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 [...]
COS Digest
A digest look at COS Rev: 5/7/16 Forward: [...]
Perception vs. Reality
By Gary L. Bauer July 25, 2016 A big debate erupted in the media over the weekend. Many talking heads feel our political discourse is "too dark." They say the [...]
Have We Become a Nation of Servants?
Barry Brownstein July 25, 2016 Imagine you have been asked to watch a video of two teams passing a basketball and count the number of passes made by one of [...]
Democrats Agree to Build a Wall
07/25/2016 Source: AAN The Democrats have finally come around to the notion that secure borders keep us safe. Sort of... To the Democratic National Committee elites, keeping average Americans away from their convention [...]
Freedom or Slavery–how will you vote?
By Leesa Williams 7/24/16 I think you would agree with me, that our country has changed. To hear the Replublicans balking, everything is falling apart and if you listen to [...]
Nothing to Fear In Article V
The Convention of States Project has made huge inroads into educating Americans about what the FOUNDERS themselves put into our Constitution as a remedy to an overreaching federal government, who [...]
GOP Platform: It’s Time to Get Rid of the EPA
By Michael Bastasch, July 19, 2016 The Republican Party’s 2016 platform proposes getting rid of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a massive regulatory body and turning it into an [...]
