Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in History on Sep 6th, 2011
If we’re gonna make bumper stickers, then let’s make some bumper stickers. Here is the muse: Roosevelt fed the hysteria by claiming that he possessed a “secret map” showing Nazi plans to conquer South and Central America, as well as secret documents proving that Hitler planned to supplant all existing religions with a Nazi Church […]
Posted in History, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Sep 1st, 2011
In a series of posts in the coming weeks, I will provide some selected observations on some of history’s “Great Leaders” as described in Ralph Raico’s invaluable revisionist work, Great Wars and Great Leaders. Readers who are interested in catching a glimpse of the reality of the mind and actions of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin […]
Posted in Government Thuggery, History, Welfare State, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Aug 31st, 2011
Here begins the presentation of a cornucopia of less well-know acts committed by the “greatest” Presidents in American history. To get us started, here is President Bush’s unconstitutional assault on limited executive power and the privacy of American citizens: This organization (the influential Friends of Democracy) won the gushing plaudits of the ever-gushing Mrs. President. […]
Posted in History on Aug 23rd, 2011
In case anyone is in the mood to deepen their state of depression, you can do no better than to read Hunt Tooley’s book, The Western Front. A particular gem comes from page 43, where Tooley is describing for us the popularity of the first World War among certain groups at home. Here is Ralph […]
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, History on Aug 8th, 2011
Much of modern anti-capitalist thought came out of the Industrial Revolution. Indeed, the modern notions of socialism have their roots in the early 19th century thoughts and writings of Saint-Simon, Fourier and others. The highpoint for this thinking probably occurred during the Revolutions of 1848 that spread through Europe. That is also the same year […]
Posted in Development, History on Jun 10th, 2011
(wintercow: This is part 2 of a series from guest blogger Michael Marotta). Detroit was unimportant when the Federal Reserve Board was created in 1912. Federal Reserve Banks were established in Cleveland and Chicago, also both St. Louis and Kansas City; but, like the entire West between Dallas and San Francisco, Michigan was still an economic […]
Posted in Development, History on Jun 9th, 2011
(wintercow: I have asked Michael Marotta to put together a few posts on his observations from living in Michigan, this is part 1 of a 2 part series) Every Labor Day since 1961, several thousand Michiganders walk across the Mackinac (rhymes with Saginaw; honest) Bridge that ties the “U.P.” (Upper Peninsula) with the “Mitten” (Lower […]
The Start of the Great Depression by Michael E. Marotta (This presentation originally appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of the Mich-Matist of the Michigan State Numismatic Society.) No mythology faces fewer challenges than the folktale of The Great Depression. The Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, pointed out in Human Action that capitalists and socialists […]
Posted in History on Apr 5th, 2011
Would the passage of such a law imply that the reverse were acceptable? I got to thinking about it because this is indeed how many people interpret the Constitution. Article 1, Section 8 outlines the things that Congress may explicitly do. Article 1, Section 10 outlines the things that the state legislators may not do […]
Posted in History on Mar 23rd, 2011
One of the major myths of the “high school” version of the causes of the Great Depression is that the 1920s was a period of false prosperity, and it was the excessive dependence on consumer credit which ultimately led to “overconsumption” for which we suffered the hangover for during the 1930s. Ironically, this gets the […]
