Ronald Reagan was really something special.  There certainly hasn't been a President like him since! Here are some of my favorite Reagan quotes. Enjoy. 'Here's my strategy on the Cold War:   We win, they lose.' - Ronald Reagan 'The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' -Ronald…

Thanks go out to reader Yitz Weiss for sending me the link to this article.  I hope you enjoy it and Happy 4th of July to all you Americans out there!!

The Ludwig Von Mises blog, always an interesting read, recently posted an article that caught my attention.  It's bad enough the overblown religion of global warming has the traction it does, but, hey, everyone is free to believe what they want to believe.  But when it starts to become "treason" to oppose such fancies, that's…

Okay, okay, how many times can I quote one author? The following quote is so sobering it should make the staunchest partisans on either side stop and take a cold, hard look. It comes from G. Edward Griffin and his book, The Creature from Jekyll Island: "The New World Order cannot become a functional reality…

Have you ever heard that figures don't lie but liars can figure?  Most of what passes for "economic commentary" these days is closer to the latter than the former. As long as the "experts" make it all sound complicated the masses can be duped. But it is actually very simple.  Our government is fleecing us…

The following is from American Affairs magazine, January 1946 issue: ". . . given control of a central banking system and an inconvertible currency [a currency not backed by gold], a sovereign national government is finally free of money worries and needs no longer levy taxes for the purpose of providing itself with revenue. All…

"The best way to destroy the Capitalist System is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens." — Lenin "[Inflation] is the most unfair of all taxes because it falls most heavily on those who are least able…

Debasing currency has long been the craft of governments everywhere. By this method governments expand the money supply for their own immediate use, and thereby drive down the value of the currency in the hands of their constituents. This results in an invisible tax called inflation. This requires no vote or debate and happens quite…

Socrates said, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I would modify his famous quote in this way: "the unexamined opinion is not worth repeating." In other words, we should be careful what positions we espouse until we are sure about what we are saying. Many people are quick to speak and slow to think…

For those unfamiliar with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, perhaps this article from adjunct fellow Art Carden will serve as an ample introduction. His essay is extremely clear, with the overall concept that not only do ideas have consequences, but they have a time-delay on their acceptance and implementation.  If Carden is correct, we have…