My Two Cents

Thomas DiLorenzo, in his excellent work The Real Lincoln, gives a very applicable example on the situation that our nation found itself in 1860 by likening it to a marriage.

• Secession

• Slavery

Images certainly have or can have an effect on the imagination, whether photographs, drawings, paintings or visuals created with computers. Our society literally bombards us with imagery. We see it on the internet, on television, on city buses, cereal boxes, billboards, album covers, postage stamps and the list goes on and on and all of this must have some sort of effect on the psyche

• Secession

During the War between the Confederate States of America and the United States of America and in the days following the war, the Lincoln administration and the subsequent administration coerced a significant number of Americans into signing an Oath of Allegiance

• Reconstruction

• Constitutional History

The Constitution of the United States is a beautifully written and simply worded document that enumerates the function of our central government.

• Constitutional History

Mankind has been in pursuit of liberty for centuries, it is one of those nebulous concepts impossible to shake. Children raised without guidance seek liberty from their parents, families seek liberty from debt, spouses seek liberty from abuse, citizens seek liberty from tyranny.

• Constitutional History

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History Matters! Particularly what isn't taught.

• Constitutional History

The intentional, tragic, and unnecessary war in which the effusion of blood was halted in 1865, has reverberated through 150 years and enabled alert observers to see the intended consequences of those echoes, decade after decade. When General Lee surrendered the remnant of the Army of Northern Virginia (approx.26,000 men) to General Grant (approx. 100,000 men) his army was exhausted from winning battles only to lose the war.

• Reconstruction

About 50 years ago we began hearing how the so-called “American Civil War” was all about freeing the slaves. How the North’s pure motives were vindicated by ultimate success and therefore how evil and wrong the South must have been. More recently that mantra has become so pervasive as to be laughable, provided you have studied honest history.

• Slavery

It has been nearly 15 decades since the carnival of blood, euphemistically called the American “Civil War” came to a close. Incredibly expensive, yet it enabled Northern politicians, industrialists, merchants, bankers, and their International Banking handlers to amass immense wealth...

• Constitutional History

• Secession