"I mentioned slavery earlier. If you’re anything like me, you attended public schools for 13 years and somehow never learned that slavery ended peacefully in many countries just years before the Civil War. Of course, I come from Jersey, where even the Founding Fathers aren’t safe from revisionist school boards. But the point is, we ended one contradiction to freedom—slavery—with a series of further contradictions. Big Gov’t solutions, I mean, like military conscription, the suspension of habeas corpus, the silencing of presses, and the introduction of income taxes. So slaves are free now, and thank God for that, but 600,000 black and white Americans died in a war that, again, didn’t necessarily have to happen to bring slavery to its demise."And that’s not to say it wasn’t worth freeing the slaves. It was. But the same Big Gov’t that the Civil War gave us persists to this day, running schools that teach children—like yours truly, once upon a time—its one-sided view of said war. The point I’m trying to make here is that when we treat liberty irresponsibly, we create problems that threaten to destroy it. "
I am excited! I feel like having a party.