Published on January 20th, 2021
After Joe Biden finishes swearing his oath of office Wednesday, it appears he’ll only take half a breath before getting cracking on what his chief of staff Ron Klain calls “four overlapping and compounding crises” by issuing a 10-day run of executive orders. Many will necessarily be directed at upending actions taken by Donald J. Trump during his 1,461-day occupation of the White House. Because it
is Joe Biden, some orders will be directed specifically toward healing the nation’s divisions.
Mounted police at an antiwar protest in San Francisco, April 4, 1967.
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Every president since George Washington has issued executive orders although the term does not appear in the Constitution but is assumed a prerogative under executive power. Washington’s first such order in the autumn of 1789 was to declare a national day of thanksgiving. It wasn’t until Abraham Lincoln took office that the term “execut
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How Woodrow Wilson Persecuted Hutterites Who Refused to Support His War
Woodrow Wilson had no qualms about jailing people he disagreed with. His persecution of the Hutterites can attest to that.
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Campaigning for President of the United States in September 1912, “progressive” icon Woodrow Wilson said something that would gladden the heart of any libertarian:
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
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