I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender. I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year, would, in case of war, be hard on us. But not so hard as ten wars instead of one.
– Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Taylor [November 26, 1798]
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September 10, 2025The Benefit of the Drug War to Donald Trump
From the standpoint of many U.S. officials, one can easily see why they find the drug war advantageous. Like the drug lords and drug cartels, there is a huge drug-war federal bureaucracy that has grown dependent on the drug war. There are, for example, generous salaries for federal judges (plus lifetime appointments), federal prosecutors, DEA agents, court clerks and secretaries, law clerks, and ...
Trump Watch: The Drug-War Racketby Jacob G. Hornberger
In this week's Trump Watch, Jacob shows how President Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment are using ...
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The evils of public education have been well-chronicled, so I won’t beat that proverbial dead horse here. I am just wondering why Christians keep ...
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In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the ramifications of President Trump's decision to send ...
A Call to Arms — Taking Back Economics by Angelo Monaco
As many of the Keynesian theories were being intellectually upended by the events of the 1970s, one could see a shift in the direction ...
