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Be at War with Your Vices: Benjamin Franklin's New Year's Challenge

Be at War with Your Vices: Benjamin Franklin’s New Year’s Challenge

Benjamin Franklin's timeless lessons, drawn from his legendary Poor Richard’s Almanack, continue to inspire and guide us nearly 300 years after its first publication ...
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A Single Step: The Ancient Wisdom that Won American Independence

A Single Step: The Ancient Wisdom that Won American Independence

From the Revolution back to ancient Greece, the Founders knew the score: once government seizes power, it keeps growing and it never gives it back ...
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The Regulator War of 1771: A Forgotten Rebellion Against Corruption

The Regulator War of 1771: A Forgotten Rebellion Against Corruption

There are many events in the history of the formation of this Republic that go unnoticed, unremembered, and unheralded. Today is a chance to remedy that and remember the Regulators ...
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Bill of Rights: Born From the Fight Over Delegated and Reserved Powers

Bill of Rights: Born From the Fight Over Delegated and Reserved Powers

That fight got settled with a deal. And the deal's centerpiece - the answer that saved ratification - was the Tenth Amendment. Understanding this forgotten debate reveals how the entire ...
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Consolidation: George Mason's Core Anti-Federalist Warning

Consolidation: George Mason’s Core Anti-Federalist Warning

Mason’s primary objection? Consolidation - the fundamental shift from a union of sovereign states (a confederation) to a centralized national government. This, he warned, was a rejection of the principles ...
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True Loyalty vs Sedition and Treason

True Loyalty vs Sedition and Treason

Decades before the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Adams understood the foundation of what became the American Revolution. It was a complete rejection of the ancient mode of humanity - allegiance ...
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The Constitution and the Trump Tariffs

The Constitution and the Trump Tariffs

The President reads Congress's delegation of authority correctly, but Congress's delegation goes beyond that permitted in the Constitution ...
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What Really Makes a "Land of the Free"

What Really Makes a “Land of the Free”

In his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, John Dickinson defined a true “land of the free.” In doing so, he exposed the trap governments use to establish tyranny, and ...
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A Gift to be Thankful For: Our Natural Rights Foundation

A Gift to be Thankful For: Our Natural Rights Foundation

The Founders left us something extraordinary. Not just a country. Not just a Constitution. They handed down a complete understanding of natural rights and the law of nature - principles ...
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Enemy Within: The Greatest Danger to Liberty

Enemy Within: The Greatest Danger to Liberty

The Founders knew the score. History is littered with power-hungry rulers who use deception. They stage false flags. They manufacture crises or exploit real ones. The worst of them pretend ...
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Ignorance and Freedom Cannot Coexist

Ignorance and Freedom Cannot Coexist

Getting the job done won’t be quick and it won’t be easy. We're all victims of a government-run “education” system. So there's no shame in starting from scratch.  ...
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What FDR Did to Our Money

What FDR Did to Our Money

When we examine what his paper-money system has done to the value of people’s money, we can understand why the Framers and our American ancestors were so ardently opposed to ...