tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-366231922024-03-06T22:19:51.680-08:00Michael Patrick LeahyMichael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.comBlogger427125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-84315946941739840672013-12-06T16:36:00.000-08:002013-12-06T16:37:17.936-08:00Tea Party Catholic by Dr. Samuel Gregg Is One of the Best Books of 2013If you're a Tea Party activist, run, don't walk to purchase this outstanding new book by Dr. Samuel Gregg:
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The Catholic Case for Limited Government, A Free Economy, and Human Flourishing<i></i></b></a>
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Dr. Gregg, a native of Australia who received a D.Phil in moral philosophy at the University of Oxford currently serves as the Director of Research at the Acton Institute.
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In this book, Dr. Gregg superbly integrates the Anglo-American tradition of individual liberty with the theological teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. He begins with the fascinating personal story of Charles Carroll of Maryland, the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, and takes us to the modern struggle within the Church between the "social justice" and "free market" viewpoints.
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Here are the highlights, which most Tea Party activists will find compelling.
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"Catholics," Gregg writes, "can bring ...a deeper and coherent understanding of why freedom really matters, and especiallly in the economy. More specifically, they can demonstrate that:
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1. Entrepreneurship, economic liberty, and the market economy are not simply more efficient than the alternatives; they also create tremendous opportunities for human flourishing.
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2. A highly economically-activist state is not just economically ineffective but also tends to damage the moral culture and undermines human flourishing.
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3. There are better ways for Americans to realize their concrete obligations to those in need than large welfare states (not least through churches and other intermediate associations), and in a manner which contributes to the integral development of those being assisted.
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4. A robust conception of religious liberty is essential for human flourishing and limiting government power--including in economic life.
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5. The market economy and the ideal of limited government are more reliant on a strong civil society, intact families, and a robust moral culture than many people realize."
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In his fifth and final point here, I see echoes of Dr. Gregg's Roman Catholic predecessor, the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, whose classic 1830's work, Democracy in America, is as relevant today as it was almost two centuries ago.
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This is exactly the kind of blending of two traditions that you would expect from a devout Roman Catholic who also happens to be a Commonwealth Scholar.Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-38715179093921579642013-02-28T05:34:00.004-08:002013-02-28T05:36:06.440-08:00The Establishment's Creed<b>The Establishment’s Creed</b><br><br>
February 27, 2013
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<a href="http://hennessysview.com/2013/02/27/the-establishments-creed/"><i>by Bill Hennessy</i></a><br><br>
I believe in cash, the money almighty, creator of happiness and wealth; and in Big Corporations, its only friend, which were conceived by the holy government, born of the power to tax, suffered under regulations, were criticized, bankrupted, and neglected. On the second vote, the bail-out passed, and they ascended into The Fed. They are seated at the right hand of Government from whence they shall come to lobby for tax breaks with more debt.<br><br>
I believe in the holy income tax, the holy eminent domain, the forgiveness of squishes, the resurrection of the Bushes, and government everlasting.
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Amen.Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-30516686287308658442012-08-27T11:20:00.001-07:002012-08-27T11:20:48.990-07:00Why CNN is FailingCNN published an article by Shannon Travis yesterday,"Has the Tea Party 'Sold Out' to the Mainstream GOP?," that illustrates why that once dominant media company is now failing.
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I received a phone call from Mr. Travis at 11 pm Saturday night as I was driving back the 310 miles from the Bristol Motor Speedway to my home in Nashville. Over the weekend, I had been part of a group of "Volunteers for Virginia" who had driven the round trip between Nashville and the Bristol Motor Speedway where we spent two days at the NASCAR race registering Virginia residents to vote. As might be expected, we learned during our stay there that the large crowd of 165,000 was almost entirely conservative, pro-tea party, and pro-Romney. With the exception of one union member from Toledo, Ohio every single person we spoke with or registered to vote was intensely committed to defeating Obama in November.
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Mr. Travis, who had interviewed me previously about my role as the co-founder of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, the informal group of local tea party leaders from around the country who launched the Tea Party movement in a conference call on February 20, 2009, wanted to get a "grassroots" perspective for his story. But it became apparent through his questions that he had already written the narrative of his story and was simply looking for a few "grassroots quotes" he could throw in to support that misleading narrative.
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Mr. Travis was trying to support his theme that the grassroot activists in the Tea Party were somehow upset by our level of involvement at the Republican National Convention.<br><br>
I told him he was asking the wrong question, that grassroots activists are focused on get-out-the-vote projects like Volunteers for Virginia. " We're not upset about the level of engagement or visibility the grassroots of the Tea Party movement is receiving at the Republican National Convention," I told him. "We're focused on getting-out-the-vote, which is far more important in my mind than the convention. If you're writing a story about what the various 'national groups' are doing at the Republican National Convention, you're not writing about the far more significant story of the great grassroots get-out-the-vote effort."<br><br>
"Volunteers for Virginia" is a collaborative project announced last week by grassroots leaders from the red states of Texas and Tennessee designed to help WeRVirginia, the independent get-out-the-vote effort, to defeat Barack Obama in that state this November.<br><br>
"The real issue you should be focusing on, Mr. Travis, is the phenomenal level of commitment at the grassroots level going on right now to get-the-vote-out to defeat Barack Obama in November," I said. "In addition to our own "Volunteers for Virginia" project, you should be writing about the "Paint Florida Red" project that the Birmingham Alabama RainyDayPatriots.org Tea Party and Zan Green have launched, as well as the "NobamaNevada" project that the Bay Area Patriots in San Francisco and Sally Zelikovsky have launched. That's the real story," I told him.<br><br>
Not surprisingly, none of my comments made it in to Mr. Travis's story, because they didn't fit his incorrect preconceived narrative.<br><br>
You can read the rest of this article <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/08/27/This-Article-Illustrates-Why-CNN-is-Failing">here at Breitbart News</a>.
Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-78332998675388562382012-08-20T10:34:00.000-07:002012-08-20T10:34:26.341-07:00Grassroots Leaders in Texas and Tennessee Launch “Volunteers for Virginia”
August 20, 2012 - Local grassroots leaders from the red states of Texas and Tennessee today announced the launch of “Volunteers for Virginia,” an independent get-out-the-vote project that will support Virginians in defeating Obama in November.
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The project’s first event will take place this weekend at the NASCAR race held at the Bristol Motor Speedway where volunteers from Virginia, Texas, and Tennessee will be registering Virginia residents to vote. Many of the expected crowd of 165,000 who will be attending the Food City 250 Nationwide series NASCAR race on Friday, August 24th and the Irwin Tools 500 Sprint series NASCAR race on Saturday, August 25th are Virginia residents.
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Volunteers for Virginia will be working side by side with We rVirginia, an organization which is committed to coordinating the efforts of local grassroots leaders that are focused on getting out the vote on November 6th. We rVirginia will provide all the resources necessary to Volunteers for Virginia, including all lodging and food.
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Lorie Medina, founder of the Frisco, Texas Tea Party and currently Chief Strategist for Texas Faith & Freedom Coalition said, “After Texas grassroots conservatives helped Ted Cruz become the Republican nominee for US Senate in an incredibly hard-fought Primary, we’re ready to help other states. Activists around the state are ready to give their time and energy to support Virginia. And, we have several newly-elected Texas State Representatives that have won their Primary Election. Now they don’t have a Democratic challenger to contend with and want to lead activists from their District to Virginia to walk door-to-door.”
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You can read the rest of this press release at the <a href="http://www.volunteersforvirginia.com">Volunteers for Virginia</a> website.Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-42020792751847550122012-08-13T08:17:00.004-07:002012-08-13T08:17:50.686-07:00Democrat Erksine Bowles Called Ryan Budget 'Sensible, Straightforward, Serious'Erskine Bowles, the Democratic co-chairman of President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, called the Paul Ryan budget "sensible, straightforward, serious" at a speech given at the University of North Carolina last September. The video of the speech, first reported at HotAir via Morgen Richmond, provides a compelling case that a growing number of independents and Democrats are acknowledging President Obama has failed to offer a serious solution to our expanding fiscal crisis.
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You can read the rest of the story here at <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/13/Democrat-Erskine-Bowles-called-Ryan-Budget-Sensible-Straightforward-Serious">Breitbart.com</a>.
Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-24379729898720159972012-08-09T07:33:00.002-07:002012-08-09T07:33:13.165-07:00Portman as VP Won't Get in Way of Coming Romney LandslideIt's fun to play the "Who will Romney pick as VP?" parlor game, but the identity of who Romney selects won't have an impact on the election in November. As I've been saying since April, Romney is going to win in an electoral college landslide. The decisive factor in that victory will be President Obama's poor performance these past three and a half years, not who Romney selects as VP. The sample skewed polls the mainstream media have been pushing lately are meaningless exercises in liberal wishful thinking. The intensity of opposition to the odious statism practiced by Obama and his cronies is so great, tea party activists will literally crawl over broken glass to get to the polls on election day. The get-out-the-vote effort they will launch will be an historic turning point in American political history.<br><br>
Rob Portman is one name on everyone's short list for VP, but outside of Ohio, very few people know much about him. Who is Rob Portman and why is he on Romney's short list?
A native of Ohio, Portman attended Dartmouth and the University of Michigan Law School, served a dozen years in Congress, had a cup of coffee as George W. Bush's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and was handily elected to the United States Senate from Ohio in 2010.<br><br>
His political philosophy and personal style is standard brand Republican establishment. There's little to see in his background that suggests he's particularly sympathetic to the tea party's core values of constitutionally limited government, free markets, and fiscal responsibility. The tea party friendly Club for Growth, for instance, rates Portman as only the 29th most conservative Senator--tied with the recently defeated Richard Lugar of Indiana, defender of the Republican establishment.<br><br>
But Portman's ideological blandness will have little to do with his performance as a potential VP candidate. He's smart, loyal, and won't make many unforced errors. And in this election, the VP candidate's ability to handle the job of President if that need arises will be the key point upon which the Romney team will focus. Perhaps most important to those calculating the odds that he will be picked as VP is the observation that Romney seems very comfortable with his cautious, buttoned down, intelligent reliability.<br><br>
Portman does get some style points for his skill and interest in canoeing and kayaking. In fact, he wrote an article recently about a kayaking adventure he had in China. As such, Portman has enough experience navigating through rough waters to predict that, if Romney selects him for the VP slot, he won't do anything during the campaign that will capsize the good ship Romney.<br><br>
You can read the rest of this article <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/09/Portman-as-VP-Won-t-Get-in-Way-of-Coming-Romney-Landslide">here at Breitbart News</a>.Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-30960211919656690872012-08-06T06:25:00.002-07:002012-08-06T06:27:21.248-07:00Harvard Knew Elizabeth Warren Was a Poor Scholar When They Hired HerWhen Harvard Law School offered Elizabeth Warren a tenured faculty position in February 1993, administrators at the school knew that her scholarship had been criticized harshly. Between 1989 and 1991, three leading academic experts on bankruptcy wrote devastating critiques of the 1989 book she co-authored with Teresa Sullivan and Jay Westbrook, As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America. The reviews, published in highly respected academic journals, belied claims made at the time of her hiring by Harvard Law School Dean Robert C. Clark that her work reflected "excellent scholarship" and by Appointments Committee member Professor Charles Fried that she was "at the very top of her profession as a scholar."
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Charges from one expert, Professor Philip Shuchman of Rutgers Law School, that Warren and her co-authors engaged in "scientific misconduct" were made in a 1990 edition of the Rutgers Law Review. Those charges remain controversial to this day.
Breitbart News has learned that at least one member of the faculty at Harvard Law School brought the Shuchman allegations to the attention of the Appointments Committee in late 1992 as it began to consider Ms. Warren's qualifications to join the faculty on a permanent basis. Neither former Dean Robert C. Clark nor Professor Charles Fried, both of whom served on the Appointments Committee at the time, have confirmed this report.
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Another member of the Harvard Law School faculty during that period, Professor Alan Dershowitz, told Breitbart News that he was unfamiliar with the Shuchman allegations. "I was not on [the Appointments] [C]ommittee," he said, "and do not recall any such charge." Professor Dershowitz noted that Ms. Warren's qualifications as an instructor were strong. "She was regarded as the best classroom teacher at the law school," he added. His knowledge of Ms. Warren's scholarly qualifications, however, was limited to what the Appointments Committee communicated to him during the meeting held on February 5, 1993 to consider her appointment to a tenured faculty position.
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Based on the evidence currently available to Breitbart News, it appears that neither the Appointments Committee nor Dean Clark investigated the merits of Shuchman's allegations of "scientific misconduct," nor did they inform the full faculty that such charges had been made. In addition, they appear not to have informed the full faculty of the two other substantive critiques of Ms. Warren's work that did not involve allegations of "scientific misconduct." Indeed, based on their subsequent public statements that incorrectly characterized the quality of Ms. Warren's record of scholarship, it is possible to speculate that both Professor Fried and Dean Clark likely failed to point out Ms. Warren's academic shortcomings.
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You can read the rest of this article <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/04/Did-Harvard-Know-Of-and-Fully-Investigate-Elizabeth-Warren-Scientific-Misconduct-Charges-on-Hiring">here at Breitbart.com</a>.Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-71107116658415807412012-07-26T08:50:00.001-07:002012-07-26T08:53:20.047-07:00My speech "We Will Defeat Barack Obama and Restore the Covenant of Liberty"<iframe width="420" height="236" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4clGcWL4-wc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-5655179315133813312012-07-20T07:04:00.001-07:002012-07-20T07:13:17.208-07:00Tea party leader urges Birmingham group to defeat Barack Obama<span style="background-color: white;">Published: Thursday, July 19, 2012, 10:10 PM </span><br />
By Robin DeMonia -- <a href="http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/07/tea-party_leader_urges_birming.html">The Birmingham News</a><br />
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A man who helped launch the national tea-party <span style="background-color: white;">movement urged a local chapter to redouble its efforts to defeat Barack </span><span style="background-color: white;">Obama, accusing the president of corrupting the Constitution with the </span><span style="background-color: white;">help of a "faithless chief justice."</span><br />
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Speaking to the Rainy Day Patriots in Hoover, Michael Patrick Leahy <span style="background-color: white;">warned that a second term for Obama will lock in a "nightmare government" </span><span style="background-color: white;">that tramples individual liberties and pushes the country to financial </span><span style="background-color: white;">ruin.</span><br />
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Leahy told 120 people who gathered at Hoover Tactical Firearms that the <span style="background-color: white;">United States is at risk of a crisis like that being experienced now in </span><span style="background-color: white;">Greece and other European countries. He said federal spending is already </span><span style="background-color: white;">at historical highs in relation to gross domestic product and predicted </span><span style="background-color: white;">it would rise even higher in a second Obama term.</span><br />
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"This is financially reckless extremism," Leahy said. "The founders ... <span style="background-color: white;">would despise and detest this."</span><br />
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Leahy also had strong words for Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the <span style="background-color: white;">opinion upholding Obama's signature health care law. Leahy, who has </span><span style="background-color: white;">called Roberts a "judicial Benedict Arnold," tonight called the chief </span><span style="background-color: white;">justice a "con artist ... (who) redefined the court as an overarching, </span><span style="background-color: white;">superlegislative body." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">"Justice Roberts knew he was conjuring up a decision that would make the </span><span style="background-color: white;">American people retch," Leahy said. "More importantly, he just told us </span><span style="background-color: white;">which team he's playing on. He's with the anticonstitutionalists. His </span><span style="background-color: white;">legacy as their champion is secure."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">But Leahy predicted the victory would be short-lived, and that Obama </span><span style="background-color: white;">would be defeated in November, thanks to tea-party members who insist on </span><span style="background-color: white;">preserving constitutional limits on government and protections for </span><span style="background-color: white;">citizens.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">"We are faithful to that covenant," Leahy said. "Barack Obama and the </span><span style="background-color: white;">allies he has are in the middle of corrupting that covenant. It will not </span><span style="background-color: white;">happen on our watch. ... We conservatives will defeat Barack Obama."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">In response to an audience member, Leahy agreed Republican leaders don't </span><span style="background-color: white;">have a solid record of supporting limited government. Still, he defended </span><span style="background-color: white;">Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as someone who will be more </span><span style="background-color: white;">responsive to tea-party concerns.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">"I would say he's better than the alternatives by a long shot. He's our </span><span style="background-color: white;">only alternative," said Leahy, who was elected in Tennessee as a Romney </span><span style="background-color: white;">delegate in 2008. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Leahy helped start the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition in 2009. He also </span><span style="background-color: white;">has written a book, "Covenant of Liberty: The Ideological Origins of the </span><span style="background-color: white;">Tea Party Movement," which he autographed after tonight's gathering.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Rainy Day Patriots formed in Birmingham and Shelby County in 2009, in </span><span style="background-color: white;">response to concerns about the encroachment of big government going back </span><span style="background-color: white;">as far as the prescription drug plan during George W. Bush </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">administration. "Then Obama's socialist government takeover finally broke </span><span style="background-color: white;">the camel's back," said Zan Green, the group's president and founder.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Green said her chapter now counts 4,000 "hard members" and has had more </span><span style="background-color: white;">than 10,000 attend its events and rallies. She expects members to get </span><span style="background-color: white;">more active as the election approaches and tonight pushed an effort to </span><span style="background-color: white;">get Birmingham area tea-partiers to sway their Florida friends to </span><span style="background-color: white;">Romney's side.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Tonight's Rainy Day Patriots meeting was a first for Ben Marcus and his </span><span style="background-color: white;">son, Barry Marcus. </span><span style="background-color: white;">"It's time to get involved," said Barry Marcus, who lives in Shelby </span><span style="background-color: white;">County. "We have strayed so far from the Constitution, it's not funny. </span><span style="background-color: white;">It's time to stand up and say we're going in the wrong direction." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">He said his concerns are not limited to either political party. "It's </span><span style="background-color: white;">just the entire political climate. It's just gotten so toxic and </span><span style="background-color: white;">corroded, I don't trust the Democrats or Republicans to do what they </span><span style="background-color: white;">say."</span>Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-7688899001375672522012-07-01T16:18:00.001-07:002012-07-01T16:18:11.367-07:00Justice Roberts Turns Obamacare into Origination Clause Shell Game<br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Chief Justice Roberts’ ruling Thursday in <i>NFIB v. Sebelius</i> is a bitter loss for constitutional conservatives, delivered to us by a judicial Benedict Arnold. Forget the so-called long term victory contained in the commerce clause limitations. There’ s no denying that Roberts’ majority opinion represents a clear judicial defeat for defenders of the Constitution and individual liberty.</span><br />
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Roberts knew he was conjuring up a decision that would make the American people wretch. But judicial activism to limit the power of the individual and extend the powers of the federal government has been going on since the Supreme Court first caved to FDR’ s power grabs in a series of capitulations that culminated in the odious 1942 <i>Wickard v. Filburn</i> decision.<br />
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Now comes the equally odious <i>NFIB v. Sebelius</i> decision, in which Roberts rewrote a law from the bench. The Chief Justice wasn’t writing a legal opinion. He offered a political solution. More importantly, he just told us which team he’s playing on. He’s with the anti-constitutionalists. His legacy as their champion is secure.<br />
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Roberts’ decision to call the individual mandate a “tax” placed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in violation of the Constitution’s Origination Clause. Article 1, Section 7, Clause 1 states: “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”<br />
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<br />Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-8437316306373942372012-06-25T13:02:00.000-07:002012-06-25T13:02:03.447-07:00University of Texas Whitewash of Elizabeth Warren Scientific Misconduct Charge Entangles UVA, UC PresidentsWhen Elizabeth Warren, Teresa A. Sullivan, and Jay Westbrook, co-authors of the 1989 book As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America, were charged by Rutgers Law School Professor Philip Shuchman with scientific misconduct in 1990, they quickly asked for an investigation to clear their names. Sullivan, who resigned earlier this month as President of the University of Virginia, “immediately asked [her] employer, The University of Texas, to investigate the charge,” as she told me in a letter I received by email from her on June 5, 2012.<br />
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By 1990, all three co-authors--Sullivan, Warren, and Westbrook--were well established fixtures in University of Texas academic and social circles. Sullivan was the Chairman of the Sociology Department at the University of Texas, and would soon become the Dean of Graduate Studies. Westbrook was a long-tenured member of the faculty at the University of Texas Law School. Warren, who taught at the University of Texas Law School from 1981 to 1987, had by this time moved on to the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a top ten school with great prestige.<br />
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Warren’s former colleagues at the University of Texas took pride in her emergence as a rising legal star of the left, a reputation she carefully cultivated. According to some who have followed her career, she was considered a master practitioner of hard-nosed academic political tactics, and her critics in the genteel world of higher education were increasingly wary of her.<br />
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It was in that environment that current President of the University of California system Mark Yudof (then Dean of the University of Texas Law School) and current University of Texas Dean of Graduate Studies, ad interim Judith Langlois, wrote the April 1991 report for the investigation that Sullivan requested. It was titled University of Texas Preliminary Inquiry Report: Scientific Misconduct Against Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren, and Jay Westbrook. <br />
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You can read the rest of the story <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/25/University-Texas-Whitewash-Elizabeth-Warren-Scientific-Misconduct-Charge-Entangles-UVA-UC-Presidents">here at Breitbart.com.</a><br />Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-2303425895536291042012-06-17T13:11:00.001-07:002012-06-17T13:11:12.976-07:00Did Breitbart Investigation Play Any Role in Sudden Resignation of UVA President?<br />
Sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence. Sometimes it's more than that.<br />
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Based on all available current evidence, it appears that Teresa A. Sullivan's sudden resignation as President of the University of Virginia this past Sunday was most likely unrelated to an ongoing Breitbart News investigation into twenty-two-year-old allegations of scientific misconduct. However, since none of the key players in this drama--neither the sixteen members of the Board of Visitors who asked for her resignation, nor President Sullivan--have been willing to offer much in the way of explanation, rumors and speculation as to the true reasons for her sudden dismissal have been rampant.<br />
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Here's a chronology that documents the curious coincidence of timing:<br />
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<b><i>You can read the rest of this story <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/16/Did-Breitbart-Investigation-Play-Any-Role-in-Sudden-Resignation-of-UVA-President">here at Breitbart.com</a> . </i></b><br />
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<br />Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-31731018649895197892012-06-13T07:01:00.000-07:002012-06-13T07:01:05.447-07:00The Academic Scandal Elizabeth Warren and Harvard Don't Want You to Know About<br />
<i>Here's the first article in my four part series running now at <b>Breitbart News </b>on 1990 allegations of "scientific misconduct" against Elizabeth Warren.</i><br />
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In 1990, Rutgers Professor Philip Shuchman charged Elizabeth Warren, along with Teresa A. Sullivan (above), the President of University of Virginia who resigned unexpectedly yesterday, and Jay Westbrook, her two co-authors of the 1989 book, <b><i>As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America,</i></b> with “scientific misconduct.” Within a few months, Warren’s friends and former colleagues at the University of Texas quickly completed an error-filled investigation.<br />
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This secret report was accepted by University of Texas President William Cunningham. For two decades, Warren and her co-authors have claimed in academic circles that this report--never before made public--exonerated them.<br />
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You can read the rest of the article <b><i><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/11/The-Academic-Scandal-Elizabeth-Warren-and-Harvard-Dont-Want-You-to-Know-About">here at Breitbart.com</a></i></b> .<br />
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<br />Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-34540113915127861702012-05-30T09:39:00.002-07:002012-05-30T09:39:19.745-07:00BREAKING at BREITBART: Cherokees Demand Truth from Elizabeth Warren<br />
You can read the full story, breaking now at BREITBART, here:<br />
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<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/30/interview-cherokees-demand-truth-from-elizabeth-warren">Cherokees Demand Truth from Elizabeth Warren </a><br />
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<br />Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-28033091063882239142012-04-26T06:48:00.004-07:002012-04-26T06:48:52.293-07:00Covenant of Liberty Book Tour of Western States<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">I'll be speaking at several events as part of The Covenant of Liberty book tour of the western states next week:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><b>Monday, April 30</b> -- Santa Monica Tea Party, Santa Monica, CA</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><b>Tuesday, May 1 </b>-- East Valley Tea Party , Mesa AZ</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><b>Wednesday, May 2</b> -- Albuquerque, New Mexico</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><b>Thursday, May 3 </b>-- Dallas, Texas</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Also, I may be speaking in Santa Barbara CA Sunday April 29 or Monday April 30</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">If you live in any of these areas and would like to attend, please contact me for specific times and locations.</span></span><br />Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-34854423419801347122012-04-24T07:46:00.002-07:002012-04-24T07:46:38.827-07:00Mitt Romney Gets a Copy of Covenant of Liberty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last Monday, I introduced Mitt Romney at a meeting of the Independence Hall Tea Party's Tax Day Tea Party Summit, held at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.<br />
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In my introduction, I said that "t<a href="http://tinyurl.com/7n93odb">he Tea Party reserves the right to encourage the Republican Party nominee to more closely align with the tea party's core values</a>."<br />
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After the event, I gave Governor Romney a copy of my new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062066331/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=0PB311RN1A78P7EGCPFN&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938811&pf_rd_i=507846">Covenant of Liberty: The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement</a>.Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-88189375822148633722012-04-24T07:23:00.001-07:002012-04-24T07:23:55.813-07:00The Coming Conservative Landslide<br />
<span style="color: #4f3b3a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Wishful
liberals and Chicken Little conservatives who watch the weekly fluctuations in
the presidential polls have concluded that President Obama is a shoo-in for
re-election. They point out that Mitt Romney, the likely Republican nominee,
can’t connect with women, has a large likability gap and is slightly behind
Obama in most national polls as well as in the key swing states of Virginia,
North Carolina, Florida and Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f3b3a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The despair of faint-hearted
conservatives deepens when they contemplate President Obama’s disastrous
performance in office. His record of fiscally reckless extremism is
unparalleled in American history. In three short years, federal spending as a
percentage of GDP has climbed from 20% to 24% while the national debt has
exploded from $10 trillion to $15.5 trillion. By the end of his term, Obama
will have increased the national debt by a staggering 67%.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f3b3a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Add to this record President
Obama’s continual disrespect for the Constitution, his unceasing regulatory
attacks on free enterprise and small businesses, his rhetoric of class warfare,
his deceptive demagoguery and his spendthrift economic policies that have
fattened the wallets of his political cronies but created so few jobs that
millions of Americans have simply dropped out of the labor force, and many
conservatives can offer only one explanation for Obama’s current lead in the
polls.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f3b3a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">America, they conclude, must
have lost its can-do spirit of rugged individualism and replaced it with what
Governor Chris Christie recently called an attitude of “paternalistic
entitlement” championed by a coalition of political elites, acolytes in the
mainstream media, crony capitalists and an ever-growing dependency class.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #4f3b3a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Conservatives across the
nation should be of good cheer, however. The United States remains a
center-right nation. This November, voters will choose common sense over
fiscally reckless extremism in what will be a landslide conservative victory.
Republicans will retain the House, gain the Senate and win back the presidency
with a 2-to-1 Electoral College margin.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f3b3a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">You can read the rest of the
story at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/18/the-coming-conservative-landslide/"><span style="color: #a31216;">The Daily Caller</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Although my new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062066331/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=0PB311RN1A78P7EGCPFN&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938811&pf_rd_i=507846">Covenant of Liberty: The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement</a> , won't be released until March 20, my publisher, HarperCollins' new conservative imprint, Broadside Books, overnighted one advanced copy of the book to me on Friday so that I could give it to Rick Santorum on Saturday.
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The occasion was the Chattanooga Tea Party's celebration of the Third Anniversary of the launch of the Tea Party movement. Santorum was the featured speaker, and I was one of a few who spoke before he addressed the crowd, which was quite large (I estimate about 2,000.)
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After the event, I was able to have a brief conversation with Senator Santorum. I think it helped when I pointed out that both Richard Viguerie and John Bolton had written very nice back jacket blurbs. I thanked Senator Santorum for engaging with the Tea Party movement, and suggested that he consider aligning his policies more closely with our three core values. The Senator was very gracious.Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-31712950555296345992012-01-30T04:06:00.000-08:002012-01-30T04:06:04.049-08:00Tea Party Leaders to Florida Voters: Santorum, Gingrich, and Paul Should Continue Past FloridaYou can see the full Election Day Tea Party press release <a href=http://electiondayteaparty.squarespace.com/news/2012/1/30/tea-party-leaders-to-florida-voters-santorum-gingrich-and-pa.html>here.</a>Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-36483020802794685332012-01-27T16:12:00.001-08:002012-01-27T16:13:25.301-08:00What's Next for the Tea Party Movement? Election Day Tea Party 2012<iframe width="360" height="215" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YwVV3LxJViM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-38627949452382485172012-01-24T13:51:00.000-08:002012-01-24T13:57:24.501-08:00Time for Warren Buffett and his Secretary to Release Their Personal Tax ReturnsThe political theater of the Obama Administration continues at this evening’s State of the Union Address. Debbie Bosanek, Warren Buffett’s personal secretary–you know the woman who has become the poster-child for President Obama’s attacks on the “unfairness” of the not progressive enough tax code–will be seated in the First Lady’s box this evening. Buffett has repeatedly lectured to us about a tax code in which his secretary pays a higher tax rate than he does.
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Ms. Bosanek, who until recently had only been thrust into the public dialogue over “fairness” and redistribution by her publicity seeking and political favor hunting boss (note how his Burlington Railroad company benefits financially from the President’s decision to halt the Keystone Pipeline) has now thrust herself into the national debate.
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Fair enough.
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Now that she’s voluntarily participating in the public arena, I call on both Ms. Bosanek and Mr. Buffett to release their own personal tax returns for the past four years. Let’s see what their tax rates really are. This is an important political argument that will be a central theme of the Obama campaign for the rest of the year. Having made the claim on behalf of the Obama campaign, it’s time for Mr. Buffett and Ms. Bosanek to demonstrate its veracity.
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I suspect we’ll find that Mr. Buffett has benefited significantly from his own lobbying of Congress. And I’m curious to see exactly how much higher Ms. Bosanek’s tax rate is than Mr. Buffett’s.
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The analysis of their personal tax returns is likely to be highly educational for the entire country.
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More commentary at <a href="http://www.broadsidebooks.net/">Broadside Books' Line of Fire here</a>.
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Michael Patrick Leahy is the editor of the Voices of the Tea Party e-book series, co-founder of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, and co-organizer of Election Day Tea Party 2012. His new book,Covenant of Liberty: The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement, will be published by Broadside Books in spring, 2012. He can be reached on Twitter at @michaelpleahy .Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-13458101204072069942011-12-18T17:01:00.000-08:002011-12-18T17:06:06.231-08:00Monday Morning Radio: Obama's New Nationalism More Sukarno Than Teddy RooseveltI'll be talking with WWTN Radio's Ralph Bristol tomorrow morning (Monday) at 8 am cst about my American Thinker article <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/obamas_new_nationalism_more_sukarno_than_teddy_roosevelt.html">"Barack Obama's New Nationalism More Sukarno Than Teddy Roosevelt."</a> <br /><br /><br />You can listen live and call in from anywhere in the country <a href="http://www.997wtn.com/Onair/RalphBristol/tabid/171/Default.aspx">here</a>. <br /><br />Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36623192.post-69651858917533580622011-12-06T15:17:00.000-08:002011-12-06T15:22:25.328-08:00Newt Gingrich, Champion of Hamiltonian StatismOn the Glenn Beck radio program today, Newt Gingrich once more confirmed his support for Hamiltonian industrial policies. In some instances, such as ethanol, Gingrich argued, the federal government should subsidize some industries over others. In other instances, such as the automobile industry, such subsidies should not be undertaken.<br /><br />Gingrich failed to offer a convincing argument why subsidies are appropriate for some industries and companies, but not others.<br /><br />When he cited the history of subsidies to manufacturers and other companies in America, the former professor of history got in to big trouble with those of us who support the three core values of the Tea Party movement: (1) Constitutionally Limited Government (2) Free Markets and (3) Fiscal Responsibility.<br /><br />Gingrich pointed to two examples of “successful” industrial subsidies in our nation’s first century — Alexander Hamilton’s 1791 <span style="font-weight:bold;">Report on Manufactures</span> and the transconstinental railroad built during the 1860s.<br /><br />He could not have found two better examples that illustrate the corrupting nature of the federal government picking winners and losers. In fact, “Professor” Gingrich seems to have either missed history’s lessons about the adverse affects of crony capitalism, or he’s emulating some big-government villains in American history.<br /><br />As I point out in my new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Covenant-Liberty-Ideological-Origins-Movement/dp/0062066331/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1313454219&sr=8-2"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Covenant of Liberty: The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement</span></a>, Alexander Hamilton was the original champion of crony capitalism. Indeed, before introducing his <span style="font-weight:bold;">Report on Manufactures</span> to the Second Congress in December, 1791, Hamilton had organized and raised capital for a private company called <span style="font-style:italic;">The Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures</span>. Though he himself was not an investor, he wrote the prospectus, and persuaded his many financial speculator friends in New York City to invest in the deal. Why wouldn’t they? With the public backing of the Secretary of the Treasury, it was a sure thing. Hamilton persuaded the State Government of New Jersey to invest, as well as numerous Congressmen, a future Supreme Court Justice, and the Governor of New Jersey himself.<br /><br />In his<span style="font-weight:bold;"> Report on Manufactures</span>, Hamilton asked Congress to subsidize this very company, without specifically naming it. The Chairman of SEUM, a financial manipulator by the name of William Duer, soon was caught up in the first national Wall Street financial scandal, emptied all the investor funds from the company, and went to debtors prison. Hamilton got his friends at the Bank of New York (where much of the federal government’s funds were invested) to loan $10,000 to the essentially bankrupt enterprise, and it limped along for another five years before it became, at least temporarily, a shell company.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">SEUM</span> purchased land in what is now Paterson, New Jersey, and the ruins of its buildings can be seen there today. Why did the enterprise fail ? Because neither Hamilton nor any of the investors in the company (the speculators and politicians) knew anything about manufacturing.<br /><br />This is a project that Gingrich points to as an example we should emulate today?<br /><br />It gets worse.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">You can read the rest of this article at Broadside Books’ Line of Fire <a href="http://broadsidebooks.net/2011/12/06/newt-gingrich-champion-of-hamiltonian-statism/">here</a>. </span>Michael Patrick Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682711779511069175noreply@blogger.com1