War Powers: The True History of Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates
People on both the left and the right claim the president possesses significant, unilateral power over military action, and they support this myth by perpetuating a big lie – that Thomas Jefferson did the same in response to the Barbary Pirates.Β But like so...
War and Big Government Go Hand-In-Hand
War and big government go hand-in-hand. James Madison warned us. “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.” Madison specifically notes that wars require armies,...
Obsta Principiis: Have We Waited too Long to Save Our Constitution and Our Freedom?
The spirit of liberty is, and ought to be, a jealous, a watchful spirit.Β Obsta PrincipiisΒ is her motto and maxim; knowing that her enemies are secret and cunning, making the earliest advances slowly, silently and softly, and that according to her unerring oracle...