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Why Are We Surprised?

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:03:28 +0000

On Tuesday the radio talk-show host Glenn Beck discussed on his daily program the stunning results of a recent poll (the first national survey of its kind) testing the knowledge of American adults of their knowledge of the American Revolution and its principles. From the American Revolution Center, which conducted the survey: The survey questions [...]

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FFQF: Posterity! (That's us)

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:42:00 +0000

Allow me to relieve my fellow bloggers and loyal readers: no, I have not yet been deported for sedition, thankfully. I am quite alive and well. A bit under the weather, and certainly very much preoccupied with an increased number of projects, but well. I would like to heartily thank those who have kept up [...]

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FFQF: Does One Size Fit All?

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:12:00 +0000

After an absence from this blog, and from my own meme “Founding Father’s Quote Friday,” I now resume my pen typewriter. I also apologize (do I do that more than I blog, I wonder?) to my readers and to FFQF participants. My absence was the result of necessity. Today, we pose the question “Does one [...]

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FFQF: What Was the American Revolution?

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Today, John Adams will answer that question for us. His answer comes from a letter written to an early American historian by the name of Hezekiah Niles, dated February 13, 1818. Several of Niles’ invaluable texts on American history are available for reading and searching here. But what do we mean by the American Revolution? [...]

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FFQF: Ben Franklin

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:36:00 +0000

Ben Franklin died this day, on April 17, 1790. So today we will cite a great quote from him: Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. From Poor Richard’s Almanac (1734) Loss of liberty was no accident in our country. Nor was it the fault of corrupt politicians alone. We sold [...]

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FFQF: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Debt

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:13:00 +0000

Everyone knows the famous saying by Ben Franklin, that the only things that are certain in life are death and taxes. Which one is worse? Heh. (Hat tip: Patriot Humor) My FFQF today comes from an email I recently received from Wallbuilders, David Barton’s group. As usual, his stuff is choc-full of quotations from the [...]

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FFQF: John Adams on National Liberty

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:29:00 +0000

I hope to continue posting my series called “The Law of Liberty.” I’ve only posted my first installment, and that was some time ago. But, I promise to continue it, and also to continue my exciting series of posts unfolding the relationship between the Founding Fathers, and the Illuminati. Today’s quote somewhat reflects the theme [...]

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FFQF: Alexander Hamilton on the Fall of Republics

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:32:00 +0000

Today we will look at what Alexander Hamilton had to say about the self-destructive weaknesses of republics. In a day and age where both extremes of unitary government and total democracy are pitted against each other in our nation, his words need to be heard and understood. Every republic at all times has its Catalines [...]

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FFQF: My Double-Barrelled Bill of Rights

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0000

I said it once, and I’ll say it again (although you are all probably tired of hearing it): our theme for this week has sounded more or less like an elegy to the late great Bill of Rights. Our Founders were aware that, in the usual course of history, governments would look out more and [...]

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FFQF: Alexander Hamilton on Rights

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:42:00 +0000

For the past several weeks, I and those participating in this month’s Founding Fathers’ Quote Friday meme, have been dealing with the subject of the (late great) Bill of Rights. We have been approaching that subject from the angle that the reason for its demise has simply been the ignorance and complacency of the people. [...]

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