Over the last few months I have been keeping an eye on the tea party movement. My participation has waned and heightened throughout, from my first impressions to my ultimate conclusions about the utility of tea parties. This weekend I was able to glean a different perspective when they asked me to deliver one of the speeches at the DC Independence Day Tea Party at Upper Senate Park next to the Capitol Building.  This time, I was able to get a…

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Those who say we tried the free market and it failed should research the history of the Boston Tea Party a little.  We didn’t even have a free market in the 18th century, a period referred to in British history as The Whig Supremacy.  Here’s the background; and to prove that there is nothing new under the sun, it involves company rent-seeking, market distortion, bailouts and stealth taxes.

As early as 1698, the English Parliament awarded the East India Company the…

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