Quicksilber (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Until now, I didn't happen to see my old editor Myron Magnet's excellent article from last winter about Alexander Hamilton. Recommended reading. Here's an excerpt about Hamilton and Adams: All this dirty linen Hamilton aired in his pamphlet, going on to argue that Adams had “great and intrinsic defects in his character, which unfit him for the office of Chief Magistrate,”...
Exposing Liberal Lies (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Americans were first in flight, first to fly across the Atlantic, and first to walk on the moon. Alexander Graham Bell, Jonas Salk, and the Wright Brothers are entirely absent. Instead, the reader is treated to the exploits of Speckled Snake, Joan Baez, and the Berrigan brothers. While Zinn sees fit to mention that immigrants often went into professions like ditch-digging and prostitution,...
Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... motivations behind this move is to curb consumer expectations that a new novel is worth only one Alexander Hamilton. It’s a historically valid concern, especially when you consider how iTunes taught us that songs are only worth $1 apiece, but in the long-term, we don’t expect this delay-on-digital trend to stay afloat. The e-book business is growing, and that delay is too artificial...
1776 BLog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... institutions upon our capacity…to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” Alexander Hamilton- “For my own part, I sincerely esteem it [the Constitution] a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.”
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
... But there is a serious argument for clemency that reaches back to the Founders. In Federalist 74, Alexander Hamilton writes: "Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate, that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed. The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity, that without an easy access to exceptions...
War On You (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
... us. Don’t cede the constitution to the austrians. Mcculloch vs Maryland and a national bank of the Hamiltonian type is constitutional…the great nationist John Marshall of Virginia … “The new deal, the parts of it that survived are also a matter of settled law… so the idea of tampering with that stuff … is a decidely radical and reactionary move.” “So remember, the problem with economic theory...
The Intangible Economy (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... and spark innovation without controlling it, which is what government has done since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It's the sort of thing the country does periodically, each time we need to recover from one of our binges of national stupidity. While I disagree with his implied return to the unhelpful rhetoric of "picking winners and losers", I agree that we need a return to an activist...
Collecting my Thoughts (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Tonight our book club will be discussing Dewey; The small town library cat who touched the World by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter (Grand Central Publishing, 2008). It was my nomination back in May when we chose this year's books, so I am the discussion leader. And, if I must say so, I'm well qualified for this one, unlike when I did 1776 or Alexander Hamilton. I am a retired librarian,...
El Campeador's Weblog (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Pajamas Media…Per the prescient Alexander Hamilton: “A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.” Impartial observers looking for reasons to oppose Obama’s candidacy were not found wanting. Anyone capable of transcending the partisan pettifoggery with which the campaign, unexceptionally, was rife, would have been able to adduce a number of...
Outside the Beltway (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... time, then Vice-President Thomas Jefferson actively paid newspaper reporters to dig up dirt on Alexander Hamilton and John Adams and provided funds for the publication of same. During the Administration of President Andrew Jackson, an attempt was made to make it illegal to distribute abolitionist literature through the mail service. During the Civil War, newspaper editors critical...
Mises Economics Blog (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... on the subject rely mostly on the mushy and deceptive language of protectionist politicians. (Alexander Hamilton does not come off in a very favorable light, nor do his main biographers).
Walled-In Pond (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... about Obama’s decisions on Afghanistan. (Aaron Burr might win the title, for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel, but Burr was a sitting vice president at the time.) Cheney has acted as if utterly unconcerned with the welfare of his country, its armed forces, or the people now trying to make difficult decisions. He has put narrow score-settling interest far, far above national...
1776 BLog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well as property.” Alexander Hamilton- “The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
