Today in History: President Washington Issues Neutrality Proclamation
Today in history – on April, 22 1793 – President George Washington issued the Neutrality Proclamation, a statement that the United States would remain neutral in the ongoing conflict between France and Britain. However, a firestorm of controversy erupted...
Want War? You Pay for It!
James Madison warned us about the costs of war. War comes with an extremely high price tag. According to the Cost of War Project by the Watson Institute at Brown University, the U.S. spent $2.26 trillion on the war in Afghanistanย alone. That comes to over $300 million...
Benjamin Franklin on “Doing Good to the Poor”
The federal government lacks any legitimate constitutional authority to establish welfare programs for the poor. Not only that, the federal welfare system fails in its promise to “help the poor” out of poverty. Supporters of the expansive federal welfare...