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Fred's Blog: The Tyranny of the Administrative State
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Friday, May 17, 2013. The Tyranny of the Administrative State. The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold on us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered." — Thomas Jefferson (1781). This disgust grows particularly acute when the Internal Revenue Service is corrupted. We are obliged to place a great deal of faith in the IRS. The agency carries an extraordinary burden of publ...The g...
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Fred's Blog: August 2014
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014. Two Things a Liberal Will Never Admit Responsibility. The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them." — Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge Spencer Roane, 1821. House Un-American Activities Committee. At least 50 million people, mainly children.
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Fred's Blog: Veterans Day Then and Now
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Veterans Day Then and Now. Before we can review the history of Veterans Day we first have to look back at World War I — The War to End All Wars and the armistice that ended that war and led Congress to making November 11. A legal holiday in the United States. WWI was a tribute to the incompetence of European and British leaders and diplomats. It was a war that had been brewing under the surface since 1871 when Germany defeated. France in the Franco-Prussian War. The original c...
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Fred's Blog: January 2015
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015. Perception Management of Radical Islam. 8220;We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.” — Condoleezza Rice, Former U.S. Secretary of State. The term “ Perception Management. 8221; (PM) has firmly entered the public lexicon. The Department of Defense even defines PM in one of its manuals, so the military folks obviously take it very seriously. Here is a quick test.
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Fred's Blog: Woodrow Wilson and the Administrative State
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012. Woodrow Wilson and the Administrative State. For Wilson, constitutional checks and balances and the separation of powers are indicative of the flawed thinking of America's Founders. To Wilson they were the means of limiting government. To Wilson and the progressives government alone can provide the people's needs. Wilson looked to the presidency — the singular voice of the people — as the best hope for overcoming the old order of our Founders. As Croly wrote, "the traditional...
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Fred's Blog: November 2014
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Saturday, November 22, 2014. Do We Want a King or a Constitution? 8220;The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.” — George Washington (1796). Article I, Section 8.4 of the Constitution clearly states :. As Constitutional lecturer Obama has to know this. If he does not then his resu...
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Fred's Blog: Perception Management of Radical Islam
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015. Perception Management of Radical Islam. 8220;We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.” — Condoleezza Rice, Former U.S. Secretary of State. The term “ Perception Management. 8221; (PM) has firmly entered the public lexicon. The Department of Defense even defines PM in one of its manuals, so the military folks obviously take it very seriously. Here is a quick test.
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Fred's Blog: July 2014
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Saturday, July 19, 2014. In 1802, in response to President Thomas Jefferson's request for authority to deal with the Barbary Pirates, Congress passed "An act for the Protection of Commerce and seamen of the United States against the Tripolitan cruisers. Authorizing the President to " employ such of the armed vessels of the United States as may be judged requisite for protecting effectually the commerce and seamen thereof on the Atlantic ocean, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.". There is a rank due t...
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Fred's Blog: September 2013
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013. Happy Constitution Day – One Day Late. The United States Constitution has endured for more than two centuries. Even now, this single, guiding document remains the greatest statement of liberty ever written and a powerful beacon to all who strive for liberty. Over the past 226 years since the signing of the Constitution it has been amended 27 times (including the first 10 known as the Bill of Rights). Some of these amendments such as the 13. Were needed to complete our dedic...
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Fred's Blog: December 2014
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Thursday, December 4, 2014. 8220;Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.” — George S. Patton. On November 20, 2014 I. Posted a book review. Of Mark Bowden’s book “The Finish, The Killing of Osama bin Laden.”. I have just finished reading Bill O’Reilly’s and Martin Dugard’s book; “ Killing Patton – The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General. Here is what Senator John McCain had to say in.
