Month: August 2021

Another article from the Ottawa Citizen courtesy of George Shafer in Almonte, Ontario. By Andrew Cohen It is not new, unusual or original to consider the decline of the United States. Many have, at different times, for different reasons, since the end of the Second World War. The country emerged as the world’s lone nuclear…

For some time now, my good libertarian friend has continued to send me information extolling libertarian values and criticism of the two major political parties, the Democrats and Republicans. He has always been particularly exercised about the Libertarian Party’s continual struggle with ballot access, the nemesis of all third parties in our two-party system. He…

The Republican Party has been around since its founding in 1854 in the little hamlet of Ripon, Wisconsin. It was cobbled together from disgruntled Democrats, the Free Soil Party, former Whigs and anti-slavery advocates in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act which permitted the expansion of slavery into the territories. After running John C. Fremont as…