Robert Maynard column
Robert Maynard was born and raised in Vermont and now lives in Williston, VT, with his wife Yukiko and son Sean. A former Product Engineer at IBM, he now serves as the Editor of True North Radio website (http://www.truenorthradio.com/) and grass roots Project Director of Family Security Foundation (http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/ ).
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January 17, 2012
The rise of both Rick Santorum and Ron Paul in the current GOP Primary has inspired a sometimes-contentious discussion within the conservative ranks between . . .
Robert Maynard
December 21, 2011
I would like to follow up on an early piece I wrote entitled "The Left's Authoritarian Vision." In that article I noted the left's historical tendency to admire . . .
Robert Maynard
December 14, 2011
The latest example of the left's authoritarian vision is a recent Wall Street Journal article by the Service Employee International Union's President Andy Stern . . .
Robert Maynard
September 28, 2011
Everywhere we look, freedom is under fire. The prognosis in some circles, for the future of freedom, is bleak indeed. In his book "America Alone: The End of the . . .
Robert Maynard
September 23, 2011
One of the central themes in this series is the responsibility those who enter into a Covenant with God have to establish a just social order. In this section . . .
Robert Maynard
September 13, 2011
The other day I was reading n article by Mark Steyn that peaked my interest. The article was entitled "A Tale of Two Declines." The theme of the article is . . .
Robert Maynard
August 22, 2011
In the midst of politicians clamoring for yet more government backed stimulus money to be spent on infrastructure projects, it is time once again to consider . . .
Robert Maynard
July 2, 2011
Senator Sanders is up to his usual class warfare tactics again. The occasion this time is the battle going on in Washington D.C. over deficit reduction. The . . .
Robert Maynard
June 9, 2011
True North has recently ran a couple of articles on Burlington's quest to adopt "Smart Meters" as a means of saving on power costs. See here and here. It has . . .
Robert Maynard
May 2, 2011
On Wednesday April 27th the Democratic Committee of Burlington held a forum on the proposed healthcare reform legislation being rushed through our political . . .
Robert Maynard
March 27, 2011
There is a large and well-funded national movement called the Universal Health Care Action Network behind Vermont's push for a single payer system that gives . . .
Robert Maynard
February 14, 2011
The situation in Egypt is a bit more complicated than it is being presenting in the media. Some are portraying this as a democratic people's revolution that . . .
Robert Maynard
January 13, 2011
The notion being entertained in some circles of punditry that America will soon be overtaken by China as the world's top economic power gives me a sense of deja . . .
Robert Maynard
December 15, 2010
The pro-freedom movement has done a good job so far of resisting Obamacare. The new House majority has the ability to de-fund much of it. Officials at the state . . .
Robert Maynard
December 8, 2010
Quite a few years ago a group called The International Society for Individual Liberty published a series of pamphlets on various subjects related to the overall . . .
Robert Maynard
November 11, 2010
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of . . .
Robert Maynard
October 29, 2010
A recent article in the Catholic Newsletter "Our Sunday Visitor" entitled "Is the Tea Party movement in sync with Catholic teaching?" has raised some . . .
Robert Maynard
September 13, 2010
There has been an outpouring of response to both the proposed building of a Mosque at Ground Zero and the intention to burn copies of the Koran. In both cases . . .
Robert Maynard
August 17, 2010
There has recently been talk within the Tea Party movement on whether to maintain a focus on "fiscal issues," rather than take on the "social issues." . . .
Robert Maynard
July 20, 2010
As has already been discussed, the early American notion of a covenant with God mandated that they sanctify the social order. Of course, that meant realizing . . .
Robert Maynard
July 10, 2010
As has already been discussed, Americans are well known around the world for our sense of Individualism. It is this characteristic that has led us to take very . . .
Robert Maynard
July 6, 2010
On Thursday July 1st the True North Radio show had Vermont's U.S. Senate candidate Daniel Freilich on as its guest. Mr. Freilich is running in the Democratic . . .
Robert Maynard
June 17, 2010
The 20th Century has given rise to serious challenges to the American notion of human rights rooted in a vision of liberty and virtue. Cato Institute senior . . .
Robert Maynard
June 1, 2010
Once again the mindset of political correctness is hard at work muddying the waters when it comes to the War on Terror. In a Fox News article entitled . . .
Robert Maynard
May 3, 2010
With the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, President Obama will have another opportunity to select someone to the highest court in the land . . .
Robert Maynard
April 20, 2010
On April 15th the Tea Party movement once again held tax protest rallies all across the country. In a surreal response to their protests, President Obama . . .
Robert Maynard
April 13, 2010
Recently I have been following a friendly debate between two champions of liberty that brings to mind this famous quote from Charles Dickens "A Tale of Two . . .
Robert Maynard
March 14, 2010
The Preamble of the American Constitution states that one of its purposes is to "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." All too often . . .
Robert Maynard
March 9, 2010
The Image of God
One theme from American civilization that has attracted a lot of attention is the ideal of "American Individualism." The modern notion that . . .
Robert Maynard
March 2, 2010
Conservative "blogs" and radio shows are still buzzing about the keynote speech that radio and TV host Glenn Beck delivered at this year's "Conservative . . .
Robert Maynard
February 28, 2010
A City on a Hill
We have been discussing the vision that was behind America's founding. This was a vision that Americans strove to share with the world from . . .
Robert Maynard
February 26, 2010
Americans have historically taken a great deal of pride in their tradition of the protection of individual rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. What is . . .
Robert Maynard
January 6, 2010
According to Mark Steyn in his book, "America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It," the combination of a demographically prolific Islam, coupled with . . .
Robert Maynard
December 25, 2009
A while back, Vermont's Times Argus published an article entitled "Scholar to bring 'Christian Left' message to Vt.," by Mel Huff. The article refers to . . .
