Lincoln
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Ill Literacy, Episode XX: Lincoln and the American Founding (Guest: Lucas E. Morel)
by Jim Lakely November 23, 2020In Episode XX of Ill Literacy, Tim Benson talks with Lucas E. Morel about his new book Lincoln and the American Founding
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ConstitutionFeaturedGovernmentLibertyPolitics
The War against ‘Unbridled Capitalism’
by Jane Shaw September 18, 2020One strand of the Progressive Movement was the social justice movement, which supported legislation against child labor, a minimum wage for women as well as a limit on women’s hours, and workers’ compensation for industrial accidents
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Yesterday the 4th of July was celebrated nationwide with picnics, parades, and firework displays. Of great concern is that too many within America’s younger generation have no idea what is actually being celebrated on Independence Day. Somewhat redeeming is the result of a 2016 American Enterprise Institute (AEI) opinion study. Fifty-six percent of those polled said they were very proud to be American citizens, which actually put our country more than midway down in the “highest response” category. Even so, over half of American citizens love our country and are not reluctant to say so.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Washington DC: Don’t Just Do Something – Stand There
by Seton Motley March 18, 2016There is a warped Inside-the-Beltway fetish with “getting things done.” Warped – because of what many of those “things” consist. Most members of both political Parties (and the bulk of the Chattering Classes) want things – that most of We the People do not. So DC tries to distract from their terrible products – by obsessively fixating on the process.