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Yesterday? Robber barons who used money to buy politicians and destroy competition. Today? Robber baron public employee unions who use money to buy politicians and screw the taxpayers. Like I said, I like this guy Bill Whittle. Makes a lot of sense. It’s nice to hear about the self-organizing Third Wave building in opposition to …
“The corrupt alliance of money and political power.” Read More »
Dr. Tom Woods is the author of 11 books, holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard and a Masters of Philosophy and Ph.D from Columbia University. A senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, ("…the world center of the Austrian School of economic [free markets] and libertarian political and social theory…". He is …
Guest post by ‘Grok friend, Matt Kittredge Our Elastic Constitution in Crisis and the GOP In 1803, after much thought, Jefferson signed a treaty with France, purchasing the Louisiana Territory without express Constitutional Authority. When he sent the treaty to the Senate, it was ratified. He later wrote, "[a] strict observance of the written law …
Guest post: “Our Elastic Constitution in Crisis and the GOP” Read More »
A few years ago, our great local writer, PJ O’Rourke did all of us free market types a big favor by "reading Adam Smith’s ‘The Wealth of Nations’, so you don’t have to". (‘On the Wealth of Nations’, 2006) In a similar vein, Tad Lumpkin, Harold Uhl, the producers of the cartoon "The American Dream" …
South Park Meets the Creature from Jekyll Island Read More »
House Bill 125-FN, commonly referred to as the, Lawful Commerce In Firearms Act eminently faces a house vote. Much has been said about the bill while, at the same time, much has not been said about this bill.
(H/T: Townhall) In the same vein, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), a TEA Party favorite, showed once again that this freshman class may not have to work long to show that it has already earned its chops. With the decision of Judge Vinson in Florida that since the Individual Mandate in Obamacare is unconstitution, the whole …
Sources in the State House have suggested to me that Dan Itse’s HB 73, ‘An Act establishing a process for recall of US Senators from New Hampshire, may be opposed by the Republican House leadership.
Rep. Al Baldasaro’s committee, the Committee on State and Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs, is going to be holding a subcommittee hearing tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. in Room 203 of the Legislative Office Building for HB89,
Given that the Republicans in the US House just had their Constitution reading, many of the Liberals have brought out the canard that since Republicans (and by association, TEA Partiers) with to go back to when Constitutional values held sway, we all must be in favor of going back to slavery at worst, and at …
Reading the Constitution to progressives on the floor of the US House is like a priest reading from the bible at an exorcism. They scream out and writhe, swear, insult, spew hatred, and do everything in their power to intimidate you before you can get to the end. They started screaming days ago, actually.
