During the Revolutionary War, a Continental Congress bereft of hard money was reduced to buying supplies for Washington’s army by issuing fiat paper money, notes that became known as “Continentals.” Because these pieces of paper could not be redeemed for gold or silver, their value eroded quickly. By war’s end hardly anyone would accept them, […]
Back on Feb. 17 I offered another column on an American of great character and achievement — in this case, George Washington — who wound up better educated with only a few years formal schooling than our high school “scholars” of today. (In fact, John Taylor Gatto goes beyond that — asserting that locking kids […]
“A well-regulated population being necessary to the security of a police state, the right of the Government to seize and destroy arms shall not be infringed.” Go where the land meets the water, anywhere in New England, and you will begin to understand how deeply the region of my birth lies in bondage to the […]