California Secessionists . . .
February 22, 2014
. . . are “gaining ground.” A proposition to split the “ungovernable” state into six separate new states may make it onto the ballot for the next election. Rumor has it that if this succeeds the Lincoln-worshipping neocons at the Claremont (CA) Institute will ask President Obama to nuke all the secessionists into submission before they adopt Nazism, KKK-ism, or something worse. We are, after all, “one nation, indivisible,” in the words of Francis Bellamy, the late nineteenth-century socialist and defrocked Baptist minister who authored the Pledge of Allegiance to the Omnipotent Lincolnian State.
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.
Sophie and Hans Scholl, and Christopher Probst, RIP