Tag: Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • The Power to Destroy

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    JOHN ROBERTS’ MASQUERADE by Joseph DeMaio, ©2012 (Jun. 30, 2012) — “The power to tax involves the power to destroy.” — M’Culloch v. State of Maryland, 17 U.S. 316, 431 (1819) (Chief Justice John Marshall). There are a couple of ways to view and analyze what happened on June 28, 2012, when a badly fractured Supreme Court…

  • Do You Think Your Vote in November Will Restore Freedom?

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    HOW MANY ARE PREPARED TO WALK THE LONG ROAD BACK? by Ron Ewart (Sept. 23, 2010) — “Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson Way too many Americans dwell in la-la land, on either side of the political spectrum.  Naiveté…