James Madison: Taking Back the Liberal Label
Long ago scholars identified the arches and loops of John Locke’s fingerprints on the writings of James Madison. Evidence of this influence is...
History
Halloween Came Early in ’64 Campaign
Is it merely a coincidence that Election Day comes so soon after Halloween? The voting is always in early November, perhaps in consideration...
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Bipartisan Warfare State
During the 1976 vice presidential debate between Senators Robert Dole, Republican of Kansas, and Democrat Walter Mondale of Minnesota, Dole outraged Democrats when...
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Time to Fire the Contractors and Return to the Blueprint
As a requirement of modern life, we contract others to do things for us that naturally lie within our own power. Someone builds...
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America’s Inflation and Hyperinflation
With the reckless activities of the Federal Reserve and the United States Treasury over the past several years, some among the punditry are...
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“If This Be Treason …”
A Google search of the word “treason” reveals most of the results use the word in context of applying the label to President...
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Baseball Hero, Ted Williams
Ted Williams had just returned from a hunting trip in Minnesota, about 40 miles north of Minneapolis, when he heard the news that...
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Jefferson, State Sovereignty, and the Constitution
Of George Wythe, his former tutor and mentor, Thomas Jefferson once wrote: “No man ever left behind him a character more venerated than...
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The American Rifleman in the Revolutionary War
“When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor...
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Larry McDonald — An American Hero Remembered
Congressman Lawrence McDonald had served as a medical doctor, an officer in the U.S. Navy, a U.S. Representative from Georgia, and the chairman...
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Necessary and Proper and Treasonous: All in a Day’s Work
Few days over the course of the summer of 1787 were as historically relevant as August 20. Time was dragging on and the...
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Engineering Oblivion: Eugenics, the Remaking of Man and Unmaking of Morality
The year is 1941, and the Nazis are in the midst of their Lebensborn program. Men of pure Aryan stock — especially members...
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This Day in the Constitutional Convention of 1787
Thursday, August 16, 1787. The State House in Philadelphia was hot, hot, hot. The delegates gathered to “form a more perfect union” were...
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Real or Imagined? A Critical Review of the SPLC’s List of Conspiracies
The indefatigable Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), whose professed aim is "fighting hate and bigotry," and "tracking and exposing the activities of hate...
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The Ancien Régime and Obama — The More Things Change …
The Telegraph’s Nile Gardner, a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst for the British newspaper, has compared the Obama Administration to the ancien régime of...
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