Benjamin Franklin

I am sure everyone has come across the latest flash mob viral video traversing the web.  It is pretty frightening, and seems to be a growing trend of organized looting and random acts of violence.  In this case, a  group of about 20 teenage hooligans walked into a Wicker Park store and helped themselves to more than [...]

From the earliest days, our Founding Fathers have been conscious of attempts to control America through money manipulation, and they carried on a running battle with the international bankers.  Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams:  “…I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies…”  A couple of central banks were [...]

Benjamin Franklin once said, “those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”  Glenn Beck recently talked with some former National Security Agency (NSA) employees and discussed how the NSA is gathering information on citizens, illegally, across the country. Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the [...]

May Day is celebrated by left-wing and labor movements as a commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago.  The Haymarket incident began as a labor demonstration and general strike on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square (Randolph Street and Desplaines Street) in Chicago and culminated in a crowd of an estimated 3,000 people throwing a [...]