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Making Cannon Fodder
In his book, Making Patriots, Walter Berns of the American Enterprise Institute argues that traditional American individualism, with its emphasis on…
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Pledging Allegiance To The Omnipotent Lincolnian State
The US Supreme Court’s recent decision to review the constitutionality of the “under God” wording in the Pledge of Allegiance…
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Why The Republican Party Elected Lincoln
It is occasionally possible to see through the fog of mysticism, superstition, lies, and the romantic, happy-faced, floating butterfly vision…
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There’s Gambling In Vegas – Fascism In DC
During one of my infrequent-as-possible trips to Washington, D.C., which is barely 25 miles south of my home, a local…
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The Founding Fathers of Insider Trading
To this day, the U.S. government has not provided a clear legal definition of insider trading. This allows the feds…
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Statism, Imperialism, Hubris
Irving Kristol, who identifies himself as the “Godfather” of neoconservativism, is finally beginning to come clean and admit what neoconservatism…
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Supreme Dictators
“The War between the States established . . . this principle, that the federal government is, through its courts, the…
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The Political Economy of World Domination
Inspired by the strange, Eastern European philosophy of Leo Strauss, the neoconservatives who now control the Republican Party (and hence,…
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States’ Rights vs. Monetary Monopoly
The federal government today can wage wars without the consent of our congressional representatives, overthrow foreign governments, tax nearly half…
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The ‘Buy America’ Myth
In response to the publication of my book, The Real Lincoln, I’ve had quite a few letters from admirers of Pat…
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Machan, Secession, & Slavery
My friend Tibor Machan has courageously entered the fray over the issue of Lincoln and secession with a typically eloquent…
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Constitutional Con Men
During my May 7 debate with Harry Jaffa at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California, Jaffa made several statements that literally caused…
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Hitler Was A Lincolnite
In his book, A New Birth of Freedom, Harry Jaffa begins the second chapter with a quotation of Adolph Hitler taken…
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The American Anti-Civil Liberties Union
In his brilliant essay, “The Anatomy of the State,” Murray Rothbard wrote that state power always relies on the manipulation…
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Rewriting Economic History
One thing that can never be admitted in polite academic company is the notion that economics had anything to do…
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Was Lincoln A Tyrant?
In a recent WorldNetDaily article, Examining Evidence of Lincoln’s Tyranny (April 23), David Quackenbush accuses me of misreading several statements…
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