Article V Updates
Five Constitutional Amendment Efforts to Watch in 2020 – by Stuart MacPhail January 2020 As 2020 state legislative sessions are ready to start, five efforts are underway to bring about [...]
Preventable CA Fires
WSJ October 26, 2019 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Stakeholder Capitalism and No Electricity Does anyone see the irony in Sacramento promoting the purchase of electric vehicles through tax subsidies and [...]
SCOTUS-Getting it Right. Sometimes.
Gerrymandering and School Busing – No Justiciable Standard Rodney Dodsworth - December 23, 2019 Few take more delight in hammering Scotus than yours truly. Being supposedly apolitical, it is often anything [...]
The “Invisible Hand” Doing Good
How Adam Smith Showed We Can Do Good By Doing Well Doing good while doing well proposition does not describe government officials’ actions. T. Norman Van Cott - December 23, [...]
Why America’s Founders Didn’t Want a Democracy
In his book "Liberty in Peril," Randall Holcombe challenges the presumption that liberty and democracy are complementary. Gary M. Galles - December 17, 2019 When I took history and government [...]
America’s Creed?
WSJ November 30, 2019 Does America Still Have a Common Creed? The U.S. has an unmatched capacity for absorbing newcomers. Yet historian David M. Kennedy worries that the country no [...]
The Court’s Inconsistency
Scotus, Abortion, and the Common Defense by Rodney Dodsworth | December 16, 2019 In 1918, Scotus settled the issue of WWI conscription v. the 13th Amendment’s ban on involuntary servitude. [...]
Time Magazine: Capitalism Response
My Response to Time Magazine’s Cover Story on Capitalism The case for true capitalism is a moral one that’s rooted in human nature and human rights. Lawrence W. Reed - [...]
The Sirens’ Song of the 17th Amendment
Conclusions of Jay S. Bybee – Ulysses at the Mast. Rodney Dodsworth - December 2, 2019 Bybee’s 1997 work was my first scholarly exposure to the 17th Amendment. At the [...]
Your Kids & Cultural Leftism
4 Ways To Help Your Kids Fight Assimilation Into Cultural Leftism Equipping our kids might mean talking to them about difficult and uncomfortable subjects long before we’d like to. But [...]
Driven to My Knees!
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Thank you, Father
Thank you, Father for sending your Son to save mankind. Thank you Mary and Joseph for raising the Son of God to manhood. And thank you Jesus for giving up [...]
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 [...]
