I am posting today in support of a documentary film.

If you haven’t found hulu.com, you’re missing something pretty good. It allows you to watch TV shows, documentaries, and some movies via streaming high-res video…for free. It intersperses a few ads here and there.

I’ve seen a couple of good films from hulu, but this morning I watched one that is particularly appropriate for this blog. It is called A Divided America, and it outlines the political separation in America between the so-called “red state” vs. “blue state” mentalities.

Please take the time to watch. It is about 80 minutes long, but worth ..read more

The first 100 days–a phrase and a yardstick was invented for FDR in 1933. The nation, awash in crisis, looked to the new President for decisive action, for a sign of strength to stem the tide of panic.

Roosevelt delivered a strong reply. He delivered a strong reply which was (and remains) a strongly unconstitutional reply. His expansion of central federal power still haunts us today and still has us today struggling to figure out what’s wrong.

Our new President has been compared numerous times to FDR, and as such, many have looked to the First 100 Days as a yardstick to ..read more

Originally published by Greenspan in 1966…prior to his “conversion” to a Statist.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense – perhaps more clearly and subtly than many consistent defenders of laissez-faire – that gold and economic freedom are inseparable, that the gold standard is an instrument of laissez-faire and that each implies and requires the other.

In order to understand the source of their antagonism, it is necessary first to understand the specific role of gold in a free society.

Money is the common denominator of all economic transactions. ..read more