Welcome to the On Liberty Watch blog. It provides commentary and analysis of politics, culture and current events from a mostly libertarian perspective. Among other things we believe that the Declaration of Independence means what it says “… that all men are created equal with certain unalienable rights endowed by their Creator, among them Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness…” We believe that these rights exist independent of government; that they are pre-political.

The proper role of government is to secure these rights. That is its proper role. Government ought not, and indeed lacks the authority to use its police power to impose its view of the good society on its citizens. And let’s never what Ronald Reagan said in his 1967 inaugural address as Governor of California: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

And let us never forget the immense cost we have paid over the generations, because freedom is not free.