Congress Do Your Job!
Congress: Do Your Job and Restrain SCOTUS [Editor: This is just as appropriate today as it was three-plus years ago.] By WILLIAM J. WATKINS JR. - August 12, 2016 Has the Supreme Court elevated itself to [...]
Why Utah?
WSJ December 7, 2019 Why Utah Has Become America’s Economic Star From taxes to education to the business climate, the Beehive State has its house in order. By Stephen Moore [...]
The Night Watchman
A metaphor for our government. Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said someone may steal from it at [...]
1989 Wasn’t the End of History After All
WSJ November 9, 2019 Liberal democracy in Eastern Europe is facing a new wave of authoritarian challengers. By Yascha Mounk | 1057 words My earliest political memory is of watching [...]
California’s Dark Age
A New Dark Age: California’s Blackouts Are Self-Inflicted Jarrett Stepman - October 13, 2019 California, the richest state in the nation—and one that’s often portrayed as the progressive harbinger of the future [...]
Is the 28th Amendment Close?
Will the ERA Become the 28th Amendment? – by Stuart MacPhail - December, 2019 On Nov. 6 The New York Times carried a story headlined “The Equal Rights Amendment May Pass Now. It’s [...]
Machiavelli & the Deep State
Machiavelli on the Deep State Conspiracy President or Plotter? by Rodney Dodsworth - October 14, 2019 In our Constitutional order we find comforts unknown to many nations. We can go [...]
Happy Birthday Bill of Rights!
This Day (yesterday) in History: Happy Bill of Rights Day! Tara Ross - Dec 15, 2018 On this day in 1791, Virginia ratifies the Bill of Rights, making those ten [...]
Bureaucratic Authority & Independence
WSJ November 23, 2019 Notable & Quotable: Agencies ‘Aggressively straying from our mission . . . provides potentially potent ammunition’ for critics. 123 words From a Nov. 14 speech by [...]
AG Barr’s Speech
Why the Left Went Berserk After William Barr’s Notre Dame Speech GianCarlo Canaparo / Kaitlynn Samalis-Aldrich / November 25, 2019 Nothing proved Attorney General William Barr's point quite as well as the barrage of [...]
Returning States Power
Forbes Writer: Restore Power to the States… NOW – By Stuart MacPhail December, 2019 On Nov. 7 Forbes carried an excellent article by Tom Lindsay entitled “Resistance On The Right: Will Conservatives [...]
ERA-Congress Ignores Our Constitution
Removing the ERA Deadline is an Ultimate Congressional Power Grab November 14, 2019 While lawmakers fought in Longworth, one of the three House office buildings, about impeachment another contentious piece of [...]
Historians Rebuke ‘1619 Project’
But the New York Times's revisionist history is being used in American classrooms. Lewis Morris · Dec. 3, 2019 Leftists have long relied on misinformation and propaganda to advance their agenda. [...]
US in Moral Decline
In 1798, John Adams, a leading Founding Father and our second president, said: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the [...]
Three Good Reads
Three Especially Good Reads on Federalism & Citizenship by Stuart MacPhail - November, 2019 “Is Congress Valid?” is a new paper written by former Utah State Representative Ken Ivory and published [...]
Capitalism Helps Protect the Environment
Breathe Free As a country prospers, its citizens are better able to care for the environment and reduce pollutants emitted from industrial growth. Nicolas Loris / October 22, 2019 A recent [...]
Three Failed Attempts at Socialism
These 3 Countries Tried Socialism. Here’s What Happened. Lee Edwards / October 16, 2019 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher observed, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other [...]
Phoenix COS Update
Phoenix Correspondence Commission Meets, Adopts Charter by Stuart MacPhail, November, 2019 During September 2017, 72 delegates representing 19 states (plus 4 states with official observers) met in Phoenix, called by [...]
Voter Fraud: Project Veritas
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Free Market Health Care?
Why Not Try Free Market Health Care? John C. Goodman October 17, 2019 I’m often asked if the free market can work in health care. My quick answer is: that’s the [...]