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Remembering the Internment of Japanese Americans

Seventy-one years ago today an overzealous general, following unconstitutional orders from his commander-in-chief, started sending American citizens living in California to internment camps outside the state for the crime of being...

100 Years Ago: Instituting the Income Tax

The ratification of the 16th Amendment — the income tax — caused profound changes throughout the United States. Not surprisingly, though the amendment was sold as a tax-the-rich plan, that wasn’t...

Before the Income Tax

Yes, the U.S. government did at one time run large budget surpluses, and the revenue was generated without resorting to an income tax. ...

Rise of Christendom

Christians, despite facing intermittent bouts of slaughter at the hands of Roman leaders, not only grew in numbers over the centuries, they eventually subsumed Rome’s empire. ...