From Pawn Stars To Bridgegate – After Over Two Centuries The Burke Paine Debate Still Echoes
Our own political spectrum from far-right to far-left is something of a tangled skein of Burke’s communitarian conservatism and Paine’s largely, but not entirely libertarian, generational clean slate
Fort Lee Is More Than A Speed Bump On Governor Christie’s Presidential Road
The book that really inflamed Northern anti-slavery consciousness was Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe based her work on the non-fiction American Slavery As It Is. That work was assembled from primary sources including newspapers from across the South, by Theodore Weld, his wife Angelina Grimke, and her sister Sarah Grimke. They were living in Fort Lee, NJ at the time. Here is a simulated interview with Angelina Grimke.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.