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Foreign Trade: Constitutional Responsibility of the Congress and the Basis of Regulation and Duties

There is much discussion about the proper role of our Federal Government in the oversight and regulation of trade policy, as well as on the revenue created from Foreign trade, called "duties, excises, imposts." Here directly excerpted from the Const

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How Strange Can It Get?

Some people believe in the Six Degrees of Separation Theory: the idea that everyone in the world is separated from everyone else by six links.  Some people believe all of us are in this thing together, and that diversity is our strength and I am he a

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A Government of Fallible Men to Rule Fallible Men

In America today a debate rages concerning the legitimate role of government.  Currently the Federal Government is controlled by a group of politicians who consider themselves the ideological descendants of the Progressive Movement. 

Beginning in the

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To Write the Future Read the Past

Unfortunately most of what we are taught in History survey classes in American schools consists of simplistic formulas.  Formulas designed to persuade those forced to attend the government controlled education mills that they should ride the same ide

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Hitler Mussolini FDR and Obama

Many people today feel as if President Obama has been leading America covertly into the Socialism Bernie is overtly proclaiming.  Many feel that they are no longer living in the America of their youth.  To understand how we got here it is necessary t

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The Empire Swallowed the Republic

Take a look at the size of the defense budget in America today as a percentage of federal spending.   

In 2015 it accounted for 53.71% of the entire budget.  Now try to image what would happen to our economy if that spending was stopped and not immedi

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What Can’t happen Here Did

Revolutions happened in other countries.  That great slave house of nations the USSR, their satellite countries in Eastern Europe and Asia, African countries and of course those banana republics somewhere down south but one thing is for sure, it can’

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Why They Lie To Us

There are some things that are more than uncomfortable, they are almost unbearable.   

One of those things is poverty.  They say if all you have ever known is poverty it isn’t so bad because you don’t know any better.  I always think that people who s

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It Is Time to Put the Limit Back in Limited Government

I own a small farm, a berry patch to be exact, and for the particular type of berry that I grow it is much more profitable to market them as organic.  I grow everything organically out of choice.  However to market anything as organic the operation m

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The Abomination of Obamanation

I have often said in the pages of these Dispatches from the past to the future that nations are not judged by the sin that is in them for the same sin is within all of us.  Neither are societies judged by the sins that are committed by those who form

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The Hope That Does Not Disappoint

Listening to the lies of the politicians as presented by the prattle of the biased it is easy to lose hope in a secular sense.  My hope in an eternal sense is founded on the rock of an unshakable faith in Jesus, and so it cannot be shaken.  However,

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Good Bye America It Was Good to Know You

It used to be that as one grew older their experience developed wisdom that could help guide succeeding generations.  Today the world moves too fast.  In some ways my 10 year old granddaughter knows more intuitively about computers than I do after wo

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Wisconsin Democratic D.A. Targets Conservatives.

The author calls it Totalitarianism. A Wisconsin District Attorney uses police forces with battering rams to Bust in to houses in the middle of the night. Are we seeing a shift to an era of Jackbooted Thuggery in America? Well we had better be alert

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Cuba: Nothing has Changed.

We see that Cuba is still the thug of the hemisphere. We have an example here provided by Investor's Business Daily. (IBD)

 

And this happens regularly in Cuba. A Cuban protest was met with similar reprisal in Washington, DC in the past in the face o

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Does the Sun Set in the West

I have taught the history of Western Civilization for many years.  I praise God that I have taught at institutions that allowed me to teach this history without the disdain that is often heaped upon what some call Eurocentric culture.  Personally I b

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We Need More of Moore

The Ninth Amendment to the Constitution states that, “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

This past Sunday Chris Wallace interviewed Alabama Chief Justice

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How Do We Get Back to Where We Were?

It’s hard to be a conservative when there’s little left to conserve.  The increasing pace of America’s progression from free markets to a command economy has reached such a pace and become so obvious that way back in 2009 the Russian Prime Minister u

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Bankrupt Who’s Bankrupt?

A few years ago, with tongue securely in cheek, I wrote about the Fed buying Treasury Bonds.  I tried using the absurd to make a point.  I explained this would be like issuing your own credit card, buying everything you want, paying for the credit ca

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Do You have Hope?

Marching out of Yorktown to surrender the British Army played the song “The World Turned Upside Down.”  As I drive to Meg Lo Mart to make my latest deposit of monopoly money in a Chinese savings account all I can do is mumble the final tag-line of th

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What Happens When Progressives Tax (and Spend)

As Rush Limbaugh so rightly pointed out, “No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.”

So many people have accepted the argument that progressive taxation is just, necessary, and fair, so I know this article will offend many.  Hopefully it will

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