Lower Oil Prices = Free Market Victory
Seldom has so much good news been portrayed so negatively. Oil prices continue to fall in the U.S. and around the world, but nearly everyone in the media is grumpy about it. The headlines today are among the silliest I’ve seen: Energy-company stocks are...The Myth of Black Confederates
Patrick R. Cleburne, a prominent general in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, could see what was happening in the South in late 1863. Southern troops were outnumbered, soldiers were demoralized, and the institution of slavery was collapsing. So on January 2, 1864,...News From Around the South 11/24 – 12/1
TENNESSEE: Archaeologist Finds ‘Pristine’ Civil War Site A Knoxville archaeologist said he’s discovered the remains of a small Civil War earthen fort off the Third Creek Greenway. Now Charles Faulkner is working to preserve the site he spotted eight years...Liberty, Thanksgiving & The South
What many regard as the nation’s first Thanksgiving took place in December 1621 as the religious separatist Pilgrims held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest. Harvest festivals were common and German communities had their Octoberfest. The first...
Thanks, Property Rights!
This Thanksgiving, I give thanks for something our forebears gave us: property rights. People associate property rights with greed and selfishness, but they are keys to our prosperity. Things go wrong when resources are held in common. Before the Pilgrims were able to...Obiter Dicta
One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress’s constitutional authority over war. Read More
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