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A Taste of the Partisan Trends in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Part 1.
A historical analysis that covers the underlying roots and foundations of our modern two party system could take a thick book. No one wants to read a thick book from a blog page. So I summarize. The...
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I’m a Republican! (What does that even mean?)
To be frank, Republican is not really a political theory. At its best it is a structure of government. At its worst it is a political party. And political parties are the epitome of dirty rotten...
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Gary North on the “Anti-Gold bugs” during the Roosevelt Administration
Dr. Gary North is an excellent economist and historian. He had a wonder piece this morning here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north1199.html Below is an excerpt: The anti-gold bugs have been...
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Justice: American Style. The Backdrop and Analysis of the US in Libya.
Is 9/11 (2012) the new “9/11″? In other words, is this new Libyan attack on the US consulate a bigger deal than the Twin Tower attack in 2001? I doubt it. But Obama’s response to Tuesday’s attack was...
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The Irony of “Constitution Day”
In 2004, an omnibus spending bill was passed that included a mandate that all public educational institutions teach or provide lessons regarding the Constitution of the United States. One year later,...
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Four Theories of Economic Growth
There are various theories as to how to make an economy grow. In school, it is taught that there are two: socialism and capitalism. In reality however, it is not that simple. I think it is far...
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The United State’s Four Structures of Monetary Control After World War I.
After the institution of the Federal Reserve and the First World War, the Federal Monopoly on money was, over the course of the 20th century, given more power than any other central bank in the history...
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John Tyler: Forgotten Man of the South (part 1)
Recently, I have been conducting a deep analysis of Presidential history and am aiming to soon post a liberty-minded ranking of the United States Presidents. One of the two best presidents- of which I...
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The Free Market as the Origin of Money
Today when we think of money, we think of green slips of paper. But is that really the best way to think of money? Where does money come from and is there such a thing as money independent of the......
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My Response to a “Dramatic” and Provoking Blog Post
I was sent a link to a post on a blog (linked at the bottom) that I had never heard of before. Intrigued, I read it quickly. I read it again. And then again. The hardest part about reading a... Read...
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The Federal Monopoly on an Unconstitutional Currency
Since the Constitution does not give the Federal Government the power to create a central bank (which was a topic of much debate between the Federalist Alexander Hamilton and the Anti-federalist Thomas...
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Toward a Clearer Picture of Conservative and Liberal
The words and labels by which we identify ourselves, whether it be politically or theologically, are important to define before they can be committed to. In this case I want to take on the ideological...
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The Federal Reserve’s Monopolization on the Dollar
The Federal Reserve, which was created in 1913, began to issue paper notes as part of its aim to control the supply of money in the United States. Their long term goals however were to be developed in...
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A Bretton Woods Transcript
In a curious article put forth the New York Times, it has been announced that a transcript of the Bretton Woods conference has been recently discovered. In the article, the author reminded me of an...
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“We’re all Lutherans Now.”
In December of 1965, Monetarist economist Milton Friedman wrote an article in which sat the now famous and oft-quoted exclamation: “We’re all Keynesians now!” Being that he was surely not a Keynesian,...
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In Lieu of All the Secession Talk
Hans-Hermann Hoppe: “It might be argued that Mises’ definition of democratic government was applicable to the U.S. until 1861. Until then, it was generally held that the right to secession existed and...
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The Lack of Contemporary Systematic Thinking
In the preface to Man, Economy, and State, economist, historian, and social theorist (among many other things) Murray Rothbard laments the loss of “old-fashioned treatise on economic ‘principles’”...
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The Great Thanksgiving Hoax -by Richard J. Maybury
The best intentions cannot persuade an impossible system to work. The Puritans had a vision of a collective society in their early years in the New World. They had to learn the hard way that “from...
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The Lincoln Movie: A Review
As I walked away from the movie, an older man behind me whispered to his friend: “that movie should have come out ten years ago. What a needed story for our time.” Needed? I’m not so sure. But the...
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Curious Connections and Recent Roots of Two Movements
I’ve lately become quite curious about the connection between the Christian presuppositions and the world of libertarian political philosophy including the economic theories of the “Austrians.”...
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