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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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The Tariff Tax Statistic the Trump Fanboys Don’t Want You to Know About
FOX commentator Charles Payne recently repeated Pat Buchanan’s old post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy (After this, therefore because of this) about…
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