“[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…)

“The Puritans came to America deeply rooted in the Hebraic tradition.” (more…)

“For the first time in history a civilized nation will have full gun control, our police will be more efficient, our streets will be safer, and the world will follow our lead into the future.” –ADOLPH HITLER (1935) (more…)