Tim Dunkin's Past Articles

102 articles

Rediscovering What Liberty Is All About

published: May 24, 2012

This election season has so far been one of the most depressing on record, at least from the perspective of liberty lovers. The political conditions themselves were so positive – an incumbent...

Regulating the Abuse Industry

published: April 26, 2012

It is rare thing indeed that I will advocate for legislative action on just about any matter, as I generally prefer that legislatures do as little work as possible. However, in cases where there ar...

Trayvon Martin, Hephzibah House, and American Shamelessness

published: April 08, 2012

By now, the chances are extremely good that if you have a pulse and an EKG reading, you have heard about the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman last month in Sanford, Florida. And ...

The American People Need to Grow Up

published: March 26, 2012

One of the unfortunate things that has come to characterize modern America is the immaturity of so many of our people. I’ve written before about the infantilization of large segments of the ...

Newt Gingrich – The Choice of Movement Conservatives

published: March 12, 2012

This Republican primary season has been one of the most contention, and interesting, that I have seen in a while. As never before, we see that the heart and soul of the Republican Party really...

The Red-Green Convergence in Action

published: March 04, 2012

In what should be one of the most disturbing decisions made in modern American jurisprudence, a judge in Pennsylvania recently dismissed an assault case against a Muslim immigrant who blatantly a...

It’s Time to Make the Republican Party “Elite” Go Away

published: February 27, 2012

The assorted rabble of RINOs, insiders, and power-brokers who make up the self-styled GOP “elite” appear to be starting to panic. As it becomes less and less obvious that Mitt Romn...

Natural Law vs. Natural Lawlessness

published: February 19, 2012

A little while back, I had a discussion with some libertarian-minded individuals who, at one point in the conversation, seemed to assert that “natural rights” were pretty much unlimited...

Reclaiming Robin Hood

published: February 03, 2012

Maybe it's just a personal idiosyncrasy, but one thing that annoys me greatly is when people draw misleading or overblown historical analogies to try to support some argument they want to make. For...

Conservatives Want to Give Americans a Fair Shot, Obama and the Leftists Want to Give Americans a Dropshot

published: January 29, 2012

Buried among the torrent of uninformed platitudes, class warfare rhetoric, and generally false assertions about his own record in his recent State of the Union address was Barack Obama’s litt...

Ron Paul? No Thanks

published: January 20, 2012

I want to like Ron Paul. I really do. There are a lot of things that he says he believes that I find attractive in a candidate. He obviously talks the talk with respect to economic...

In Defense of Hephzibah House

published: January 04, 2012

As most people who use it a great deal know, the internet is an invaluable tool. However, it is also a potential source of great evil. When most people think of the dangers of the internet, they ...

The One That Got Away

published: December 30, 2011

If nothing else, Carlos Rafael of New Bedford, Massachusetts will always have a whopper of a fish story to tell his grandkids, as he regales them with tales of the 881 lb. tuna that got away from h...

Recovering the Spirit of Reag

published: December 19, 2011

As many astute, and perhaps many not so astute, observers have witnessed over the past few years, the Right – as a broad coalition of compatible movements and ideological subsets – has ...

The Futility of Banking on “Centrist” Third Parties

published: November 29, 2011

A few days ago, Ron Fournier at the National Journal wrote a trite little article about the failure of the debt “super committee” to generate any substantive solutions to the present de...

When Purity Gets in the Way of Conservative Principle

published: November 22, 2011

As some may recall, off-year elections were held a couple of weeks ago across the country. Electorally speaking, it was something of a mixed bag for conservatism. In Ohio, a petition that would o...

Worldviews Matter

published: November 02, 2011

Perhaps the oddest news story from the past week was the one where PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is suing SeaWorld, alleging that the water-based theme park’s holding and...

The Occupy Wall Street Mob Is Not the 99%

published: October 13, 2011

For the past several weeks, Americans have been treated to the spectacle of the “Occupy Wall Street” protests (though these have since spread to city centers in municipalities across th...

Rick Perry’s Real Crony Capitalism Problem – Illegal Immigration

published: October 09, 2011

Rick Perry lost me. Hithertofore undecided as far as a Republican primary candidate was concerned (and hoping against hope that Jim DeMint would change his mind and get into the race), I was start...

The Right to Keep and Bear Cameras

published: October 04, 2011

One of the fundamental premises upon which any truly free society must be based is the notion that the government is open, transparent, and accountable to the citizens. To the extent that this...

The Politics of Universal Criminality

published: September 12, 2011

Pretty much anybody who is paying the least bit of attention can see that the United States of America is slipping inexorably toward a police state. The courts have systematically gutted our 4...

All the News That’s Fit to Invent

published: September 03, 2011

By now, it ought to be obvious that if a person gets all or most of their information from the mainstream media (i.e. from ABCNNBCBS, and even Fox in a lot of cases), they will be sadly misinformed...

One of These Is Not Like the Other

published: August 14, 2011

Well, it finally happened. One of the major financial houses, Standards and Poor, reached the point where the fiscal irresponsibility of the United States federal government could no longer be igno...

Anders Behring Breivik and the Tyranny of the Left

published: August 03, 2011

Rahm Emanuel, probably one of the most corrupt and disgusting politicians in America in recent years, once remarked that it was always good policy to “never let a good crisis go to waste.&rdq...;

Liberty Lovers Are Counter-Revolutionaries

published: August 02, 2011

One of the favorite memes of the insane Left is that those of us on the Right are “dangerous.” We’re “radical.” We’re crazy nuts who are just chomping ...