July 4, 2013

Celebrating the Declaration of Independence

On September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris officially ended the American Revolutionary War. Against all odds, the makeshift American militia, having endured 8 years of fighting, defeated the world's strongest military to bring independence to the Amer...

June 8, 2013

Redistributing Wealth: Stealing under the Guise of Law

There is an inherent injustice in the government's broad authority to tax and spend, which permits politicians to redistribute private property at will.  In many cases, such arbitrary power amounts to theft masqueraded as law, and it defies the ...

May 6, 2013

Unsustainable and Unconstitutional General Welfare Spending

According to deficit forecasts in President Barack Obama's latest budget, the national debt will surpass $20 trillion by 2016.  If this occurs (and it is almost certain to occur), then Obama will add more to the national debt during his presiden...

April 20, 2013

The Federal Income Tax Turns 100

Although the federal government had successfully operated without an income tax for 124 years under the Constitution, the American people in 1913 chose to ratify the Sixteenth Amendment, giving Congress the "power to lay and collect taxes on incomes,...