The Completed Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin is drawn entirely from Benjamin Franklin’s writings. In the book, Franklin relates how “a farmer of great sense” told his fellow Pilgrims that instead of a day of fasting and prayer, “they should proclaim a thanksgiving.” After all, as Franklin paraphrased him, “their seas and rivers were full of fish,…

Ask how the economy is doing these days, and you’ll get answers all over the place. We believe the Great Recession never ended, but that while there is potential for a turnaround, you should prepare for the worst. One gauge of whether consumers at large perceive the economy to be good or bad is how…

I have long written to you that so-called modern allopathic medicine is a very esoteric witchcraft — a deceptive practice that has little or nothing to do with curing or healing, but it does have to do with a multitrillion-dollar industry. Occasionally, a reader still writes to me, skeptical that this is the real history…

In the 12th edition of the Merck Manual, pg. 1761, the authors list coffee enemas as a medical treatment. It’s a do-it-yourself liver detoxification, and cleansing the liver can reverse degenerative disease. Well, as you can guess, they have long since removed that little gem of wisdom. The sick care system doesn’t want you to…

Why are politicians (with a few exceptions) so anti the American people? Why do they consistently promote socialism? Why do they have no financial responsibility? Why do they always promote the socialist agenda, like the Obamacare bill and the passage of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that did away with human liberty and personal…

Many people go through their days never giving a thought to the blood racing through their roughly 100,000 miles of blood vessels. But if you’ve been recommended for or are taking blood pressure medications, then the opposite is true. But for all who will listen, I’ve always recommended a more natural approach to help systolic…

“Mere inflation – that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices – may look like the creation of more demand. But in terms of the actual production and exchange of real things it is not.” — Henry Hazlitt, “Economics in One Lesson” Still, despite knowledge like this having…

Most of us are probably familiar with William Gibson, the Science Fiction writer who coined the term “cyberspace.” His most famous book is Neuromancer, a tale of an Artificial Intelligence entity trying to gain sentience. He published it in 1984 (coincidence?), but the potential dangers of AI had already been codified into our popular culture.…

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” — John Adams, The Works of John…

It’s been more than 15 years since hedge fund manager Bernie Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme was exposed, and he was sent upriver with a 150-year sentence. You’d think the massive publicity the scandal generated would put investors on guard against such chicanery. But they’re still falling for Ponzi schemes and losing millions of dollars…