What Is Originalism?
By: Rob Natelson When President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, it was widely claimed he was appointing “originalists.” What is an originalist? Although originalists ...
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Lesson from the Government Shutdown
By: Mike Maharrey We are now more than a month into the government shutdown. Don’t worry. I’m doing fine. In fact, I’m living life pretty much just like I did ...
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The Inalienable Right To Life
by KrisAnne Hall, JD It seems to be growing increasingly popular to use the 10th Amendment to justify carte blanche legislative authority within the States. Even some Presidential candidates have ...
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Feds Spying on Rest Areas Creating a Multi-State Bathroom Surveillance Program
DOT’s and police are now spying on rest areas in real-time 24/7. According to an article in the Star Tribune, transportation departments in eight states have installed cameras and sensors in rest ...
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A New Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare could Still Stand
By: Harold Pease Mid December 2018, Judge Reed O’Connor, a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Texas ruled that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act last year ending ...
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The Danger To America is Not Socialism, Do You Know This Villain?
By KrisAnne Hall, JD Samuel Adams gave this warning in 1775: “For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when Knowledge is diffusd and ...
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Dickinson, “Penman of the Revolution,” on Freedom of the Press
by David F. Forte On October 17, 1774, John Dickinson entered Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia and took his place as a delegate from Pennsylvania at the First Continental Congress. The ...
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More than Victims
William Cooper Nell was the publisher of Frederick Douglass’s abolitionist newspaper the North Star. His work The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution was previously used as a textbook as ...
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The Law
The Law is Frédéric Bastiat's timeless defense of the free society. With his characteristically clear writing, Bastiat lays out the formula for the proper role of the state in a free ...
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Government Thrives by Keeping People Blind to Its True Costs
by Gary M. Galles Ever wonder why people put blinders on horses? As prey animals, horses have eyes on the sides of their heads to increase their ability to detect ...
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