by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 21, 2015 | Foreign Policy
Private supranational organizations are agents of peace and prosperity. The Wellcome Trust, Oxfam, Coca-Cola, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, McDonalds, Google, Microsoft—all have furthered human progress in their own way. By contrast, supranational...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 21, 2015 | Foreign Policy
The French foreign minister said the Irish would be ungrateful if they voted against the Treaty of Nice. When the Irish responded by voting against it, the French president commented simply, “They will have to vote again.” Who do these French planners, these socialist...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 21, 2015 | Foreign Policy
Make not so foolish a bargain, as for a little loose money to give up desperately all you have; your liberties, your estates, your families . . . for every bucket of water thrown into your wells, they will pump out tuns. —John Trenchard. Cato’s Letter No. 69, Address...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 21, 2015 | Foreign Policy
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 21, 2015 | Foreign Policy
Constitutional power inherently belongs to the people A … government … cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution. —Thomas...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 21, 2015 | Foreign Policy
The British embraced socialism after World War II, and year after year, election after election, they moved further towards the cesspit of totalitarianism. They nationalized their industries, indentured their doctors, persecuted business, and taxed and spent until...
