04/23/2021 at 4:31 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
By Victor David Hanson, National Review, April 22, 2021
We are learning how much will soon remain of what our ancestors bequeathed.
As Americans know from their own illustrious history, any nation’s well-being hinges on only a few factors. Its prosperity, freedom, and overall stability depend on its constitutional and political stability. A secure currency and financial order are also essential, as is a strong military.
We are now witnessing a concentrated effort to alter the constitutional order and centuries of custom and tradition. The Left believes that’s the only way it can retain its transient power, given the unpopularity of most of its current agenda.
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The Raven .the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
- Milton Friedman on the Phil Donahue show .What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven -F.A. Hayek -
The Road to Serfdom
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people,
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The Left s War on U.S. History : Biden Bows to the Woke Left , Disbands the 1776 Commission
01-26-2021
Immediately after taking power, President Joe Biden revoked a recent Trump administration report that aimed to promote patriotic education about American history.
In an executive order signed last Wednesday on his first day in office, Biden disbanded Donald Trump s presidential 1776 Commission and withdrew a report it had released two days earlier.
Trump established the group in September to rally support from conservative voters and as a response to The New York Times 1619 Project, which has been slammed by several historians for its factual errors.