by Rhett | Jun 13, 2018 | Ideas
Chris Calton continues his Historical Controversies podcast which is an in-depth review of the Civil War. After Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers to suppress the “Southern Rebellion,” the Upper South states reconsidered their decision to remain in the Union. As...
by FLEXIT | Dec 13, 2016 | News
by The Z Man Whenever the word “secession” is uttered, it is assumed that angry, racist honkies from the South are trying to stand athwart history, keeping America from reaching the great beige future imagined by the Founders. After all, the story of America is Yankee...
by FLEXIT | Dec 10, 2016 | Ideas
The Mises Institute held a seminar on secession that greatly inspired myself to create this site. Well the Washington Post which has a history of smearing secessionist was in attendance. This did not go unnoticed by Tom Woods who dedicated his speech to the WaPo...
by FLEXIT | Dec 9, 2016 | Ideas
There is a common smear labeled against secessionists that you must be pro-slavery to be a secessisonist. This is wildly untrue. Tom Woods covers Lysander Spooner who was a dedicated abolitionist and a proponent of secession. Source: Ep. 322 Lysander Spooner:...
by FLEXIT | Dec 8, 2016 | Ideas, News
Actor and presidential speechwriter Ben Stein thinks secession talk is “silly,” and then proceeds to repeat the usual non-arguments against it. Listen as Ben Stein gets the Tom Woods takedown.