Bill Starr’s thoughtful and interesting discussion of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence ("The Blood of Liberty," American Thinker, June 21, 2014) has much to recommend it.  However, the following quote from his article calls out for a defense of classical Liberalism: [W]e are told that long, long ago there was something wonderful called Classical Liberalism that became corrupted over the years. But how could something so good become so bad, unless there was something bad in it from the beginning? The term “liberal” comes from the Latin “liber,” meaning “free.”  Liberalism originally referred to the philosophy of liberty – that is, the philosophy of the American Founders, the great tradition the Founders did so much to define and advance. The term “liberal” today means the precise opposite of what it once meant.  In the United States “liberal” means today a set of...(Read Full Post)