“The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.” — Milton Friedman
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Memorial Day Speech At Keene, New Hampshire — 1884
Below are the opening and concluding paragraphs from “In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire”, a speech delivered by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr....
Who are the real fascists? Fascism is a tool of the Democrats
Fascism is a tool of the Democrats. Robert Paxton said this in his book, The Anatomy of Fascism: “It may be that the earliest phenomenon...
Why humans are susceptible to ideas strange and dangerous
Ideas strange and dangerous abound in most human populations. We need something to believe in, but believing in things that distort reality only takes us...
A Government Program That Went Badly Awry
A Government Program That Went Badly Awry Historian Art Cashin: In 1349, in the midst of the infamous Black Plague epidemic, the forces of government,...
Death Sets A Thing Significant
A few years ago I read about a woman whose boyfriend died of cancer. She has saved all of the email and text messages they...
History Lesson On The American Founding, Slavery and the Civil War
Born out of the differing interpretations of the Civil War and slavery between White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Democrat Senator Tim Kaine...
Not sure Trump Understands the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Trump may not have a full grasp of the Iraeli-Palistinian conflict but that’s not really criticism. Almost nobody understands it even though it’s not very...
What the Hell Has Happened to the Southern Poverty Law Center?
On June 18, 1984 Denver radio talk-show host Alan Berg was gunned down in his driveway. Bruce Pierce pumped 13 bullets into Alan Berg. To...
The Ghost in the Machine
The machine is your brain and the ghost is the most primitive part of the human brain consisting of the Thalmus, Hypothalamus, Cerebellum and other...
Pivotal Dates In American History — 1787, 1854, and 1932
Big things happened in 1787, 1854, and 1932: 1787 — The Continental Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance. The purpose of the NWO was enacted to...
Historical facts that get lost in the historical narrative
In a very good piece from the Politico, How Obama Manipulates the News, Jack Shafer recounts how Obama and his flunky foreign advisor Ben Rhodes...