History
No Deal for Gun Control: North Carolina and the “Wicked Rebellion” Against the British
NO DEAL – That was the response from the Sons of Liberty and other North Carolina patriots in 1776 to a British “offer” – surrender your guns, abandon your allies, give up your right to local self-government – in exchange for a promise of...
Precedent: Letting Yesterday’s Crimes Justify Tomorrow’s Tyranny
“One of the vilest systems that can be set up.” That’s how Thomas Paine described government by precedent – when government uses power not because it’s authorized, but because someone else got away with it first. No constitution. No...
Arbitrary Power: The Definition of Tyranny
“The curse and scandal of human nature.” That’s how James Otis, Jr. described arbitrary power. It wasn’t just a sign of tyranny, or a step toward it. It was the very definition of tyranny. It is power without right. And that principle pervades the Declaration of...
How British Gun Control was the Spark that Started the War for Independence
It was gun control. That’s what kicked off the fighting at Lexington and Concord – and started the War for Independence. But they never teach that in government-run schools. It’s almost as if they want you to believe the Founders fought a long, bloody war just...