More and more people today are coming to the realization that the US is in a bit of a pickle. There are countless articles about a looming "fiscal cliff" or another "financial crisis" from a wide range of pundits, economists and prognosticators. Candidates promise to fix things, ...Read More...

The bill for establishing a National Bank undertakes among other things: To form the subscribers into a corporation. To enable them in their corporate capacities to receive grants of land; and so far is against the laws of Mortmain. (1) To make alien subscribers capable of holding lands, and ...Read More...

Those of us embroiled in a sea of regulation may take little comfort from the fact that the Founding Fathers intended only three branches of government. In Article 1 of the US Constitution, the separation of powers is clearly delineated into the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government ...Read More...

Why the Constitutional Argument From Article 1, Section 8 Has Never Been Made Against the Last Three Central Banks in United States history. Jefferson may have been the first honest politician who was tricked by a lie from Congress, when he believed what Congress adopted in the language of the bill ...Read More...

A well informed citizenry is a critical key to the preservation of liberty and freedom. If we know what has happened in the past, we are less likely to repeat mistakes and more likely to repeat successes. Here's a quiz from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) that will test how "wise ...Read More...

THOMAS JEFFERSON At 5, began studying under his cousins tutor. At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French. At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages. At 16, entered the College of William and Mary. At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe. At ...Read More...

Kim Holmes, Heritage Foundation Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, and Director of The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, spoke about the 2011 version of the Index of Economic Freedom in Nashville recently. Unfortunately, the inventor of economic ...Read More...

Americans look to John F. Kennedy as being one of the great heroes of the last century.  At a White House dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners on April 29, 1962, Jack Kennedy said: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered ...Read More...

An excellent video by Author Jeffrey A Tucker. How Government is Unraveling Civilization by Force. The Delusion of Good Government. Presented at "The Delusion of Good Government": the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club. ...Read More...

This post speaks to the issue of over-reaching by our federal government as it manipulates situations to get their way and bend the law to do it. According to Article 1, Section 9 of the US Constitution, "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." A bill of attainder is ...Read More...