Federalist Papers, all of which are quoted and applied with insight and precision.

Think of it as an outstanding tutorial in applied political philosophy, and you will begin to grasp the scope of Mark Levin’s achievement. The fact that the book is lucid, unpretentious, and utterly accessible to anyone who cares to focus and think, means that it will elevate the quality of political thought and dialogue across a broad swath of the American populace.

If you care passionately about America, and worry for its future — and who doesn’t, given the current national leadership? — then you owe it to yourself to buy and devour this marvelous work. It is an essential antidote to what ails America at the moment.

Conservatives who read Liberty and Tyranny will be supplied with ample ammunition to outsmart, outthink and out-reason their liberal friends who are brave enough to actually engage in a serious political debate with them.

The overall plan of the book is simple and logical. Chapter One, “On Liberty and Tyranny,” lays out the basic conceptual scheme. Levin contrasts two opposing political philosophies currently in contention: The Conservative versus the Statist. He grounds the Conservative in the values and insights on human nature of the American Founders, and does so economically and convincingly. For the other side of the debate, he quite correctly rejects the label “liberal”, because in current usage the term has become entirely divorced from its literal meaning. He writes:
The Modern Liberal believes in the supremacy of the state…

Here’s the rest of the review: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/mark_levins_liberty_and_tyrann.html

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