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“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington

Rewriting the French Revolution — Part II
The Brave Girondins Unfortunately, in her book, Radicals: Politics and Republicanism in the French Revolution, Leigh Ann Whaley seems to admire the most radical Jacobins

The Electoral College and the U.S. Presidential Elections Revisited
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom established a Constitutional Republic with a federal system in which each and every state, large and small, has a

An Old Dictator Stumbles — An Analysis
Seventy-eight-year-old Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, dressed in his usual olive green fatigues, tripped and fell fracturing his left knee and sustaining a hairline fracture of

Bastille Day And The French Revolution (Part III): The Denouement
We have seen that the French Revolution did not give the French people a true constitutional republic extending to its citizens the natural rights of

Socialized Medicine in Cuba (Part II): “Doctor Diplomacy,” Sex Tourism, and Medical Apartheid
In Part I of this essay, we discussed the secret epidemic of dengue fever, the Cuban gulag, and other aspects of Cuban medicine leading to

Socialized (Free) Medical Care in Cuba (Part I): A Poor State of Health
Those in the United States who yearn for a more “egalitarian” and “equitable” system of medical care “like the one in Cuba” are not familiar