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Who were the best US Presidents?

In Ivan Eland’s book "Re-carving Rushmore" he examines each U.S. president according to the level of success they had in advancing the causes of peace, prosperity, and liberty. Basically which US presidents did the best job at doing what they were supposed to do.

Here are the ones Eland rates as the top 5: pictured from top to bottom, Martin Van Buren the 8th president, John Tyler the 10th, Rutherford B. Hayes the 19th, Chester A. Arthur the 21st, and Grover Cleveland the 22nd and 24th. His criteria was based on their accomplishments in maintaining a limited government. None of them got us into senseless wars, none brought on or continued economic depressions or recessions and none of them expanded the power of the central government.

Notice that by these standards we have not had a really good president since the 1890s and if you believe in freedom each one since then since then seems a little worse than the one before. If we had a candidate like one of these 5 old guys it might be worth voting.

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America Needs a More Restrained National Security Strategy - Ivan Eland

America Needs a More Restrained National Security Strategy - Ivan Eland via #LibertarianHippie

As the American cable news entertainment channels focus on the artificial “American Sniper” controversy, the Obama administration’s issuance of its second and final national security strategy (the last one was done in 2010) was buried deep in the back pages of the newspapers. Unfortunately, most Americans don’t choose to know much about U.S. foreign policy or American history, and therefore even…

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The Crusader State versus the Foreign Policy of the Old Right

The Crusader State versus the Foreign Policy of the Old Right

The foreign policy of the Old Right of the Republican Party is undergoing a revival through the now retired Congressmen Ron Paul and now his son, Senator Rand Paul. They are the joint heirs of the Old Right of the Republican Party and Senator Robert A. Taft.

In The Republican Road Not Taken: The Foreign-Policy Vision of Robert A. TaftMichael T. Hayes argues that Taft was isolationist, which is…

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Why Is the U.S. So Hypocritical in Foreign Policy? - Ivan Eland

Why Is the U.S. So Hypocritical in Foreign Policy? – Ivan Eland

In the current crisis over the Russian “invasion” of Crimea (is it an invasion when the population seems to want to be invaded and no violence occurs?), US protests seem rather hypocritical to the world. After all, recently, the United States has attacked or invaded six countries – Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya using ground troops or manned aircraft and Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia using unpiloted…

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