“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.” ~ Hillary Clinton “Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz” (“The community comes before the individual”) ~ Nazi slogan “We the People…in Order to…promote the general Welfare…” ~ US Constitution “WE can replace I in many minds…protecting the freedom and rights of the Independent […]
The Magic Trick
In 1913, one of the goals in the creation of the Fed was to have an entity that had the power to create currency, which would mean the power to create inflation. In 1791, the first Secretary of the Treasury of the US, Alexander Hamilton, convinced then-new president George Washington to create a central bank for the […]
The US Constitution Was Never Necessary for Military Defense
Before the US Constitution of 1787 was ratified, its proponents have claimed a centralized and powerful American state was necessary for the purposes of military defense. But, as the Anti-Federalists of the time pointed out, the original constitution (known as the Articles of Confederation) had already been sufficient to allow the colonies to defeat what was […]
Lexington and Concord: The Flame Remains Unlit
Today is the 252nd anniversary of the “shot heard ‘round the world” at Lexington and Concord. The British regulars who started the fracas were following an age old government tradition of seizing powder, munitions and property for a pretentious King who had assumed such wide distribution of the tools of resistance should be available only […]