If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.
– James Madison, Letter to Edmund Pendleton [January 21, 1792]
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January 7, 2020 The Roots of U.S. Hatred Toward Iran
A question that naturally arises but one that the mainstream press never asks is: What is the reason for the deep-seated hatred that the U.S. national-security state has toward Iran? No, the answer doesn’t begin with the fact that Iranian revolutionaries took American diplomats hostage during the Iranian revolution in 1979, which is what the mainstream press often asserts. The ...
Nullify Government Tyranny
by John W. Whitehead
Twenty years into the 21st century, and what do we have to show for it? Government corruption, tyranny and ...
The Libertarian Angle - Socialism in America, Part 7
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
A majority of millennials approve of socialism, and progressives are gaining more influence with every election. What ...
In Defense of the Quid Pro Quo
by Richard M. Ebeling
For a good part of the second half of 2019, the news has been filled with Donald Trump’s perceived quid pro quo with the ...
Examples of Dedication to Freedom
by Richard M. Ebeling
When Austrian economist Friedrich A. Hayek (1899–1992) wrote his famous book The Road to Serfdom (1944) in the midst of the Second World War,...
