Welcome!

What County do you live in? Congressional District?

Marion

Email

robbins_lynnm@comcast.net

LPIN Leadership Position?

n/a

What is your blog or website?

http://misslspoliticalmeanderings.blogspot.com/

Phone Number

Please email first - I hate phones

Relationship Status

Married with Children

Education and Work Info

Undergraduate major in Philosophy and English.

Philosophical interests include political philosophy, ethical philosophy, history of philosophy, libertarian philosophy, John Stuart Mill, Machiavelli

English interests include rhetorical issues (grammar, etc), structure and function of language, creative writing, political writing

Law? May pursue graduate work in English and/or Philosophy. Strong interest in teaching at the college level.

Overall academic interests include legal/political philosophy, philosophy of law, Constitutional law, libertarian philosophy (J.S. Mill), Machiavelli, linguistics/language, history, government, biology

Dream Job

Professor, lawyer, writer. Maybe run for government.

I've already achieved motherhood, and that makes me happy.

Interests and Activities?

Reading, politics, listening to Abdul, Beck, and Boortz on AM 1430 (WXNT), spending time with my two children and husband, undergraduate work at IUPUI

Favorite Blogs or Websites?

My favorites at the moment include American Thinker, The Constitution Society, Free Hoosiers, and Neal Boortz's site.

What books should be required reading in government schools?

John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty", Federalist/Anti-Federalist Papers, Constitution (intense study)

Favorite Quotes

"A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do, never does all he can." J.S. Mill (Autobiography)

"A government big enough to give you everything you need, is a government strong enough to take everything you have"
- Thomas Jefferson

The price good people pay for their indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — Plato (427-347 BC)

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, and is always followed by a dictatorship.

The average of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."

— Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1747-1813), Scottish jurist and historian.

Favorite President?

Jefferson