Jonah Goldberg put a lot of effort into this book. Instead of writing a polemic diatribe against the nasty left, he took his time and meticulously researched and documented the lineage of the present day progressive. The book is shocking in its simplicity. The facts are there for anyone honest enough to search them out. The insidious aspect of the tactics used by modern day progressives is that the facts are actually unimportant, the issues are actually unimportant. These modern day versions of Mussolini don't differ much in their opinions about the pragmatic nature of their philosophy.   Read the rest of this entry »

Author Walter Isaacson's treatment of Franklin is deft, insightful, and fair. He neither engages in hagiography or revisionism. After reading this book, one gets a very good sense of Franklin's character and personality. It contains enough historical detail and explanation of the events occurring in the subject's lifetime to give meaning to his words and deeds. The incidental coverage of John Adams is especially interesting when taken in context with McCullough's biography.   Read the rest of this entry »

This is something that may be impossible to do.  The numbers are astounding.  According to the US Treasury, we now owe more than 12 Trillion, 322 Billion, 720 Thousand dollars.  This represents the principal amount of marketable and non-marketable securities …

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This quote from George Washington seems apropos to the people of Massachusetts given the results of Tuesday’s special election.

An innate spirit of freedom first told me that the measures which [the] administration have for some time been and now …

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This essay was written by Benjamin Franklin in 1766.  The context was  the imposition of  strict regulations by the British on colonial trade, in particular farmers seemed to bear the brunt of the burden.  Here is an excerpt …

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I have been doing a lot of thinking about the path that we are headed down.  For years I have stuck my head in the sand, avoided the news, avoided talk radio, and listened to books on tape during …

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Jun 9, 2008

If there was any prestige in having a journal entry dedicated to you, I’d have to dedicate this one to a reader who sent me a message asking me what the status was on this project.

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March 31, 2008

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Mar 19. 2008

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