“In Ya Face, Neocon/Straussian/Jaffaite/Declarationist/Lincoln Idolaters!

September 18, 2014

Not that there’s any difference between them all, says Daniel Phillips, writing for the Abbeville Institute.  Now that the whole world –even American leftists — recognizes the Scottish right of secession, where are all your arguments about “mystical” unions, defenses of mass murder to prevent secession, theories of “perpetual union”; corny quotes of Daniel Webster and other centralizing megalomaniacs, bizarre reinterpretations of founding documents in defense of monopoly government, out-of-context quotes by Abe Lincoln, etc., etc.”  Why has the Lincoln cult been so silent on the issue of Scottish secession?

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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 LincolnHow Capitalism Saved AmericaLincoln UnmaskedHamilton's CurseOrganized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About GovernmentThe Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics