What Can Be Done (Part 2): States' Rights Under the Constitution and Court Precedent Part 1 of this series discussed the unlikelihood of addressing the current crisis through electoral means at the federal level. Instead, we need to turn to one of the fundamental concepts of the Founding Fathers: federalism. The United States was formed as a union ...

If your alarm bells are not ringing loudly, they should be. Plenty of reliable new media sources are talking about how bad things are and the risks of them getting much worse. The wildcards of international conflict, economic collapse and political crisis (or all three together) are all very real. We have plenty to say about the state of the Union,...

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." ― Margaret Thatcher Two decades after Hugo Chavez vowed to lift up the poor and promised a better future for all, Venezuela's once prosperous economy is in shambles, citizens pick through garbage looking for scraps of food, vital medicines are in short supply and m...

The principles of individual liberty and of representative, constitutional government are at risk in today's America.   Thomas Paine wrote the first of his series of pamphlets later published as The American Crisis in December, 1776 when the morale of American revolutionaries was at its lowest point – the Continental Army driven from New York ...

The exact language of the Tenth Amendment bears repeating: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Our federal congressmen and senators are often referred to as leaders, and this is a mistake. They are representatives of their...

Most of us are familiar with one of the common definitions of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. By that definition alone, wannabe socialists can be certified insane as they try to replicate what has been done in country after country only to fail resoundingly. Residents of Florida are not building make...

Term Limits? Flat of Fair Tax? Voter ID? Defund National Public Radio? Balanced Budget? Abolish the National Firearms Act? Get rid of the Fed? Legalize drugs? Decimate the IRS?   If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.Modern Proverb with origins in World War Two Now more than ever each of us needs to know what matters, wher...