Ron Paul thinks it is possible and after a lot of reading the past 5+ years I agree with him.
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This is a chapter from John Stuart Mill’s Considerations on Representative Government, taken from the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection. An interesting read and particularly applicable to today’s America.
Chapter 16
Of Nationality, as connected with Representative Government.
A PORTION of mankind may be said to constitute a Nationality if they are united among themselves by [...]
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Igor Pararin has been in the news a lot the past two months for his remarks on the breakup of the United States. The recent report in the Wall Street Journal expands on Igor’s previous comments and sets his prediction for 2010 when the USA will finally collapse.
In September 1998, he attended a conference in [...]
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“When the Round Table is broken every man must follow Galahad or Mordred; middle things are gone.”
-C.S. Lewis
A writer at the journal First Things gives an explanation in this article:
“His point was that the time may come when the societal bonds are so ruptured that forceful confrontation will become necessary with those who, until then, [...]
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Today’s stock market rally was predicted by blogger Vox Day last week. I have read his blog occasionally for the past few years but only recently did I start seeing posts about Austrian economics and notice that he really does understand how the market works. The truth is the market has a long way to [...]
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A great article on the real meaning of Thanksgiving:
The less industrious members of the colony came late to their work in the fields, and were slow and easy in their labors. Knowing that they and their families were to receive an equal share of whatever the group produced, they saw little reason to be more [...]
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Deflation is not the evil people and economists make it out to be. The same economists who say “inflate, zero percent interest rates now!!” are the ones who said everything was perfect in the economy during the 2003-2005 period.
The market is demanding inflation because the money supply has been too large. The supply of money [...]
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Taken from an LRC post. Note “The” president.
“I sincerely believe … that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” — Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816.
“Paper is poverty,… it [...]
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This might throw the history books for a loop.
Scientists are baffled after carbon dating showed the skull, a woman’s which was found near the country’s capital, Wellington, dates back from 1742 – decades before Cook’s Pacific expedition arrived in 1769.
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Two articles today gave me some new thoughts on the problems with democracy and the crumbling of the Republic. First, a critique of the idea of democracy by Charley Reese:
We are and always have been too large a country [...]
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A large number (but not a majority) of Americans are still supporters of secession. The breakdown on who supports it and who is against it is here.
Secession was the foundation of America in 1776. The year 1787 and 1861 became the years of anti-secession and rampant big government nationalism.
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A conservative says it is a good thing that a prosecutor for the International Criminal Court wants to bring down the leader of Sudan.
Let’s turn the tables.
If the ICC wanted to prosecute Donald Rumsfield for torture (a similar thing happened one time), would this guy still be for the ICC having that kind of power? [...]
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The United States is not a capitalist nation. The government refuses to let the two biggest lenders to new homeowners fail because the government is just “too big to fail” at any given point. Fannie and Freddie are getting a bailout and it is a bad policy decision on the side of the White House [...]
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This speaks multitudes about our worst Founding Father who lied through his teeth as he wrote the Federalist papers:
Biographer Ron Chernow calls Hamilton, a mercantilist who publicly rebuked the writings of Adam Smith, “the prophet of the capitalist [...]
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The Return of Rightwing Paranoia
Anthony Gregory points out that conservatives now oppose the state despite Obama enacting Bush-like policies. Most importantly, conservatives must learn to oppose aggressive foreign policy during this era that they are out of power, less they make the same mistakes as last time.
The conservatives [...]
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