Those are the words of Frederick Douglass, a courageous and brilliant man. In his own life he became a free man because knowledge freed him. When he realized that fact he said “From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.”1 Douglass originally meant this to reveal the pathway to freedom from slavery…

In the 20th century the Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling 90 times.1 According to Time, since 1960 the ceiling has been raised 78 times.2 It’s been raised two more times since that Time article was written. Here are the dates that the debt ceiling has been raised over the past decade: September 8,…