Category Archives: Politics
Thomas Jefferson: Can the Dead Bind the Living?
Thomas Jefferson’s question is particularly poignant as the U.S. government continues to run up the national debt. It currently stands at nearly $20 trillion and growing. In all likelihood, our great, great, great grandchildren will still be burdened by this debt.
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Dismantle the FBI, and Give its Money Back to the States
Why does the US need a huge national police force at all? Can’t state police forces do just as well? The FBI continues to assert never-proven claims that bigger governments are better at law enforcement than smaller ones. If the FBI were abolished, and the sum were divided up into 50 even portions for the states, each state would receive $174 million dollars.
Read moreDebt Insanity: Does Anyone In Washington Even Care That We Are 20 Trillion Dollars In Debt?
There has been a tremendous amount of talk about the spending deal that was just reached in Congress. Most of the focus has been on who “won” and who “lost” politically. But what nobody is really talking about is that this deal actually increases spending at a time when our debt has been absolutely exploding. These days we toss around the phrase “a trillion dollars” as if it isn’t a big deal. But it is a big deal…
Read moreThe Last Country We “Liberated” from an “Evil” Dictator Is Now Openly Trading Slaves
While “violence, extortion and slave labor” have been a reality for people trafficked through Libya in the past, the slave trade has recently expanded. Today, people are selling other human beings out in the open.
Read moreAnalysis: Legislating, From Business Class to Coach
If you’re in favor, Texas lawmakers will meet with you and put your legislation on the fast track. Others have to wait, sometimes for weeks, for a chance to talk for a few minutes in a committee hearing room in the middle of the night.
Read moreHow Government Meddles in Your Easter Chocolate
Yes, to help cacao farmers, we should indeed buy more chocolate. But we should also recognize that those workers are locked out of a variety of related higher-wage industries by protectionist governments in the wealthy West.
Read moreLiberty and “Social” Justice for All Is Impossible
There is no way to square coercive “social justice” with “liberty and justice for all.”
Read moreHow About We Call It Quits? No More Forcing 320 Million People Into A Single Mold
For a long time it seemed as if the idea of secession was unlikely to take hold in modern America. And yet all it took was the election of Donald Trump for the alleged toxicity of secession to vanish entirely. The left’s principled opposition to secession and devotion to the holy Union went promptly out the window on November 8, 2016. Today, about one in three Californians polled favors the Golden State’s secession from the Union.
Read moreWho Was the Founding Father of the Fourth Amendment?
February 5 marks the birth of the American who had the greatest hand in what became the 4th Amendment’s prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures – James Otis. Unfortunately, “one of the most passionate and effective protectors of American rights” is too-little remembered today.
Read moreWhat Is the Executive Branch’s Authority Over Immigration According To The Constitution? [AUDIO]
Ever since Donald Trump issued his executive order that affects Muslim Immigrants from certain countries, there has been an uproar in the media. Many are asking where in the Constitution does the executive branch have the authority to make policy over immigration? But, the president’s “authority over immigration” is not as simple as saying article, section, clause. It’s a little bit more complicated than that. Constitutional Attorney and Speaker KrisAnne Hall explains the application of the constitution and the determination of what power, if any, the executive branch has over immigration.
Read moreMust We Pick a Side?
“At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare,” says Lord Acton, “and its triumphs have been due to minorities.” It is not easy in a hugely partisan political environment, but by maintaining your objectivity and principles in these times, you will be in the minority. But you will be a friend of freedom, and you could make all the difference.
Read moreFederal Paperwork Wastes Equivalent of 13,000 Lifetimes
An 80-year human lifespan is 29,200 days; that’s 700,800 hours. The Federal Government spent over 9 billion hours on paperwork alone.
Read moreHow the Founders Dealt with Fake News
The media response frames the fake news issue as nearly the single greatest threat to democracy in our time. But despite the worries that surround an uptick in fraudulent news, the phenomenon is nothing new, nor does it particularly portend dark times in America’s future. The truth is that while the American media landscape has been in a constant state of change over two centuries, the spread of hyper-partisan, scurrilous, and even phony news stories has been more common than uncommon throughout the history of the republic.
Read moreYou Can’t Have It Both Ways, Constitutional Limits and Unlimited Federal Power
The Unites States are either a union of sovereign political societies with a federal government exercising specific limited powers, or it is a national system with power all flowing from Washington D.C. You can’t have it both ways.
Read moreWhy Conservatives Can’t Understand Liberals (and Vice Versa) [VIDEO]
Why are liberals and conservatives seem like polar opposites? Psychologist Jonathan Haidt says many people today live in a ‘moral matrix’.
Read more5 Blood-Boiling Cases of Government Overreach [VIDEO]
It seems we can’t go a week without hearing a new story about someone being punished, with fines or even jail time, for activities that would be encouraged in a free society. Here are some of the more egregious examples of this trend for your reading pleasure (or displeasure).
Read moreJudicial Supremacy: How Did this Far-Fetched Claim Originate?
The supremacy of Supreme Court opinions in questions of constitutionality has evolved into an indisputable doctrine in the United States. Virtually nobody, particularly in the legal community, question the idea that the Court serves as the final decision maker when it comes to the Constitution. This view is nonsense.
Read moreKeep the Federal Courts Out of the Electoral College
“Unfortunately, in the wake of the 2016 election, opponents of the election’s outcome have been petitioning the Supreme Court to step in and take even more power away from the states in deciding how presidents are selected through the Electoral College. “
Read moreThese People Have a Dangerous Approach to the Constitution
The sad fact of the matter is that the majority of American’s attitude towards the Constitution is really. “I only like the Constitution when it favors things I support.” And, this attitude is a very dangerous approach to have.
Read moreTexas Bills Would Create Process to Review and Block Unconstitutional Federal Acts
During the 2017 session, the Texas legislature will consider bills creating a mechanism to review federal laws and end state cooperation with enforcement of those that violate the Texas Bill of Rights. This process would set the stage to effectively block some federal laws in the Lone Star State.
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