“Where’s mah subsidy?” There is no place in government, with the exception of the military, where supposed “conservatives” more exploit taxpayer funded welfare than in the Ag Department programs. It is ridiculous. Food, like anything, should be subject to the...
The FDR New Dealer who launched the “War on Drugs.” But that’s big government for you. Drugs are supposed to be an issue left to the states. That is the constitutional position in our estimation. The prohibitionists had to pass...
My grandmother considered FDR to be a near dictator, if not a dictator. Of course many people loved FDR. But many people loved Mussolini, Juan Peron, and Fidel Castro too. Read more…
If there was anything that turned me down the path to libertarianism as a young buck it was learning of the forced internment of Japanese-American CITIZENS in camps under FDR. It is such a shameful chapter in American history and...
It was the internment of Japanese AMERICANS by the US government under FDR that started me down my small government path back when I was barely a teenager. I just could not believe that US citizens were forced into concentration...
Good question. And one that bears directly on the kind of employment depression we are continuing to experience today. The article below, a review of a new book by Charles Rappleye, is titled “In Defense of Herbert Hoover.” The reviewer,...
(The was a post on Facebook from Lawrence Reed at FEE) April 5 is yet another “day that will live in infamy.” On this date in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, which criminalized the possession of monetary gold....
This is an issue which we need to revisit soon, and we will at greater length. And there is is some validity to this fear. First, the Crash of 2008 was a crash caused by central planning. It was the...
To our liberal friends out there I ask for your indulgence. I have been thinking quite a lot about the presidency over the last couple of days and the power we have vested in the institution. (Or perhaps more accurately...
The story of the forced internment of Japanese Americans, American citizens, probably most of them born in this country, many multiple generations deep in the USA, is one of the things which sent me down the small government road way...
An important distinction and grist for the ongoing discussion of “fascism” on this site. Logan Albright explains the difference in the context of the current Export-Import Bank debate. Read more…
Anyone who has read us for a while knows that we tend to skew toward the small government side of the political spectrum. Learning in high school of the forcible internment of Japanese-American US citizens during World War 2 was...
FDR, the man who studied Mussolini, who birthed the current intrusive state, who started the drug war in earnest, who put Japanese Americans into concentration camps, who extended the Depression years longer than it needed to be and thereby contributed...
Art by Nyte Walka. Veroniqe de Rugy in the attached article observes that progressives, for the most part are not enemies of corporatism. In fact to a large degree they are enablers of corporatism. With the expansion of the state...
