Issues
What FDR Did to Our Money
For more than 125 years, the United States had a gold-coin, silver-coin monetary system. No, it was not a paper-money system backed by gold, as so many mainstream commentators have been taught to believe. It was a system in which gold coins and silver coins were the...
Thomas Paine’s Forgotten Paper Money Takedown
“Money is Money, and Paper is Paper. All the invention of man cannot make them otherwise.” With those words, Thomas Paine went after what he saw as one of the greatest scams in history: governments claiming that paper is money. Through a series of...
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...
Report: 2024 Federal Gun Control Enforcement Fell Off But Remained Aggressive
Federal gun control enforcement actions by the ATF in the last year of the Biden administration dropped significantly, falling to levels not seen since before President Trump’s record-breaking crackdown in his first term. The drop marked the lowest level in at least...