About Edward Cline

Edward Cline is a novelist who has written on the revolutionary war period. He is author of the Sparrowhawk series of novels set in England and Virginia in the Revolutionary period, the detective novel First Prize, the suspense novel Whisper the Guns, and of numerous published articles, book reviews and essays.


Articles by Edward Cline

Hearts of Darkness (January 11, 2010)
If Reid is guilty of anything, which is his greater offense? Saying something uncouth, or advocating and working hard to bring about the destruction of American liberty?

States' Rights: Dumb Show and Noise (January 6, 2010)
Who is to object to the states invoking their 'states' rights' and imposing the same powers and regulations as Hatch objects to Congress assuming?

Republics vs. Democracies (December 30, 2009)
Democracy, whether pure or directly participatory (as in ancient Greece or New England), or via national plebiscite, is simply mob rule. Politely defined: majority rule. We have what could be said to be a representative government, but what is the chief function of our representatives, as opposed to their perceived function? Their actual, intended function was to serve as guardians of individual rights. Their perceived function, at least for the last century or so, is to patronize the real or imagined wants of the majority and to deliver them through coercive and confiscatory legislation.

Facts are Stubborn Things: King Obama (December 26, 2009)
No better justice to President Barack Hussein Obamas boast in the Washington Post of his political achievements can be done than to adapt portions of the Declaration of Independence to the subject of his accomplishments. Not all of the charges against George III in 1776 listed in Jeffersons masterpiece are applicable. This charge sheet can also be leveled at Congress. I include only those offences which can be annotated. Call it not a parody, but a serious, appropriate, and well-deserved iteration.

A Copenhagen Postmortem (December 21, 2009)
Nowhere to run -- except into the custody of the Green Gestapo.

Obama's War on America (December 13, 2009)
A peak inside the Obama formula.

The Climate "Creationists" (December 5, 2009)
Catastrophic global warming is a religion, not a science. Global warming advocates are "creationists" because, in their view, man is the exclusive "creator" of the potential -- nay, they say the inevitability -- of catastrophic climate change.

The IPCC's Square Pegs and Round Holes (November 30, 2009)
Environmentalists, global warming advocates, and the government all have a vested interest in the 'truth' of catastrophic climate change.

Fork-Tongued in Washington (November 23, 2009)
This is in the way of a correction to my Fork-Tongued in Shanghai (November 21), and of a footnote about our fork-tongued Senators as they sanction the groundwork of totalitarianism in this country.

President Barack Obama: Fork-Tongued in Shanghai (November 21, 2009)
Hengjun understands what neither Obama nor his White House minions and departmental appointees do not: that a free press and free speech can oppose, criticize, and even check the depredations of government.

Natural Allies Against Liberty (November 17, 2009)
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops lent its endorsement to the 2,000+ page health care bill passed by the House last week (H.R. 3962), when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her arm-twisting cohorts persuaded others to okay the Stupak-Pitts Amendment. The amendment would prohibit insurance companies from including coverage for federally-subsidized abortions in their health plans, or so restrict them that it would not encourage any insurance company to include an abortion as a covered medical procedure.

In Congress, Ignorance is Strength (November 12, 2009)
"Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?"

The Mainstream Smearing of Ayn Rand (October 28, 2009)
Her stalwart critics cannot refute her philosophy; so...

The Oblique Smearing of Ayn Rand (October 24, 2009)
Someday, if Western civilization survives the double onslaught of statism and Islam -- only it will describe the phoenix of reason and the world Ayn Rand helped to make possible.

How Obama Earned The Ignoble Nobel Peace Prize (October 10, 2009)
One searches in vain through the whole list of Nobel Peace Prize winners from 1901 to the present for a single laureate whose work measurably advanced the cause of peace.

"High Noon" for the First Amendment (October 7, 2009)
Obama's idea of a 'free press' is to appear on popular talk shows and news analysis programs whose hosts he can count on not to pose questions of any substance.

Cass Sunstein: "Czar" in Wolf's Clothing (October 6, 2009)
Cass Sunstein, for all his academic credentials and books, is just another member of the Chicago-Beltway wolf pack. Hear them yelp and howl for "democracy."

Obama's Accomplices in the Republican Party (October 3, 2009)
Republicans: Ready to Embrace Freedom? Or to help Obama and the Democrats shoplift it?

Islamized Europe: Philosophical Continental Drift (October 2, 2009)
As many "radical" Islamic spokesmen have smugly observed, if Europe cannot be "reconquered" with military jihad, it can be conquered with population jihad. Which is exactly what is happening.

Philosophical Continental Drift in Europe (October 2, 2009)
The self-censorship practiced by Europeans only encourages Islamic hubris.

"High Noon" for the First Amendment (September 30, 2009)
Obama cannot but believe that freedom of the press is also a nuisance, that the people have been 'poisoned' by it to oppose his agenda, and that the 'lies' on which that opposition is founded ought to be punished.

The Perilous Ambiguities in the Constitution (September 16, 2009)
"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade..."

Reason is Forever (September 10, 2009)
Liberals are now awakening to the evidence that President Barack Obama and his web of cronies, pull-peddlers, appointees and assorted parasites -- that alliance of the Chicago and Beltway Gangs -- are planning to move in on freedom of speech with every intention of "modifying" it so that it means only what the government wants it to mean.

Barack Obama: Heil Headmaster! (September 5, 2009)
Someone else may have said it first: When the adults won’t listen, go after the kids.

Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy: Rest in Perdition (September 3, 2009)
The Kennedys should be damned, not revered or mourned. The whole corrupt, smarmy, elitist lot of them.

Obama's DNC Mouthpiece (August 10, 2009)
More power to Americans if they can intimidate presumptuous, power-seeking, sanctimonious lawmakers.

Obama's Email Stunt and the March to Fascism (August 6, 2009)
How dare you refer to Americans criticizing your socialist health and economic plans, and the facts they are bringing to light about your whole power-lusting, corrupt regime as fishy? How dare you threaten to abrogate their First Amendment rights?

America's Mobocracy (August 3, 2009)
A minor facet of the Obama administration itself is the 'gangster government' character of his White House staff and his cabinet and departmental appointees.

The Original Tea Party and Ours: Where the Parallels Stop (July 20, 2009)
Ladies, gentlemen, Americans: I am here today to shed some light on parallels between the original Tea Party and ours -- and where the parallels stop.

The New Tea Parties: An Overture to Reclaiming Our Lost Freedom (July 14, 2009)
Americans must act to finish the American Revolution -- before Obama and Congress finish this country.

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