It’s Never Happened Before!
But It’s Never Happened Before! by Vickie Deppe – January 2024 It’s the Article V opponent’s favorite scare tactic: “This has never happened before…we can’t possibly know what the delegates [...]
SS: Be Concerned
Social Insecurity: It’s Not Wrong to be Concerned about Facts By Karl Streitel - 02/07/2024 A December 19, 2023, article by Brett Arends on MarketWatch caught my eye with the oh-so-clickable title [...]
Your Interest Payment
Interest on national debt to become second largest government expenditure in '24: Watchdog says By Nicholas Ballasy – February 10, 2024 Interest on the U.S. national debt is on pace to become the [...]
Freedom
Born of Freedom By Rodney Dodsworth - April 11, 2016 Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was a great moral and political philosopher of the twentieth century who wrote and spoke extensively [...]
Texas vs. DC
IT'S BIDEN VS. TEXAS, AND TEXAS IS RIGHT. By Ryan McMaken – January 25, 2024 In what can only be a surprising move, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has openly defied the [...]
Our Debt Threat
THE BASELINE and SPENDING Over the past three years, Democrats have financed their radical agenda and vast expansion of the federal government with unprecedented levels of spending, adding $6.4 trillion to [...]
EV Revolution Retreating
President Macron is an especially enthusiastic backer of EVs, and has dramatically increased the French state’s share in Renault - Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images Europe The West’s humiliating [...]
Powers Defined – Pt. II
The Few Powers Defined – Pt. II A Tabulation of the “Few and Defined” Powers Delegated to Congress as of 1791 By Ken Ivory - 2011 [Editor: This is [...]
Constitution’s Line? Pt. I
Where's The Line, America? Part I How States Protect The Constitution By Ken Ivory – 2011 [The following are excerpts from Utah Representative Ken Ivory’s book, Where's The Line, on [...]
Corrupt Election Process
Thoughts on Our Corrupted Presidential Election Process By Rodney Dodsworth - April 10, 2016 Did the Framers actually bequeath the circa 2016 Animal House presidential election process? Nothing occupied the Federal Convention [...]
Resource Library
Reading Suggestions, in no particular order, cover a spectrum of themes from history, cause & effect, unintended consequences, humanity, to solutions and failures. February 15, 2024 (>> specifically Article V [...]
Sue Congress?
Why Sue Congress? Why We the People and our States Should Sue Congress! By David Biddulph – November 3, 2023 Congress appears to have, since 1908, unconstitutionally blocked the states [...]
American Voting
Voting Rights in America By NCCS - February 2, 2024 Voting is a fundamental pillar of democracy in America. Over time, it has served as a barometer, indicating how well [...]
States Must Lead
States must lead where Congress fails By Paul Renner – February 5, 2024 Despite some stellar leaders from Florida, it’s clear that Congress is incapable of exercising fiscal responsibility. Worse, [...]
Gov Balloons U.S. Debt
US Debt-to-GDP Ratio Worsens Further, Despite Solid Economic Growth, as Government Debt Balloons at a Scary Pace The economy grew solidly. The debt spiked By Wolf Richter - February 1, 2024 [...]
The Original Constitution
Restore the Federal Constitution By Rodney Dodsworth - April 9, 2016 A common remedy among conservatives for the ills of our nation is to just enforce the constitution we have. [...]
Drug Price Hike
Drug makers Hike Prices on Hundreds of Brand-Name Drugs Starting Thursday, the government will begin negotiations on 10 drugs covered by Medicare this week. But those new prices won’t go [...]
Two Americas
The REAL Story Of The Two Americas By Stephen Moore - January 30, 2024 For the past 30 years or so, the Left has invented a narrative that there are [...]
A Failed Recycling
How America’s Recycling Program Failed—and Scarred the Environment Like many problems in American history, recycling began as a moral panic. By Jon Miltimore - May 31, 2022 In March 2019, The [...]
Republic’s Threat
No Interest in Democracy By Bruce Bialosky - January 24, 2024 Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Prickly Pear Editors’ Note: Same message as yesterday – The administrative (deep) state of the Executive branch is the [...]