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No Permanent Alliances: Foreign Policy of Washington and Jefferson
George Washington: “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.” Thomas Jefferson: “Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should ...
Alaska Senate Committee Passes Bill to Make Gold and Silver Legal Tender in the State
The proposed law would make gold and silver specie legal tender in the state, recognizing it as a medium of exchange for the payment of debts. In effect, gold and ...
New Hampshire Committee Advances Bill to Prohibit Credit Card Codes to Track Firearms Purchases
Titled the Firearm Purchaser’s Privacy Act, the proposed law would prohibit a payment card network from requiring a New Hampshire merchant to use a “firearms code” defined as “merchant category code ...
Iowa Governor Signs Bill That Prohibits Credit Card Codes to Track Firearms Purchases
The new law prohibits a financial institution operating in Iowa from requiring or assigning a firearms code that distinguishes a firearms dealer from any other retailer. “Firearms code” is defined ...
The Failed Strategy of “Vote the Bums Out” is Making Things Even Worse
From Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson to Lysander Spooner - the notion that the people should submit until they can replace enough politicians to stop the government from doing what ...
Louisiana Senate Passes Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act
Titled the “Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act,” the bill would prohibit any financial institution operation in the state from requiring or permitting “the assignment of a firearms code in a ...
Thomas Jefferson’s Prediction of Economic Meltdown and Its Relevance Today
Jefferson's chilling warnings about unchecked fiat, paper money printing proved prophetic as the U.S. plunged into its first boom-bust economic crisis in the early 19th century ...
Kentucky Repeals Sales Taxes on Gold and Silver Bullion
The new law will relieve some of the tax burdens on investors, and it will also eliminate one barrier to using gold and silver in everyday transactions, a foundational step ...
Benjamin Franklin’s Rules for Bringing Down Empires
With some of his sharpest satire and wit, Franklin told the British the top-20 ways their policies would bring their empire over the American colonies to an end. Much of ...
Alaska House Committee Holds Hearing on Defend the Guard Act
an Alaska House committee held a hearing on a bill that would empower the governor to stop unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s National Guard troops ...
To the Governor: Iowa Passes Bill That Would Prohibit Credit Card Codes to Track Firearms Purchases
The bill would prohibit a financial institution operating in Iowa from requiring or assigning a firearms code that distinguishes a firearms dealer from any other retailer ...
Gold and Silver as Legal Tender Approved by Second Missouri House Committee
The legislation would take several steps to treat gold and silver as money in Missouri and encourage its use as such, including designating it as legal tender and eliminating the ...
Rhode Island Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Bill to Legalize Raw Milk Sales; Foundation to Nullify Federal Prohibition Scheme
Under the proposed law, raw milk could be sold in the state subject to the same regulations and permitting requirements as pasteurized milk ...
