"You know, fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties. Number one being, you're fighting in a basement."
- Lt. Aldo Raine.
Like most libertarians, private property ownership and personnel security are two passions of mine where we all clearly benefit from always having an exit plan.
"Just if we saw Confederacy named in it, we then highlighted it" says a school board spokesperson while describing a list which contained Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and Sam Houston.
Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”
- Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
James Madison, the father of the Constitution, was very clear about the fact that he wrote the First Amendment to protect the minority against the majority.
UPDATE: This was written immediately following the Fed's Jackson Hole meeting in late Aug 2016. It is a walk through of our escalating alarm at what we discovered was on the agenda. So forgive the color in the first part that betrays our naivete.
Authored by David Stockman via The Daily Reckoning,
Benjamin Franklin supposedly said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
If old Ben were still around he would surely add “debt” to his famous saying. Indeed, a recent Experian study of its 220 million consumer files actually proves the case.