Today's Politicos vs The Words and Deeds of The Founders

The title of this blog is “What Would The Founders Think?”.  Of course, in order to understand what the founders would think of current events,  one has to understand a good deal of history, as well as to pay attention …

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Ira Stoll's biography of Samuel Adams covers the tremendous contribution of this oft overlooked and unheralded founding father. Unlike McCullough's tome on his more lauded cousin, John Adams, Stoll's book is relatively short.

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Glenn Beck's Common Sense avoids the descent into mere diatribe. What's more it actually does compare favorably with Thomas Paine's pamphlet of the same name. However, Beck is explicit in calling out that he is not advocating for people to take up arms and revolt in the same way that the patriots of 1776 did. He is calling for people to get up and be heard before it's too late.

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“… Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a Government, which we might expect in a

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“The time for talk is over. It’s time to vote.”  That’s what President Obama shouted to a crowd in St. Charles Mo. on Wednesday.

Unless of course, you’re on the “right” side of the issue like he is.  …

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“Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course, the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be better observed, but their source by …

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R.J. Pestrito's Woodrow Wilson and Roots of Modern Liberalism is a short but thorough analysis of Wilson's political beliefs. It is not a polemical attack on Wilson, but rather an in-depth analysis of his philosophical underpinnings and the origins of modern liberalism.

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If there is a single word that describes the miasma that emanates from our nation’s capital, it would be arrogance. Not the arrogance of power, (though there is that, too) but the arrogance of the ideologue.

Russell Kirk,* in his …

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Not really, but it makes for a good title.  🙂

I just finished reading Paine’s Common Sense, and after witnessing some of the debate at the round table at Blair House and listening to the talking heads go on …

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