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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Here is a ranking of the level of freedom in the 50 states. I haven't read the report, so I don't know if I agree with the methodology. Texas ranks 5th overall, behind New Hampshire (state motto, "Live Free or Die"), Colorado, South Dakota, and Idaho. Texas is the freest of the large, industrialized states according to the study, and based on my own observation. Years ago the author Robert Ruark (who wrote about the struggle for freedom in Kenya in Something of Value and Uhuruh) wrote that Texas was the most democratic place he had ever found in his extensive travels around the world. Mark Steyn lives in New Hampshire, which is a good indication that it is a free place. He is a Canadian, so probably can stand the cold weather, which would be tough for a Texan like me. Maintaining economic freedom anywhere in the US is going to be difficult under the Obama regime. A lot of people don't seem to realize that liberty and equality are opposite sides of the coin: if there is liberty, then economic outcomes will not be similar, and if there is perfect equality, there cannot be complete liberty. This is the reason that the US Constitution only promises equality under the law. (Note that Obama wants judicial "empathy" not equality under the law, implying that he does not want liberty.)

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