Free Republic

On September 29th 2008 my wife and I and our oldest grandchild waited patiently in a nearby park while our newest grandchild was about to be born. That Monday, several hundred miles to the east, America’s financial community was literally given its economic walking papers as Wall Street delivered crushing economic news. That day Dow Jones plunged 777 points and the market lost an incredible 1.2 trillion in market value -- the largest single-point plunge in America’s history. It withered main street America retirement plans, college savings plans, and housing mortgages. Each successive week brought an escalating tidal wave of...

Something bad and dangerous is happening in Barack Obama's America. The powers that the Obama administration claimed in order to arrest the financial crisis and mitigate the recession are being used and abused in ways that are underming the legal and financial stability of the United States. Investors: You are warned. The first warning was the attempt to snatch Chrysler's assets away from their rightful owners to pay off administration friends and supporters. The Obama plan to save Chrysler would have sold Chrysler's most valuable assets into a new company co-owned by the U. S. and Canadian governments, Fiat and...

Our first guest is Larry Schweikart, a professor of history at the University of Dayton, specializing in business and economic history, technology and war issues, and American history. He is co-author with University of Washington - Tacoma professor Michael Patrick Allen of A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror. His new book is "48 Liberal Lies About American History." Our second guest is Professor Kevin R. C. Gutzman, an expert in the Middle Period of American history, 1760-1877, with additional areas of expertise in American constitutional and Southern history. Dr. Gutzman...