The American Revolution didn’t start in Philadelphia, or at Lexington and Concord. Instead, as John Adams put it, the Revolution started on February 24, 1761, when James Otis, Jr., rose in Boston’s Massachusetts Town House to defend American liberty. He gave a 5 HOUR speech in opposition to the “Writs of Assistance.” These were general warrants…
Many people consider Independence Day the “birthday of America.” During a speech at the Oakland County, Michigan, Campaign for Liberty, historian Dave Benner unravels this myth, asserting that the Declaration did not create a new “nation,” but in fact merely asserted the independence of 13 individual political societies from Great Britain. “This is not a…
Once word of Patrick Henry and the Virginia Resolves spread to Boston, Samuel Adams and the Loyal Nine started taking active steps to nullify the Stamp Act.
How to stop the feds? The first step comes from John Dickinson, the “Penman of the Revolution.”
We usually think of the American Revolution as the war with the British. But there was an even more fundamental revolution that began long before the first shot was fired – a revolution in political thought. I talk about it in this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head. In an 1818 letter to Hezekiah Niles,…
When people tell you that mass warrantless surveillance by the NSA - or any other agency - is constitutional, they’re either ignorant or lying.
In celebration of Presidents’ Day, here’s a quiz of sorts: If the colonies declared their independence from Britain in 1776, but George Washington did not become President until 1789, who governed the colonies in the interim? Many readers may know that the Articles of Confederation preceded our American Constitution, but the Articles weren’t even ratified… more
Looking Glass, Going Forward in America
Those of us who believe our state and our country are going very much in the wrong direction should expect it will require much from all of us. Are we all doing all that we can do? George Washington’s favorite play was Cato, the story of a Roman who struggled, along with others to preserve [...]