It's interesting. When the Texas thing came up earlier, I suggested people go to the board's site and see what's actually going on. Apparently, nobody did. Obviously the boob who wrote this article didn't.

Jamestown: I think Armey made a mistake, apparently confusing the Plymouth Colony, whose story is widely circulated as an example of collectivism vs. individualism, with Jamestown.

The Federalist papers are about the principles of Federalism, which are also under attack in the current expansion of centralized power.

I went through a detailed history of the start of the Depression here once, including a lot of interesting bits from Roosevelt's campaign speeches and more history of Hoover's administration and actions, showing that the latter was anything but the "laissez faire" type he's painted as by liberals. I also linked to papers describing exactly how the "New Deal" made the recession worse. That didn't go over well.

The "Joe McCarthy" bit was amusing. Essentially it says well, yes, McCarthy was right, but he was still a dick, which is pretty much how most sensible conservatives see him.

Most Americans are discovering that yes, there are two sides to the question of how government should relate to the individual. For those of us who do pay attention to history, this has been obvious for many years. There is not a hell of a lot of actual middle ground between liberty and tyranny, just slopes tilting one way or the other.

Your first paragraph was almost deranged. What ARE you doing with your time?