Awaiting Obama’s Call
At this point in the course of human events, why would any astute—for that matter, any rational—politician in the Democratic or Republican Parties want...
The Federal Reserve System: A Fatal Parasite On The American Body Politic
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Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., has condensed into this Monograph the substance of addresses he has given to small groups that represent a cross-section of...
McCain, Hillary and Obama, Birds of a Feather
Its recent losses of special Congressional elections in formerly safe districts indicate that the Republican Party may be in the process of self-destruction. Deservedly...
19 April 1775 vs. The D.C. Gun Case
From what I have heard, the oral argument in the Supreme Court on the District of Columbia gun case suggested that a majority of...
Is the D.C. Gun Case Off Target?
If the present stir among lawyers in the greater Washington, D.C., area is any indication, the forthcoming decision in the Heller case, challenging the...
Draft Ron Paul
When I read Ron Paul’s letter, announcing that he is downgrading his campaign for the Presidency, I recalled the lugubrious soliloquy MacBeth intones upon...
Shadows of Nuremberg
While reading a report in the Washington Post (Sunday, 6 January 2008, p. A10) on Republican Presidential candidates who were campaigning in New Hampshire,...
Ron Paul and Competing Currencies
As America’s inherently self-destructive monetary and banking systems lurch from crisis to crisis—and one foreign country after another announces its intention to reduce its...
Ron Paul and the Militia
The last thing I claim to be is a political-campaign tactician. Yet it seems obvious to me that revitalization of “the Militia of the...
Leashing the Mad Dogs
Recently, you have probably read a spate of justifiably angry Internet commentaries and watched some truly shocking and sickening videos reporting on and recording...
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