U.S. History

Even though our legal authorities treat smugglers as criminals, smugglers actually are promoters of liberty who usually break unjust laws. The US was practically founded on smuggling.

Even though the US had a semilibertarian revolution, there are few libertarians in representative governance.

Most people believe that the state is a necessary entity for securing private property rights. However, a study of the American West before the territories became states shows us a different reality where communities protected their property without state intervention.

Unfortunately, these assaults on the First Amendment continue to find support even among people who pretend to be in support of freedom and opposed to federal power.

Progressive historians, journalists, and politicians claim that the Industrial Revolution and the growth of industry brought poverty and exploitation to American workers. The truth is much different, even if it is rarely heard.

On this day ninety-one years ago President Franklin D. Roosevelt via executive order seized gold legally held by Americans, criminalizing the use of sound money. Our economy and our nation has never recovered from this act.

Progressive historians, journalists, and politicians claim that the Industrial Revolution and the growth of industry brought poverty and exploitation to American workers. The truth is much different, even if it is rarely heard.

Why have some Americans opposed this nation’s involvement in foreign wars? According to Jacob Heilbrunn of The National Interest, it is because those Americans love bloody dictators like Adolph Hitler.

The government’s inflationary borrow-and-spend policies have given Americans a false sense of prosperity. In the end, such policies are unsustainable.

As progressives attempt to redefine racism to fit modern political fantasies, we need to look at historical examples of ethnic discrimination to better understand our current situation.