As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said in his Memorial Day address in 1884 at Keene, Memorial Day ‘celebrates and solemnly reaffirms from year to year a national act of enthusiasm and faith.’ With changing times, Memorial Day is more celebrated as a holiday than the glum occasion it was meant for. We must remember that […]
The monthly meeting of the Charlotte Bastiat Society was held last week with speaker Robert Hellebush, the managing director of the original Bastiat Society in Charleston, SC. He gives a very enjoyable primer to Capitalism in this presentation. Recommended viewing by all.
This week’s fun event (see link) brought to you by a friendly NC Regional Council of Government and paid for with your taxes. Wonder why we’re having to look at really bad ideas like toll roads? It’s because we’re spending tax money on this kind of activity. And this is an excellent illustration of Bastiat’s “Seen and the Unseen” […]
This post is re-published with the permission of it’s author, Craig Holland Dixon of MachineSmash.com. Surprise! Perhaps it was naive of us, as citizens of a supposedly-free country, to presume that we could so openly flaunt our ability to produce something (save for a filled-out tax form) without Uncle Sam’s permission. While Obama’s faithful […]
Oh my. This report from ABC News is pretty damaging. State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland raised specific objections to this paragraph drafted by the CIA in its earlier versions of the talking points: “The Agency has produced numerous pieces on the threat of extremists linked to al-Qa’ida in Benghazi and eastern Libya. These noted that, […]
The GOP has relapsed into a potentially fatal business-as-usual complacency. The recommendations contained in its high profile but anodyne “autopsy” represent, at best, a band-aid for a Party hemorrhaging from a much more fundamental wound: being out of touch with the needs, values, and dignity of the American people. The GOP high command today resembles […]
The Governor of North Carolina, Pat McCrory, announced another ‘mistake’ in the Medicaid projections made by the Administration of former Governor Bev Perdue last fall before the elections. Wonder if these underestimations were deliberate in the hopes of helping the Democrat candidate in the gubernatorial race? Nah, that never happens. Right? ‘Nothing to see here, ladies and […]
The gold price fell, dramatically, and now is bobbing about. Meanwhile, the prospects for implementing a 21st century gold standard continues to rise. Dramatically. In a recent media monetary policy media slugfest between The New York Times and The Atlantic, on one side, and Bloomberg.com and Forbes.com on the other, analyzed here, recently, the gold standard prevailed. It is noteworthy that gold’s victory in […]
When the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre suggested using “armed guards” to protect the children in our schools, the usual anti-self protection Democrats and their shills in the “news” media immediately launched into another one of their vicious smear campaigns against LaPierre designed to change the subject and shut down any discussion or debate, even that which […]
***This post was written by Dr. Dan Eichenbaum and Michael Maharrey, National Communications Director for the Tenth Amendment Center. The post originally appeared on Dr. Dan’s Freedom Forum. After the American Revolutionary War, our founders, having just thrown off the yoke of British oppression, understood that the citizens of our new nation must always retain the […]
