There has been a lot of talk lately about the legality of the Federal Reserve, which was chartered by The Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The legislation was written in response to a series of financial crises and panics that plagued the United States during the eighty years since the Second Bank of the United [...]
All posts for the month April, 2011
The Illegal Fed
Posted by admin on April 30, 2011
http://www.born2synthesize.com/2011/04/the-illegal-fed/
Original Intent and the War with France
The last thirty years have seen a tremendous embrace of originalism, or the pursuit of divining the original intent of the founders. It’s never seemed to be more than an academic exercise to me, and an irrelevant one at that. Does anyone really want to defend the notion that politicians smart enough to craft one [...]
Posted by admin on April 25, 2011
http://www.born2synthesize.com/2011/04/original-intent-and-the-war-with-france/
Napolitano Flunks History
Media Matters has posted a clip of Andrew Napolitano (a former judge) pontificating as a guest host on last night’s Glenn Beck Show (April 13th.) It’s classic propaganda, and is deliberately designed to poison civic discourse. I think it’s safe to assume that the judge passed at least some basic U.S. history classes in his [...]
Posted by admin on April 15, 2011
http://www.born2synthesize.com/2011/04/napolitano-flunks-history/
Materialism and American Independence
Another week, another paper. This is an interesting look at the forces that led to colonial revolt against Great Britain in North America (that would be us.) For a serious discussion it’s short, but I don’t have a problem with throwing it out in front of you. Fifteen thousand words would have been better than [...]
Posted by admin on April 13, 2011
http://www.born2synthesize.com/2011/04/materialism-and-american-independence/