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Fighting Facts With Slander
Certain neo-conservatives have responded to the publication of my book, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda,…
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Rewriting History, American Style
In his book, Lincoln Reconsidered, Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer David Donald remarked that, after Lincoln’s death and “reincarnation” as a secular…
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America’s Disgraceful History Of Military “Trials”
The latest assault on the civil liberties of the American people in the name of fighting terrorism is President Bush’s…
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Targeting Civilians
One hundred thirty-six years after General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Americans are still fascinated with the War for…
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Lincoln’s Culture Of Death & Those Who Pretend It’s Pro-Life
The most absurd myth about Abraham Lincoln to emerge from the Claremont Institute, where such myth-making has apparently become a…
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Secession & Liberty
The presidential election of 2000 showed that America is now divided into two great political classes: the productive, taxpaying class…
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Lincolnian Totalitarians
In his book Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the Civil War, the literary critic Edmund Wilson explained the most…
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Public Enemies: Government Bureaucrats as Societal Parasites
Economists have been studying and writing about government bureaucracy for quite a long time. Ludwig von Mises became the first…
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Cronyism: Liberty Versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849
The thesis of Patrick Newman’s Cronyism (2021) is that American political history from 1607 to 1849 was essentially a tug of war…
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The New Anti-Communists: Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War
The Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War organization has joined with the Daughters of the Confederacy to advocate…
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An Open Letter To Treasury Secretary Bessent
Dear Secretary Bessent, I read with great interest your July 21 comment at the Federal Reserve Capital Conference that: “What…
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Trump’s Election Interference Tariff
Like a child with his new favorite toy at Christmas, President Trump is using tariff taxes not only to attempt…
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America’s Forgotten Independence Movement
There were three independence movements in America prior to the War to Prevent Southern Independence (1861-1865). The American Revolution was…
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To Make America Free Again
Everyone likes to be flattered by being called “great,” especially Donald Trump. Equally as flattering is to have one’s entire…
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The American-Israeli Nineteenth-Century Ways of War
In his book Nation, State and Economy, published in 1919, Ludwig von Mises wrote of how nineteenth-century imperialist powers often preceded…
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The American Pravda Sues The Trump Administration
In a recent executive order, President Trump called for an end to taxpayer funding of NPR and “public” television (PBS),…
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