Feb

10

Woods and Folsom on Glenn Beck

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Thomas E. Woods, author of Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse and Burton W. Folsom Jr., author of New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America on Glenn Beck


Jul

16

Tom Woods at the July 12th Revolution March & Rally

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Jul

16

Tom Woods at the July 12th Revolution March & Rally

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Jul

9

New Book: Who Killed the Constitution?

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A dynamic duo of history, Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin Gutzman co-authored a new book, Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush. If you are like me and want to delve into one the most heinous murder mysteries in the history of liberty, you can’t wait to find out who done it.

An introduction by Tom Woods:

Who Killed the Constitution?
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Today is the official release date for Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush (Random House/Crown Forum), the book I wrote with Kevin Gutzman, the New York Times bestselling author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution.

In a sense, our book states the obvious: the United States government today is restrained not by the Constitution but simply by a sense of what it can get away with.

But ours is not the standard right-wing lament about the emasculation of the Constitution at the hands of liberal judges, though such judges receive in our pages none of the superstitious reverence Americans are taught to have for the judiciary. (Mencken once described a judge as merely a law student who graded his own examination papers.) To the contrary, we suggest that all three branches of the federal government, either separately or in collusion, have been responsible for turning the Constitution into just a museum piece, and that conservatives and liberals alike have much to answer for as well.

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Sep

16

33 Questions - An Interview With Tom Woods

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Jeff Tucker interviews Tom Woods on his new book 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask


Sep

9

Thomas Woods on C-SPAN

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Tom Woods discusses his book The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to American History (Politically Incorrect Guides) on BookTV.
Great book!
And Tom is a Ron Paul supporter.


Jul

10

New Book! 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed To Ask

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Tom Woods, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to American History (Politically Incorrect Guides) has a new book being released today, 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask.

The PIG book was great and sits proudly on my book shelf. It never seems to collect dust though, misconceptions about American History are commonplace and I’ve had to show it to a number of friends who still believed in the propaganda they were taught in government school. Tom’s new book is covering even more topics and I’m expecting another well researched and informative read. Also, Tom Woods is a Ron Paul supporter and like Ron Paul he tells only the truth.

Tom has a few words to say about his new book on LewRockwell.com today.

Today is the official release date for my new book, 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask, from Random House/Crown Forum.

These are questions that receive incomplete, misleading, or absolutely false answers in the standard treatment of American history. Most are simply never raised in the first place, since they might give rise to forbidden thoughts that run counter to established opinion.

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UPDATE: Tom Woods was a guest on Mickelson in the Morning on July 11th. Download and listen to the MP3 here.


May

18

Tom Woods Asks - Do Conservatives Hate Their Own Founder?

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“Toward the end of his life, Russell Kirk, one of the great founders of American conservatism, became contemptuous of Republican militarism. Didn’t know that? Neither do most readers of National Review, for which Kirk wrote for so many years.

Kirk’s opposition to relentless war makes him a “liberal” in NR’s lexicon. Now it would be kind of hard to describe the key founder of modern American conservatism as a liberal, harder even than NR’s task of making the obviously corrupt (and personally sleazy) former federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani seem like something we should want in a U.S. president. So the whole Kirk problem is simply passed over in silence.

Young conservatives, take note: what you are about to encounter is the voice of the real thing, whose opinions are worth more than those of a million talk-show ignoramuses put together. That these views would never, ever get published in the typical “conservative” magazine today tells you all you need to know about the state of the “conservative movement”: so remote is it from the genuine article that Kirk himself would be unwelcome.”

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May

10

Do you love the Fed? You might be a Progressive

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Tom Woods asks why progressives love the Federal Reserve. Of course the correct answer is: ignorance of monetary and banking history and economics in general.

In the progressive la-la land, the Federal Reserve was founded when the American people demanded reform of the banking industry, and their elected representatives, eager to contribute to the public good, complied with their wishes. The resulting Federal Reserve smooths out the business cycle and keeps our economy strong.

Anyone interested in living on this planet, on the other hand, might be interested to know a fact that almost sounds too spooky and conspiratorial to be true: bankers in fact drafted the Federal Reserve Act themselves, in a private meeting in Jekyll Island, Georgia, in 1910. And – can you believe it? – it was not designed to benefit the public at bankers’ expense; oddly enough, bankers drew up legislation that benefited themselves.

Now this is not how bills are drawn up according to your tenth-grade social-studies class, which gives you the government line: bills are drawn up by the people’s public-spirited representatives in order to benefit and protect them. That’s a nice way to think about it if you’re in the business of keeping the racket going, but not especially useful if you actually want to know how the world works.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE: Why Do They Love the Fed?

Mar

27

The Revolutionary Candidate

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Tom Woods on Ron Paul at LewRockwell.com

No one quite knows what to do about Congressman Ron Paul, Republican candidate for president.

He refuses to play by the rules. He’s a bigger supporter of the free market than anyone in Congress, but he’s also the most consistent opponent of war. (That the conjunction of these positions – which amount to classical liberalism in a nutshell – should actually seem surprising or odd goes to show how perverse our political system has become.)

Other than Dennis Kucinich, he is the only authentic antiwar candidate in either party. He has won so many awards from the National Taxpayers Union that he’s probably lost count. CNET rated him the best out of all 435 congressmen in the House of Representatives on issues relating to the Internet. There is no more reliable civil libertarian in Congress than Ron Paul.

His conduct, moreover, is beyond reproach. Lobbyists don’t even bother going to his office. If their scheme doesn’t fall among the federal government’s enumerated powers under the Constitution, they know perfectly well that there is no chance Ron Paul will support it.

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