Thomas Paine: Fear, Government Power and Standing Armies
By: Mike Maharrey From the earliest days of the republic, politicians have used fear to expand government power. This was the strategy the Federalist Party used to get a standing army. ...
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Constitutional Genealogy: The New England Confederation of 1643
By: Mike Maharrey The foundational ideas underlying the Constitution took root long before the founders drafted the document. In fact, they began to take root in the earliest days of American ...
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Weaponizing the Bureaucracy: Who Will Protect Us from the Government’s Standing Army?
By: John Whitehead “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.” -James Madison The IRS has stockpiled 4,500 guns and five ...
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Biden Administration Continues Aggressive Enforcement of Federal Gun Control
By: Mike Maharrey In 2021, the Biden administration continued a trend of aggressive federal gun control enforcement, with numbers at or near record levels. But this isn’t something limited to Joe ...
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Public School Parents Are Voting With Their Feet
by LEWIS MORRIS In the post-COVID era, parents are increasingly taking their kids out of the school systems that damaged them. It will take many years to understand the scope ...
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Patrick Henry Warns of a “Great and Mighty Empire”
By: TJ Martinell On June 5, 1788, Patrick Henry gave a speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention warning that “consolidation” – centralizing of power – would turn the United States into a dangerous ...
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The Federal Government is too Big; George Mason Warned Us
By: Mike Maharrey Many antifederalists warned us about the dangers of centralized power. And George Mason was one of the most prominent. They called this centralization of power in the general ...
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Let’s Declare the Pandemic Over and Peacefully Coexist With COVID—Here’s How
BY DR. YUHONG DONG AND MERCURA WANG The COVID-19 pandemic has lasted for more than two and a half years. With SARS-CoV-2’s constant mutations, neither COVID-19 vaccines nor previous infections are able to ...
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The Loathing of Madison—And America
by Colleen Sheehan “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) is all the rage on university and college campuses across America. It has spread to corporate America, especially Big Tech, and is ...
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Resistance is Crucial to the Advancement of Liberty
By: Mike Maharrey Patrick Henry told us that “government is no more than a choice among evils.” Thomas Paine held the same view. In Common Sense, he wrote, “Society in every state ...
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