“The Pledge of Allegiance is once again in the news. David Habecker, a council member in Estes Park, Colorado, has decided not to stand to say the Pledge because he has a problem with the addition of “under God” to the original version. As a result, there is a recall effort under way. Habecker would be on more solid ground if he had refused to say the Pledge because of its socialist origin. Let me explain.” (more…)

“Imagine the following scenario: At church this Sunday, while reviewing the list of announcements and upcoming events for your church, your pastor added, ‘Oh, and don’t forget: on Sundays we have our regular target practice. Make sure to bring your rifles. Make sure to bring your pieces to church.’

“Absurd, right? Not so. It used to be the American way. For example, a 1631 law in Virginia required citizens to own firearms, to engage in practice with them, and to do so publicly on holy days. It demanded that the people ‘bring their pieces to the church.’ Somewhere along the line we have lost this mindset. Today the ideas of church and arms are assumed to be at odds, as if loving your neighbor has nothing to do with the preservation and defense of life and property.” (more…)

“[Kitty] Werthmann is the head of the South Dakota chapter of Eagle Forum, and was born in Austria. Werthmann lived for seven years under the Nazi rule of Austria, eventually coming to the United States…. She said conditions in 1930’s Austria were very difficult. Unemployment was high, food was short, and many businesses were going bankrupt. …” (more…)

“An anonymous Jefferson (who was vice president at the time) penned what became known as the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, which spelled out the objectionable aspects of the Alien and Sedition Acts as well as the states’ rightful response: nullification. Madison penned similar resolutions that were approved by the Virginia legislature. Although Virginia and Kentucky found little support in other states for these ideas in 1798, with the passage of time all sections of the country would appeal at one time or another to what became known as the ‘Principles of ’98.’

“You may have noticed that these ideas are rather out of fashion today on both left and right. Watkins, however, identifies these ideas as absolutely fundamental to American liberty and as legitimate means, faithful to the spirit of the Constitution, of preventing the expansion of the federal government.” (more…)

“First you need to ask, ‘Does the constitution matter to you?’ If you answered yes, you may ask, ‘but what can I do?’ Here is an idea for you. Nullification. The idea originally came from Hamilton in the Federalist #28.

“Being frustrated and angry is one thing, but to recognise that you have the power and ability to fix it yourself is another.” (more…)

“Ludwig von Mises was snubbed by economists world-wide as he warned of a credit crisis in the 1920s. We ignore the great Austrian at our peril today. (more…)

The modern, “official story is nothing like what really happened. It is a fairy tale, a whitewashed and sanitized collection of half-truths which divert attention away from Thanksgiving’s real meaning.” (more…)

“In other words, the introduction of the idea of private property saved the Pilgrims and made their experiment successful. … They went back to their Bibles and saw that in practicing utopian communism, they were attempting to be ‘wiser than God.’ Once they abandoned that deadly economic system, they flourished.” (more…)

“…[W]e may wish to find some lessons in this tale of [the] monetary policies of the late Roman Empire.” (more…)

“The ‘Mason-Dixon Line’ was to me an unscalable wall of separation between the socially sophisticated and open-minded North and the morally degenerate and bigoted South. It was a line I never wanted to cross. However, about fourteen years ago, I had a ‘great awakening.’” (more…)