Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

A friend recently asked me to recommend a book that explains the Fed. In my efforts to find the best book to introduce the topic, I came upon this documentary. Although it must be several decades old, it clearly and thoroughly lays out the basics of money and the Fed and can serve as an (more…)

Ron Paul Video: "Ron Paul shames Santorum & Bachmann with Biblical argument of a Just War"

Here is a concise and lucid overview of the moral and legal bases of Ron Paul’s foreign policy position. (It really does look like Bachman and Santorum are passing notes to each other–probably saying something like, “Holy Crap! This guy actually BELIEVES this Bible stuff!”)
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"Not One Conservative Agrees with Ron Paul"

Sometimes talk radio makes me crazy! It didn’t always, though. As a matter of fact, I used to find great comfort in listening to my favorite hosts when I lived in Southern California. During those years, there were several hosts I relied on to keep me sane, one in particular I dubbed “the Voice of Reason.” These hosts’ rational arguments against the false hope of entitlements and the impossibility of a centrally-controlled economy provided me a constant palliative to all the liberal rhetoric to which I was daily exposed in LA. I sloughed off the growing social agenda these hosts seemed to be pushing and also decided to give the benefit of the doubt to Bush & Co. on invading Iraq–who was I to presume to understand the complexities of geopolitics? Eventually, however, I stopped listening to

Ron Paul on Piers Morgan 1/4/12

Piers Morgan asks Ron Paul what he thinks about Rick Santorum calling him “disgusting.” Also, toward the end of the interview, Morgan accuses Paul of being “completely unaware of what your staff are doing half the time” because a tweet dissing Jon Huntsman went out without Paul’s prior approval and was later deleted. In a slimy move, Morgan has Huntsman on a split screen watching Paul’s reaction. (The tweet is actually pretty funny: “@JonHuntsman, we found your one Iowa voter, he’s in Linn precinct 5 you might want to call him and say thanks.”) To his credit, Huntsman is a good sport, responding, “I have to tell you, at the end of the day, I actually found it to be pretty humorous.

Our Enemy the State

I recently found Our Enemy the State, by Albert Jay Nock, under a chair in my kids’ playroom–I must have bought it long ago and misplaced it. I flipped the book open to a chapter: “Politics and Other Fetiches,” and despite the unpromising chapter heading I was immediately riveted. Although written in 1935, Our Enemy (more…)