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Back on line

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The site was down for several days for maintenance caused by software updates that screwed up a lot of things.  Have completed correcting all the programing errors the updates caused (I hope) and the site is now live again.Read more

“Those who cannot remember the past”

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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana  Are we “condemned to repeat” 1912 in 2016? The following is excerpted from: History Now: American History Online THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA The Spectacles of 1912 by Patricia O’Toole The presidential election year of 1912 began with one unprecedented spectacle, ended with another. Theodore … Read more

Letter from Texas

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By Jim Schutze http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/letter-from-texas-listen-america-trump-is-just-embarrassing-cruz-is-scary-8095715“… you don’t live in Texas, so you haven’t had a lot of opportunity to hear Cruz’s father speak or pay close attention to his behavior. Please. Google him. YouTube him. Take a look at Rafael Cruz. One of the first YouTube items that will pop up is a strange video of … Read more

Jefferson and the “Living” Constitution

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The biggest difference between conservatives and liberals over filling the current vacancy on the Supreme Court is perhaps the question of interpretation of the Constitution.  Conservatives insist that the Constitution is NOT a living document and the person to be appointed must agree that it’s meaning MUST be read in strict conformity to the ideas … Read more

Adam Smith on High Profits

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“… besides all the bad effects tothe country in general, which have alreadybeen mentioned as necessarily resulting from ahigher rate of profit, there is one more fatal,perhaps, than all these put together, butwhich, if we may judge from experience, isinseparably connected with it. The high rate ofprofit seems everywhere to destroy thatparsimony which, in other … Read more

Adam Smith on Bank Regulation

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“regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society are, and ought to be restrained by the laws of all governments; of the most free, as well as orthe … Read more

Adam Smith on wages and profits

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those who live by wages:The interest of … those who live by wages, is … strictly connected withthe interest of the society … The wages of the labourer … are never so high as when the demand for labour is continually rising, or when the quantity employed is every year increasingconsiderably. When this real wealth … Read more

Quotes from Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations.

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Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the Bible of Capitalism. “The word VALUE, it is to be observed, has twodifferent meanings, and sometimes expressesthe utility of some particular object, andsometimes the power of purchasing othergoods which the possession of that objectconveys. The one may be called … Read more

The Constitution of the Five Nations

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The Constitution of the Five Nations – or – The Iroquois Book of the Great Law … survives after some 500 or 600 years, and was originated by people that our ancestors … considered  “savages”. Some sources place the origin of the Five Nation Confederacy as early as 1390, … others insist it was prepared … Read more