Where Has Supply-Side Gone?
What happened to the GOP’s pro-market ‘supply-siders’ and free trade? By James Pethokoukis, August 10, 2016 One of the strangers aspects of this strange election season has been prominent Republican [...]
Overturning Citizens United: How?
A constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United: Really? How? by Peter J. Wallison August 9, 2016 AEI: Politics and Public Opinion One jarring note in Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech at the Democratic [...]
Treasury Collected $20 Trillion in Taxes
U.S. Treasury Collected Nearly $20 Trillion in Taxes During Obama’s Administration And incurred almost half that number in debt. 8.10.2016 Trey Sanchez Barack Obama has been president for 90 months and [...]
Historical Ignorance
The real historical significance of the war between the states. by Walter Williams, July 14, 2015 Walter Williams The victors of war write its history in order to cast themselves [...]
Real Heroes: Richard Cobden
[Editor: Not American history but a good history lesson none the less] by Lawrence W. Reed, founder of FEE (Foundation for Economic Education) March 18, 2016 Each week, Mr. Reed [...]
The First Congress
Book Review by Mark G. Spencer Calling the House to Order A bill of rights was the No. 1 priority of the first Congress. But no one thought they were [...]
What is the American Form of Government
By Stephen Palmer May 18, 2008 The common belief — which is grossly incorrect — is that the American form of government is a democracy. Our founders were clear [...]
James Hill, Railroad Man
One of the Greatest Entrepreneurs in American History James J. Hill Transformed the American Northwest Daniel Oliver, Lawrence W. Reed, May 27, 2016 One hundred years ago this weekend, James [...]
Big business & cronyism
A Very Depressing Chart on Creeping Cronyism in the American Economy by Dan Mitchell 7/22/16 Last year, I shared the most depressing PowerPoint slide in Danish history. Back in 2011, I wrote about a depressing picture [...]
EPA May be Accountable
Finally, EPA May Be Held Accountable for Potential Wrongdoing at the Gold Mine King Spill John-Michael Seibler / @JSeibler / August 05, 2016 John-Michael Seibler is a visiting legal fellow [...]
New Executive Rules every three days
Obama breaks regulatory record, imposes new rule every three days Posted by Convention of States Project on August 09, 2016 The federal government has imposed a new major regulation every [...]
Old Lies
By Thomas Sowell, 8/9/16 We expect to hear a lot of lies during an election year, and this year is certainly no exception. What is surprising is how old some [...]
Saturday Q&A: The outlook for constitutional reform
Robert Natelson is a scholar in constitutional jurisprudence at The Heartland Institute — an Illinois public policy think tank — and a constitutional expert whose research has been cited by [...]
Elon Musk’s businesses supported by taxpayer financing
GREEN CRONYISM ‘Quintessential Insider Deal’: Taxpayers Finance Family Ties of 2 Failing Green Companies Posted Friday, July 22, 2016 From – The Daily Signal – by Kevin Mooney Grassroots conservative activists who run [...]
FDA Approved Medicines Hidden
The Dirty Little Secret Pot Pushers Don’t Want You to Know About Cully Stimson / @cullystimson / Alexandra Seymour / August 04, 2016 / Many marijuana substitute drugs have been [...]
Proof Our Government is Corrupt
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GOA) revealed what gun owners have always feared: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has been illegally keeping data on firearms [...]
Residents learn about grassroots effort to create a ‘Convention of the states’
Attendee at the meet and greet studies literature on the process for calling a convention of states. What do the people do if the political classes ignore their concerns? Usually [...]
How Viennese Culture Shaped Austrian Economics
Schools of thought are frequently named after their country or place of origin. The Chicago School, the Frankfurt School, and the Scottish Enlightenment are just some of the many examples. [...]
Our Republican Constitution
In the first dozen years of America’s life, we were a democracy governed by the Articles of Confederation. That would change on March 4, 1789 when America would officially begin [...]
RESTORING THE RULE OF LAW
With the States Leading the Way By Governor Greg Abbott Jan 8, 2016 [Editors note: this is an executive summary from Governor Abbott’s 91-page thesis on America returning to the [...]
