May

29

Thomas DiLorenzo on C-SPAN’s Q&A

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5/25/2008

Tom’s Books:
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War

Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe

And his new book coming in October 2008:
Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution–and What It Means for Americans Today


May

29

Thomas DiLorenzo on C-SPAN’s Q&A

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5/25/2008

Tom’s Books:
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War

Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe

And his new book coming in October 2008:
Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution–and What It Means for Americans Today


Dec

27

Ron Paul vs. The Stand In Ignoramus

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Raw Story has the video of David Shuster, MSNBC’s military analyst Col. Jack Jacobs and Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe with Ron Paul calling in to face Schuster’s inquisition on Lincoln heresies.
Ron Paul who finds this diversionary dialog a tiresome distraction from the issues that face us today suggests to Schuster and Jacobs that if they want to know something about the history of Lincoln and the Civil War that they should start by reading Tom DiLorenzo’s book The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War and like get back to me when you have a clue.
Ah! but these MSNBC BS artists won’t have any of that book learnin stuff, Jacobs especially made it clear that he won’t read anything but war is good, peace is bad books.

Thomas DiLorenzo writes this morning on the LRC blog:

Joe Scarborough’s stand-in on the “Morning Joe” television program, David Shuster, once again has tried to smear Ron Paul, and once again reveals his ignorance in doing so. This morning Ron called in to correct the lies that various neocons like Shuster have been spreading about what he said to Tim Russert about Lincoln and his war. Shuster adamantly claimed that Ron had “embarrassed himself” by claiming that Lincoln did not invade his own country to free the slaves. But it is Shuster who is embarrassingly ignorant of his own history. In fact, it would be hard to find a single American historian with any credibility who would argue that in 1861 an invasion of the Southern states was launched to free the slaves. Shuster is not only unaware of what is written in my book, The Real Lincoln, but also of what is in almost all other books on the war.

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Aug

2

Quote of the Week

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Goes to Tom DiLorenzo. Referring to Mark Davis and his hit piece on Real Clear Politics.

“Only an intellectual pygmie would equate “America” with the federal government.”

It’s obvious that Mark Davis, when all is said and done is a one issue kind of guy, This proves it: “But it is the Ron Paul take on fighting terror that makes him unfit for even the briefest consideration for the presidency.”

I also eagerly await a Mark Davis follow up explaining the great Federal Reserve System and fiat money since he’s such a true non-artificial “know-it-all”.
The “John Birch-style conspiracy geekdom” of “three to six years of adulthood” want to know. It would give us another good laugh anyway and could only reinforce his intellectual pygmie status.

Apr

25

Thomas DiLorenzo on Free America Radio This Thursday

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Thomas J. DiLorenzo, professor of economics at Loyola College and author of How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War and Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe will be a guest on Free America Radio with Jim Ostrowski this Thursday, April 26, 1pm EST, streaming online at WNYMedia.net.

Email questions to: studio@wnymedia.net or call 716-886-9696..

Tom is also a columnist at LewRockwell.com and a senior fellow at the Ludwig Von Mises Institute


Mar

24

Speaking of Communism…

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Thomas DiLorenzo reports on LRC that the Maryland State Legislature (Nanny Commies) is about to pass a statewide ban on smoking in all bars and restaurants.

“One of the local news channels this morning reported from an American Legion hall (which wants to be exempted) and came up with this great quote from a crusty old Korean War veteran with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other: “This is communism. It’s what they did in Russia. I didn’t fight for my country to come home and live under communism!”"

Feb

20

Thinking Anew About Lincoln

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So you’ve probably been partying all day celebrating Presidents Day. It’s not really Washington and Lincoln’s birthday, but by federal dictate it is the official birthday holiday for these two very different presidents which only have one thing in common, they were both born in the month of February.
Government types always seem to assume the right to revise history for its own purposes, usually to glorify big government and justify their unconstitutional laws, and I’m sure politicians everywhere are quoting (usually out of context) Washington and Lincoln to make themselves look smart and patriotic, when in reality they are more likely dumb or dishonest.
One thing about history as told by politicians and court historians that is interesting, but disturbing, is that a lot of history is not history at all, but myth. For book authors, writing warm and fuzzy biographies about past presidents, no matter how nefarious they may have been in real life, are a sure ticket to a best seller and maybe even a fat paycheck at a government institution for further spreading propaganda. People love to believe past presidents were all heroes (especially war presidents), and they’ll eat up the myths hook, line and sinker, and give up their money readily to feel good about American history, no matter how skewed it is presented.
Of all presidents, Lincoln is probably the most mythical and most revered as a saint-like figure among Americans. Thank god for guys like Tom DiLorenzo, author of The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War and Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe, who has busted the Lincoln myths and has presented the uncomfortable historical record as it really was. You can believe DiLorenzo or not, if not look up the sources yourself, I did. The truth is stranger than myth.

Read Tom’s latest article from LewRockwell.com

Presidential Repression
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
The neocon pundit Frank Gaffney had his war lust tempered a bit last week when he invoked a fake quote by Lincoln in a Washington Times column in which he viciously attacked congressional opponents of an escalation of the war in the Middle East to Iran and beyond. He called them all traitors by quoting Dishonest Abe as supposedly saying, “Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.”
The source of the quote was a December 23, 2003 Insight magazine column by Michael Waller, who now admits that the quote is not genuine. How disappointed our Strangelovian neocons (a.k.a., the Republican Party) must be. Poor Rep. Don Young of Alaska was forced to apologize for calling his congressional colleagues traitors under the supposed cover of “Father Abraham,” as the Jaffa cult calls him. In a supreme act of humility, Congressman Young confessed to the Washington Post on February 16 that he “was not advocating the hanging of Democrats.” (Not yet, anyway.)

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