Oh posterity, you will never know how much it cost us to preserve your freedom.  I hope that you will make a good use of it.  It you do not, I will repent in heaven that I took half the pains to preserve it.

So speaks John Adams in the last line of the [...]

“Lobbyists need something to buy, and legislators need something to sell.”
So described Milton Friedman our beltway government.  Lobbyists have clients who give them money to purchase advantage from legislators who are writing laws that affect them.  Legislators create laws that favor specific individuals and businesses that are represented by lobbyists.  With taxpayer money, they both prosper [...]

Jon Meacham, the editor of Newsweek,  and author of American Lion, Andrew Jackson in the White House, reviews Christianity, the First Three Thousand Years, by Diamond MacCulloch, in the New York Times Book Review, April 4, 2010.
Meacham tells us he is officially sympathetic to christianity.  ” I am an episcopalian who takes the faith of [...]

Many consider Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be  our third greatest president.  In books such as The New Dealers’s War,  Thomas Fleming, 2001, the forgotten man, Amity Shlaes, 2007, however, the case is being made that he is due for re-evaluation.
Not all went as well with FDR as we have been taught.  Unemployment was still 20% [...]

In October, 1959, Abraham Lincoln made his way to Milwaukee, and gave a remarkable speech to the Wisconsin Agricultural Society.  He went there to respond to charges that northern wage earners were no better off than southern slaves.  This was a time when the American industrialization was just beginning, when the entire economy was based [...]