Fake News and the Founders
The Founders Anticipated ‘Fake News.’ Here’s What They Did About It. Jarrett Stepman / @JarrettStepman / December 30, 2016 Hyperpartisan, scurrilous, and even phony news stories have been more common than uncommon throughout [...]
Dem’s Attack Sen Sessions
Trump’s Pick for Attorney General Prosecuted These Civil Rights Cases Fred Lucas / @FredLucasWH / December 27, 2016 Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., waves to reporters after a Nov. 30 meeting in the Capitol [...]
Constitutional convention advocates look to capitalize on Republican gains
They doubt they can reach the finish line this year, but advocates pushing for a new constitutional convention convened by the states say 2017 could still be an important year [...]
Texas Governor Abbott’s Timing Ripe for COS
The 85th Texas legislative session is just around the corner. It begins on January 10, 2017 and priorities have already been set. A Convention of States is high on the [...]
States Hinder Healthcare
Health Care Landscape Ripe for Certificate-of-Need Law Reform Michael Hamilton Oct 03, 2016 Is a fruit farmer operating in a “free market” if he must pay for and obtain special [...]
Obama’s Legacy
Is the list long or short? by Mike Kapic When I first heard the young Senator, Obama speak, I was impressed by his oratory, rhetoric, and reasoned that this was [...]
The next step in restraining the federal beast
As President-elect Trump prepares to begin his presidency, it’s time to build a wall of a different kind than the one he has in mind. It’s time to build, or [...]
America’s Genesis: Locke
Appeal to Heaven John Locke used the Appeal to Heaven phrase in his work, Two Treatises of Government.: "What is my Remedy against a Robber, that so broke into my [...]
Progressives Must Confront Their Racist Roots
Virginia Postrel December 10, 2016 Until recently, Princeton University’s devotion to Woodrow Wilson was so pervasive and worshipful that visitors to campus might easily have mistaken the modernist parthenon housing the [...]
How America Came To Be
The Rise of European Liberalism Ralph Raico December 25, 2016 Classical liberalism — or simply liberalism, as it was called until around the turn of the century — is the [...]
Classical Liberalism
When Liberalism Went Into Retreat Ralph Raico Monday, December 26, 2016 As the nineteenth century began, classical liberalism — or just liberalism as the philosophy of freedom was then known [...]
A Regular Guy
I used to think I was just a regular guy, but . . . I was born white, which now, whether I like it or not, makes me a racist. [...]
Scott Walker says he would support Article V Convention to amend Constitution
PHOTO BY SAIYNA BASHIR "It's not an easy process, our founders intended that, so that only substantive changes that had the overwhelming support of the American people would go forward," [...]
Our Bill of Rights Birthday
Adopted December 15, 1791 when the Virginia legislature ratified it, making it a part of the Constitution. Virginia was final state to approve of the ¾ required by Article V. [...]
Three Housing Collapses, Fourth in the Wings
Government Intervention in Housing Has Always Been Bad. Here’s Why Today Is No Different. Claudia Sladick / Norbert Michel December 12, 2016 Government meddling in the housing market was a major [...]
The Insane World of Agriculture Subsides
by Dan Mitchell 12/13/16 I've argued before that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) should be the top target of those seeking to shut down useless and counterproductive parts of the [...]
Pentagon Covers Up Wasted Billions
Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste By Craig Whitlock and Bob Woodward December 5 The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations [...]
The Five People You Meet in Politics
by Morgan Dean November 27, 2016 The Five People You Meet in Heaven was written by Mitch Albom. It was published in 2003 and sold more than six million copies worldwide. It [...]
Feds War on Pets
Federal Agents Threaten Pet Owners With a War on Cats David Rosenthal / @DL_Rosenthal / November 30, 2016 The Fish and Wildlife Service implemented a pest management plan designed to [...]
Climate Brown Shirts
My Unhappy Life as a Climate Heretic My research was attacked by thought police in journalism, activist groups funded by billionaires and even the White House. Tropical storm Arthur off [...]
