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Aug
01
Liberty Summit: August 2010
I will be speaking at the Liberty Summit 2010 in Orlando, Florida on August 14. The event will be held from 13 August to 15 August and will feature Ron Paul on August 13 and Tom Woods on August 14. For more information, please visit the website.
Aug
01
Recent Articles
My recent articles from Townhall.com and ConstitutingAmerica.org:
Apr
19
The Supremacy Clause
My article at www.tenthamendmentcenter.com on the Supremacy Clause to the Constitution. Enjoy!
Mar
10
The Calamity of Appomattox by H.L. Mencken
I am posting the entire text of the article here, but I took this from the H.L. Mencken Society’s page. This piece appeared in The American Mercury, September 1930.
The Calamity of Appomattox
by H.L. Mencken
[From the American Mercury, Sept., 1930, pp. 29-31]
No American historian, so far as I know, has ever tried to work out the probable consequences if Grant instead of Lee had been on the hot spot at Appamattox. How long would the victorious Confederacy have endured? Could it have surmounted the difficulties inherent in the doctrine of States’ Rights, so often inconvenient and even paralyzing to it during the war? Could it have remedied its plain economic deficiencies, and become a self-sustaining nation? How would it have protected itself against such war heroes as Beauregard and Longstreet, Joe Wheeler and Nathan D. Forrest? And what would have been its relations to the United States, socially, economically, spiritually and politically?
I am inclined, on all these counts, to be optimistic. The chief evils in the Federal victory lay in the fact, from which we still suffer abominably, that it was a victory of what we now call Babbitts over what used to be called gentlemen. I am not arguing here, of course, that the whole Confederate army was composed of gentlemen; on the contrary, it was chiefly made up, like the Federal army, of innocent and unwashed peasants, and not a few of them got into its corps of officers. But the impulse behind it, as everyone knows, was essentially aristocratic, and that aristocratic impulse would have fashioned the Confederacy if the fortunes of war had run the other way. Whatever the defects of the new commonwealth below the Potomac, it would have at least been a commonwealth founded upon a concept of human inequality, and with a superior minority at the helm. It might not have produced any more Washingtons, Madisons, Jeffersons, Calhouns and Randolphs of Roanoke, but it would certainly not have yielded itself to the Heflins, Caraways, Bilbos and Tillmans.
Feb
18
Newest Articles
My most recent posts on LewRockwell.com, Townhall.com, and TenthAmendmentCenter.com
Decentralization: For Humanity’s Sake
Solidifying the Cult of Lincoln
Funding the Aristocracy: Nancy Pelosi and Taxpayer Joy Rides
Jan
27
My Recent Articles
It’s been a while since I posted, but here are links to my recent articles on LewRockwell.com and Townhall.com.
Oct
12
G. Gordon Liddy Podcast
Thanks to G. Gordon Liddy for the interview today. I had fun. Listen to the Podcast here.
Oct
10
Obama and the Prize
The selection of Barack Obama for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize should not be a shock, nor should it concern conservative Americans. Since the news hit yesterday, there have been countless references to a Ronald Reagan snub and outright dismay and indignation that someone who helped “end the Cold War” has yet to be recognized while an international newbie like Obama has been awarded the “highest” honor of peace. News flash: the Nobel Peace Prize has always been an award bestowed upon progressive globalists. Progressives have the home field advantage, and the award is often a farce and a rigged selection. A brief analysis of past winners should alleviate the outrage radiating from conservative circles.
Sep
20
Now What About the Other Czars? Kill the Root
Van Jones resigned his position, the era of big government is over, and we can party like it’s 1789! Or not. Jones deserved to go, and should have been nowhere near the executive office in the first place, but rejoicing over his ouster is like stuffing bubble gum in a twenty foot hole in the Hoover Dam. Jones was a symptom of the larger problem, unconstitutional government, and his dismissal won’t stop the flood. He will be replaced with another “czar” in the same position, will still have Barack Obama’s ear, and Obama has yet to fire the other 31 unconstitutional “czars.” The prescription for the problem, however, can be found in the actions of the Founding Fathers and in the founding principles of the United States.
