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How Thomas Jefferson Handled the National Debt

By: Mike Maharrey The way Pres. Thomas Jefferson handled the national debt should be a blueprint for all modern presidents. When Donald Trump took office in January 2017, he inherited ...

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Trashing the 12th Amendment with the National Popular Vote

By Publius Huldah The compact for a National Popular Vote (NPV) is a destructive scheme. Yet it’s been approved by several States; and is pending in others. Since the text ...

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The Birth of Confidence: The New Constitution

By: Jackson Pemberton On March 4, 2019, we commemorate the inauguration of the most transcendent legal document ever written: the Constitution of the United States of America. The thirteen colonies ...

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The Destructive Legacy of McCulloch v. Maryland

by Nelson Lund McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) is probably the Supreme Court’s single most influential case. Its importance arises largely from its doctrine of implied congressional powers, which has been ...

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The Age of Tyrannical Surveillance

By: John Whitehead “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about… Your digital identity will live forever… because there’s ...

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The Supreme Court Will Not Save Us

February 27, 2019 Bureaucracy / Constitution / Overreach / SCOTUS 0

by Corbin Barthold In the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers complained that George III had “erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our ...

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Shall We Defend Our Common History?

February 26, 2019 Censorship / Constitution / History 0

Roger Kimball The recent news that the University of Notre Dame, responding to complaints by some students, would “shroud” its twelve 134-year-old murals depicting Christopher Columbus was disappointing. It was ...

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Gun Grabbers Admit Feds Can’t Enforce Laws Without State and Local Support

By: Mike Maharrey The federal government needs state and local support to enforce gun laws and the anti-gun lobby knows it. On February 12, around 450 supporters of the Missouri chapter ...

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A Look Back…. States Rights in the Pollution Debate

by Greg Heller Does the “liberal” Obama respect the Constitution more than the “conservative” Bush?  From the After months of battling with the Bush administration, California may be close to ...

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Plunder: An American Way of Life

February 19, 2019 Constitution / Legislature / Plunder 0

By: Walter E. Williams Frederic Bastiat, a French economist and member of the French National Assembly, lived from 1801 to 1850. He had great admiration for our country, except for ...

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