April 9, 2019

How Chicago Democrats Created Trump's Border Wall Problem

President Trump's initiative to build a border wall on the southern border of the U.S. is meeting with an extraordinary amount of resistance from the Democratic Party.   The Democrats have gathered their forces and are exerting an ...

October 3, 2018

Mike Madigan's Personal Tyranny

Several facts in recent American political history prove that Illinois is the crucible of the DNC’s efforts to deprive voters of constitutionally guaranteed voting rights.  The Constitution lists 18 functions of federal government which Co...

July 30, 2018

How Mitch McConnell Stole the 2016 Congressional Elections

On November 8, 2016, the nation was gripped by the suspense of whether the outsider Donald J. Trump or the favorite Hillary Clinton would win the White House.  At the same time, voters chose their states' congressional representatives, ...

July 27, 2018

The Blue-State Housing Bubble

Another housing bubble is beginning to burst.  Its financial characteristics are different from the 2007-8 housing bubble but it shares one thing in common -- that it is caused by government policies. The 2007 bubble was caused by the Federal...

July 21, 2018

Illinois Pioneers Election Manipulation at the State Legislative Level

Chicago has long been nationally famous for manipulating election results.  Its reputation for registering voters with a cemetery address, registering the homeless, and allowing people to vote more than once is legendary.  What is...

July 14, 2018

The Supreme Court, Congress, and Rights

In recent decades, one of the complaints about Supreme Court rulings is that the Court has chosen to find “rights” where the right is not explicitly stated in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution.  The Supreme Court, as the highest...

June 12, 2018

Class Conflict on Campus

For many college students, their college years, which they hoped would be the door to financial success and a dream career, have become a dark nightmare of escalating debt.  Not as many doors are opening for them as they once imagined. The unemp...

March 29, 2018

Russians, Identity Theft, and Campaign Interference

The grand jury indictment announced by the Justice Department on February 12, 2018 alleged that 13 Russian nationals acted to interfere with the U.S. political process.  The program had the code name "Laktha" and began in 201...

March 25, 2018

What Trump and Martin Luther King, Jr. Have in Common

As the story unfolds of how Hillary Clinton, former FBI director Comey, and the intel community in Washington trashed GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump with what is being seen as a fraudulent dossier, paid for by the Hillary campaign, and prese...

March 19, 2018

Oakland's Libby Schaaf Shows How Democrats Control Minorities

The Democratic Party of the U.S. has always had an attitude of using and exploiting minority rights.  Democrats feel that it is their party's right to control the minority populations of the U.S.  And Oakland's Mayor Libby...

March 16, 2018

Should Voters Be Required to Understand English?

After the Civil War, four million people of African-American descent became free residents of the U.S.  Since they were born in the U.S., they were citizens and were allowed to vote in local, state, and federal elections. But those who h...

February 26, 2018

The Politics of San Francisco's Homelessness Problem

About a year ago, in January 2017, Leilani Farha visited the city of San Francisco and was appalled at the extent of the substandard housing conditions suffered by San Francisco's homeless population.  Leilani works for the United Nations as...

January 22, 2018

Pot Politics: How Democrats Politicize the Recreational Marijuana Issue to Win Midterm Elections

One of the reasons the Democrats lost the November 2016 election was low voter turnout.  As the 2018 midterms approach, Democrats have politicized the recreational marijuana issue as a means of increasing voter turnout, knowing that many in...

November 14, 2017

American Consumers Must Have the Right to Control Access to Their Credit Information

While the Internet has made shopping, bill paying, and financial transactions much more convenient for American consumers, at the same time the Internet has been used for identity theft: consumers find that their personal information can be accessed ...

September 6, 2017

DACA Was Only One Part of Obama's Seizure of Congressional Power

The DACA program being terminated by AG Sessions was a Federal program started by President Obama. The program was promoted as an administrative strategy to provide eligible youth relief from deportation.  Since the entire issue has been clouded...

September 4, 2017

How President Obama Shrank America’s Consumer Dollar

President Obama’s great stimulus spending and QE programs saw disposable income of average Americans reverse historic trends and stagnate or  actually decline.  There has been a huge increase in the taxes they have to pay for everythi...

August 30, 2017

The Democrats' War on First Responder Services

Even as Hurricane Harvey once again demonstrates the essential nature of public safety agencies, few Americans know that the Democrat political machine has been systematically robbing local police, fire and health care services throughout the nation ...

June 7, 2017

How Democrats Permanently Stole Your Vote

Every election cycle we hear about how every vote must count, how every voter must have equal access to the ballot box, and how no one can be denied the opportunity to express their voice to how the government is run. This concern has been seized upo...

April 5, 2017

Replay: Identical Tactics used Against Dr. Martin Luther King and Donald Trump

As President Trump won the 2016 Republican nomination and then the national election, Democrats accused him of colluding with the Russian government to steal the election. While some voters may see this as a startling revelation proving that Trump...

April 5, 2017

Debt, Entitlements, and the Consent of the Governed

Everyone is familiar with the traditional connections of money to government. These include granting contracts to persons who make substantial campaign donations, funding entitlements to voter identity groups, and many other abuses.  But the...

February 24, 2017

Chicago Sheriff Openly Defies Federal Immigration Order

The same day that DHS issued its new guidelines regarding Immigration law enforcement, Tom Dart, the Sheriff of Cook County, IL; home of the City of Chicago, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the nation’s first Mayoral Sanctuary Policy, stated ...

February 8, 2017

Immigration Rulings Continue Democrats’ Strategy to Collect Votes

On Jan. 27, 2017 President Trump issued an executive order called, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.”  This executive order immediately provoked a nationwide, highly organized prote...

January 18, 2017

How Illinois Violates Voting RIghts

The 1964 Voting Rights Act and revisions addressed the right of the individual citizen in the U.S. to vote without obstruction or discrimination. The concept of one person one vote has been repeatedly upheld. While Illinois became infamous for having...

January 9, 2017

A New Voting Rights Act for the 21st Century

In 1963, Evron M. Kirkpatrick, a member of the President's Commission on Registration and Voter Participation, brilliantly summarized the importance of voting to a democracy: A democratic system rests ultimately on the belief that each man i...

January 4, 2017

Women’s Issues in the Trump Era

The women’s movement of the 1960s is, like other liberal Democrat initiatives: tired, failing, and out of touch with the day to day lives of American women of all races.  Today’s women don’t need anyone to focus only on college...

December 31, 2016

How Liberal Democrats Institutionalized White Supremacy

The election of Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States, was seen as a landmark achievement for a nation that once dehumanized blacks and held them as slaves. The expectation was that President Obama would lift up the socioeconom...

December 5, 2016

A fire in Oakland

Over 30 people died this weekend in the fire at that Oakland "artist's colony."  People were living in a warehouse in violation of law.  Vast amounts of current were being run through a substandard electrical system.  Whe...

November 27, 2016

Hey libs: What if whiteness is a disability?

According to liberals white people have a huge number of flaws: they are imperialistic, greedy, oppressive, sexist, racist… every negative "ist" there is. But are white people doing this on purpose? Or is oppressive whiteness...

November 16, 2016

How Trump Can Defeat the Establishment Bureaucracy

Donald Trump has already distinguished himself as the first elected president of modern times to have had no previous political experience or close connections to the political establishment. His own party, the Republican Party, had many party diehar...

November 16, 2016

Deciphering the message of the anti-Trump protesters

At the time of this writing, anti-Trump protesters have been protesting the election of Donald Trump for six straight days. These protesters should be asked to explain what they are protesting.  If they are expressing their personal dislike o...

November 3, 2016

Censoring Language as Offensive Violates the Constitution

The concept that language and actions should be censored or banned outright by public schools and public spaces because some persons may be offended violates the U.S. Constitution in many ways. One, the most obvious one, is that it allows a tiny g...

October 22, 2016

Why Hispanics Shouldn’t Vote for Hillary

While polls show that more Hispanics prefer Hillary over Trump to occupy the White House those Hispanics need to take a close look at what Hillary’s party has done for -- and more importantly, to -- Hispanics in the U.S. The Hispanic populat...

October 20, 2016

How Liberals Use Instigation against Trump

In the past week, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has been chastised by the media for being obsessed with the accusations of sexual impropriety alleged by several women. There are several issues here.  One is that these women are all ...

October 18, 2016

Why Hillary and Her Wall Street Donors Don’t Want Trump’s Wall

When GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump first talked about building a “big, beautiful wall” at the southern border of the U.S. he was met with fierce resistance. Given the facts that the southern border is the main route used by drug...

October 13, 2016

House Speaker Ryan’s Bizarre Trump Strategy

House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he is no longer going to enthusiastically support Donald Trump as his Party’s presidential candidate. This is in reaction to the audio recording of Donald Trump making lewd comments about women. Apparen...

September 19, 2016

How Bill Clinton Sent Manufacturing Jobs to China

On May 28, 1993 Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 12850. This improper EO changed the way the U.S. made trade deals with China and led to the loss of tens of millions of American manufacturing jobs. The story of how this was done not only prov...

September 2, 2016

What Women Voters Need to Know About Hillary and Huma Abedin

A few days ago it was revealed that Anthony D. Weiner of New York was sexting a woman on Twitter.  In 2011 he had to resign from Congress after it was proven that he was sending lewd photos of himself to women on the internet.  This creepy ...

August 24, 2016

The Symbiotic Relationship between Liberal Democrats and Hollywood

There is a mutually supportive relationship between Hollywood elites and the Democrat Party of the U.S. It is interesting to explore this relationship, how it benefits both, and why it continues. Every election cycle, candidates for the Democrat Part...

August 5, 2016

Nullifying the Will of the People

There are two fundamental facts about governments. One is that they occupy a territory; their power to influence has physical boundaries. From the earliest days of tribal associations geographical space has been used to secure and administer the powe...

August 2, 2016

Trump’s Leadership Style in Alinskyan Perspective

Donald Trump has been characterized as inconsistent, dangerous, rude, insulting, disrespectful and many other unflattering terms. It’s safe to say these characterizations are intended to portray him as someone not fit for national office, unsui...

July 22, 2016

What Hillary Won’t Do as President

Hillary Clinton’s status as the presidential candidate of her party is totally due to the national party organization. Unlike Donald Trump, who earned the votes of 14 million primary voters without any help from his party, Hillary is totally de...

July 13, 2016

Chicago’s Collapse Has Begun

The city of Detroit, now famous as an economic disaster, began its decline when it lost jobs. This was accompanied by a loss of population, a rapid rise in poverty, increasing dependence upon federal entitlement programs and an unstoppable downw...

July 11, 2016

President Obama’s Potential Felonies

In the recent terrorist attack in Orlando, the US Dept. of Justice ordered the Orlando Police Dept. to scrub, or delete, references to terrorism from the records they had of phone calls with the shooter Omar Mateen.  This is clearly proof of an ...

July 4, 2016

Hillary’s server in WikiLeaks perspective

There are many interesting, if unsettling, similarities and differences between Hillary Clinton’s intentional use of a private, unauthorized email server to store her email communications while secretary of state and Julian Assange’s...

June 28, 2016

How Trump's Border Wall Will Rescue Illegal Immigrants from Democrat Exploitation

Trump’s proposal to build a big wall on the southern border of the U.S. has been called an exercise of xenophobia and racism. Trump asserts that many of the illegal immigrants are criminals, and the U.S. should act to save the country from t...

June 26, 2016

How and Why Government Forces You to Finance Illegal Immigration

As the Supreme Court rejects President Obama’s efforts to issue unconstitutional executive orders with regard to immigration law enforcement, the real issue for American voters is who pays for the benefits illegal immigrants receive. It’s...

June 14, 2016

The Emerging Issue of Citizenship Justice

It’s very interesting to note that liberal Democrats are obsessed with justice. They talk about racial justice, economic justice, and environmental justice. Every issue is framed as a matter of justice. This means that these groups are entitled...

June 4, 2016

How Bernie Sanders's Socialism Funds Massive Income Inequality

The next time Bernie Sanders does a sit-down interview with a major news anchor, he should be asked one simple question: why don’t you ever mention the huge one-percenter salaries and pensions given to government bureaucrats who administer soci...

June 2, 2016

Bill Clinton Profits from World’s Largest For-Profit University

As accusations swirl around Donald Trump for the complaints filed against Trump University, few people know about how Bill Clinton was hired in 2010 to be Chancellor for the Laureate Network, the world’s largest for-profit university network. ...

June 1, 2016

Hillary’s Potential Email Felonies

While Hillary Clinton likes to appear unconcerned about her email scandal, her actions have the potential to invite serious Federal issues. For example, when Hillary accepted donations to her Foundation she may have violated Title 18 § 201. S...

April 26, 2016

The Federal Debt Violates the Constitution

President Obama has doubled the national debt and added an additional $4.2 trillion to debt through the Quantitative Easing program. Both of these actions are unprecedented. The issue that needs to be discussed is the extent to which Federal debt, at...

April 11, 2016

The Least Favored Candidates Are Now the Most Favored

Analysts of the 2016 presidential process seem stunned that the top candidates in both parties, Hillary and Trump, have such high disapproval ratings. Today Trump has an unfavorable rating of 68% and Hillary Clinton 55%. These analysts may have faile...

March 30, 2016

Citizens United Didn’t Address Public Sector Money in Politics

In 2010 the Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that corporate campaign financing is a protected form of free speech, and that corporations and unions could actively advocate for or against specific candidates. However, that ruling did no...

March 23, 2016

The Rise of America's Liberalist Class

Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital to describe how a new class of powerful, wealthy people had emerged in England during the industrial revolution. They did not need to inherit large tracts of land, or have the power to force serfs to pay annual tithes in o...

March 18, 2016

How Social Media Nullified Citizens United

When the Supreme Court ruled in the 2010 Citizens United case that political action committees -- as well as unions -- could be organized and spend unlimited amounts of money to advocate for a particular policy or political candidate, it was widely b...

March 13, 2016

College students should think twice before the next Trump rally protest

The organized protest at the March 11 Trump campaign rally was designed and organized to help Hillary Clinton defeat Donald Trump in several ways.  It also exposed the tactics of progressive liberalism: progressives feel threatened by Trump, and...

March 11, 2016

Public Sector Unions Re-establish Involuntary Servitude

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said in the 1930s that allowing government workers to unionize would be a bad idea. That it would institutionalize their influence over elections and public policy.  That FDR was right is shown by the fact tha...

March 2, 2016

The Myth of Big Business and Immigrant Labor

The idea that big business promotes illegal immigration so it can profit from cheap labor has been widely disseminated by the popular news media. That this is a myth, and is not founded in solid economic or political reality, is easy to show.  ...

February 22, 2016

Trump Reflects Changes in American Culture

Critics of Donald Trump love to state that he is a clown, his campaign speeches are reminiscent of a carnival sideshow, his language is too outrageous, he tends to argue too much, and he fights back when attacked.  He does not practice the sort ...

February 19, 2016

How Public Pension Contracts Violate the U.S. Constitution

Public sector pension contracts have started to bankrupt communities and threaten the economic viability of states such as Illinois. Taxpayers are entitled to a conversation as to whether or not these contracts violate the U.S. Constitution.  ...

February 18, 2016

Apple’s issue with iPhone encryption

A federal judge has ordered Apple Computer Corp. to help the FBI decode the information on an Apple iPhone seized from a terrorist.  Apple’s Tim Cook has stated his reluctance to do so, arguing that such information would enable the govern...

February 14, 2016

Bernie Sanders's Free College Tuition Problem

Bernie Sanders is running for president of the United States proclaiming that under his presidency, all Americans will have the opportunity to attend public college for free.  There's only one fly in the ointment of this free college proposa...

February 10, 2016

Indenturing Students

Young voters should be very cautious in accepting Bernie Sanders’ idea that college should be free. Anybody who thinks this socialist-spun fantasy is a responsible plan should look at the rising student loan debt. It is now at $1.3 trillion...

February 4, 2016

The Growing Public Pension and Muni Bond Bubble

A credit bubble is created when the amount of money borrowed exceeds the capacity of the borrower to pay it back. This concept is easy to understand, but the financial foundation of borrowing has been manipulated to an historic extreme by government....

January 25, 2016

Illinois governor seeks control of Chicago school system

The new Republican governor of Illinois, Bruce Rauner, is starting his second year of his first term.  He is confronted with a state that has the lowest credit rating of any state; the highest debt of any state; and worse, the most powerful Demo...

January 19, 2016

Same-Sex Marriage Will Lead to Same-Sex Divorce

Same-sex marriage is now the law of the land.  And now that same-sex couples are able to obtain a legal marriage license and bring legal status to their unions, they have, irrevocably, opened the door to the legally mandated process of dissolvin...

January 10, 2016

Obama Administration Promoting Race-based Hawaiian Election

While Democrats always say that every vote must count and that there must be no interference with voter access, recent developments in the state of Hawaii prove President Obama is working to take advantage of limited access, race-based voting in that...

January 8, 2016

A Conspiracy Theory View of Obama's Gun Control Actions

Liberal critics of capitalism love to elaborate on how corporations engage in conspiracies to make themselves rich.  All these conspiracies involve corrupt corporate executives enabled by conservative Republican politicians.  It may be inte...

January 2, 2016

Government Debt Bubble Is Based On Credit Theft

Right now there are ten cities in Illinois where all of the property tax payments made by residents are used exclusively by the local city government to pay pensions and municipal bonds, the two biggest types of debt created by local and state govern...

December 23, 2015

Obama's Message To Terrorists

President Obama’s policies toward the terrorist phenomenon have raised frustration and concern among Americans.  But what may be more important is the impression terrorists get from Obama’s messaging.  President Obama’s...

December 21, 2015

Bernie Sanders is Hillary's Sham Opponent

Once again Saturday night Bernie Sanders was playing his part to enable Hillary Clinton to pretend to be a victim, a strategy that has worked for her in the past.  The newest topic is that she was victimized by Bernie Sanders’ political ca...

December 20, 2015

Jeb Bush And President Obama Should Watch Television Together

In recent days two major political figures, Jeb Bush and President Obama, revealed why American voters are fed up with the establishment political elites.  President Obama had the petulance to comment that he was not aware that Americans were so...

December 18, 2015

Sanctuary City Policy Finally Challenged In Court

When Kate Steinle was murdered by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco, the most troubling aspect of her death was that it could have been prevented.  The alleged murderer had been convicted of seven felonies, and deported five times.  He ...

December 8, 2015

Something rotten in Chicago

The shooting of Laquan McDonald and the subsequent delay and alleged cover-up of the incident have provoked calls for Mayor Emanuel to resign.  But what is most interesting is how this plays into the jostling for political power going on am...

December 5, 2015

Democrats Empower Citizens to Restrict Constitutional Rights

In order to pursue their politicization of personal behavior, progressive Democrats have recently taken a troubling step. They have acted at both the state and Federal levels to empower citizens to take actions that clearly impair the constitutional ...

November 30, 2015

How Clinton and Obama Gamed America's Financial System to Expand Their Party's Power

Since FDR the Democratic Party has continually developed new strategies to keep itself in power; from taking political control of the largest urban areas of the nation to expanding voter lists with illegal immigrants. In the past twenty-five yea...

November 27, 2015

Why do you never see gasoline taxes itemized on your receipt?

In April 2014, I suddenly realized that when you buy gasoline, the receipt does not list all the different taxes you have to pay.  So I emailed the Illinois Policy Institute (https://www.illinoispolicy.org) and asked them to make up a facsimi...

November 24, 2015

President Obama Sees Syrian Refugees as Illegal Immigrants

So far President Obama’s attitude toward Syrian refugees is identical to the way he has approached illegal immigration. He has absolutely no concern for following established procedures for legally admitting foreign nationals into the coun...

November 14, 2015

Toward a Conservation Model of Government Spending

The concept of resource conservation has arisen out of the Marxist/socialist view of class exploitation. Take, for example, the exploitation of a lesser-developed nation’s minerals by a huge multinational corporation. A hundred years ago, ...

November 13, 2015

What the Steinle and Brown Shootings Reveal About Democratic National Strategy

This year the nation was stunned by the deaths of two young people, Kate Steinle and Michael Brown. Each one became the focus of national media coverage. Each one involved a minority. In the Steinle case the alleged murderer is Hispanic while in...

November 4, 2015

Publicly Funded Pensions Now Rival Those of Top CEOs

Recently the Center for Effective Government and Institute for Policy Studies found that the 100 largest chief executive retirement funds are worth an average of about $49.3 million per executive, or a combined $4.9 billion.  This reflects, B...

November 3, 2015

Why Beltway Republicans Are Fighting Over Leadership and Democrats Aren't

Media are portraying the Republican Party in Washington, particularly in the House of Representatives, as being in disarray. Critics claim their difficulty in choosing a House Speaker reveals a lack of focus and direction. There are two issu...

October 30, 2015

Fantasy football and fantasy liberal policies

At the CNBC televised Republican debate, one of the CNBC questioners asked a question about fantasy football.  The question referred to the nature of fantasy football, in that it involves betting money on an uncertain, basically unpredictable ou...

October 10, 2015

Gun Control and the Progressive Concept of Human Nature

There are some very interesting implications of the way progressive Democrats handle the shooting incidents and the way they handle other aspects of human behavior. Progressive Democrats such as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders rebel against t...

September 22, 2015

City Bankruptcy Rulings Challenge Constitutional Democracy

Cities in the U.S. are going bankrupt. The most important fact to realize about this is that it is not the people who caused the bankruptcy, or the big corporations. It is not the private sector of the cities that is causing the bankruptcy ...

September 17, 2015

Training tomorrow's Progressive Army

In 2016, President Obama issued an executive order mandating that all social, environmental, and other Federal regulations will be applied to all branches of military service.  The first group of Army volunteers has reported to training at Ft. H...

September 16, 2015

Disenfranchising American Voters

The Declaration of Independence established the basic idea that the government of the nation must be made up of elected legislators who answer to the will of the people. But in recent years the Democrat Party of the United States, and specifically Pr...

September 15, 2015

Is Trump the first-ever Teflon Republican?

As Donald Trump’s faux pas stack up and the national anti-GOP news media try to blow each incident into a campaign-ending event, Trump’s popularity seems to grow.  This frustrates both those Republican presidential candidates who wan...

September 14, 2015

Why Voters Like Trump's Rudeness

Those like the unfortunate Bobby Jindal, who imagine that they hurt Donald Trump's standing among voters by criticizing his rudeness, don't get it.  They don't understand the feelings of real voters – those who don't live o...

September 7, 2015

How Democrats Created America's Social Caste System

Hundreds of years from now when academics have the objectivity to see what has been going on in the U.S., researchers may see the past two hundred years as the time when the Democrat Party of the U.S. created a politically convenient social caste sys...

September 2, 2015

Hillary Clinton's Unmarked Classified Emails

Hillary Clinton’s defense that the emails she received were not “marked” as classified is great news for anyone accused of any crime with email evidence. For example, Jared Fogle of Indianapolis may reopen his child porn case, an...

August 21, 2015

A Sensible Immigration Strategy

Donald Trump has become the most popular Republican presidential candidate primarily for his anti-establishment posture against what is seen as a do-nothing Congress. What has attracted the most attention from the voting public is his stance aga...

August 12, 2015

The Planned Parenthood Videos: the Emotional Impact

Recently, investigators from the Center for Medical Progress visited Planned Parenthood offices around the nation and met with doctors from Planned Parenthood.  Using hidden video cameras, the investigators discussed the topic of purchasing...

August 10, 2015

American Men Have No Reproductive Rights

The debate and policy initiatives to establish and codify reproductive rights for women are sexist and reflect gender bias. There are few, if any, laws and policies in the U.S. at the state or Federal levels which make any effort to protect men regar...

August 1, 2015

Lions, Fetuses, and Ethics

Recently in Africa, a lion was killed by a game hunter. At the sane time news programs televised videos showing Planned Parenthood doctors discussing how they wanted to preserve fetal internal organs so they could obtain the highest prices for t...

July 29, 2015

Chicago must remove its racist city flag

Spokespersons for the Democratic Party were all voicing their objection to the state of South Carolina flying a Confederate flag.  The Confederacy, they argue, was a collection of states devoted to the oppression of African-Americans.  The ...

July 25, 2015

The U.S. Constitution Needs a New Equal Rights Amendment

Amendments have been added to the U.S. Constitution in order to assure equal rights for various groups of persons. These groups have included freed slaves, women voters, and civil rights for all minorities. However, a new equal rights amendme...

July 23, 2015

Progressive liberals reveal their true character

Liberal Democrats love to run for office wearing missionary robes.  They proclaim that they will help the poor, that they want the minimum wage raised, and that they want the sick, helpless, and elderly to receive money that they will take from ...

July 22, 2015

Why Donald Trump appeals to voters

Donald Trump has skyrocketed in the polls not because he’s pompous and crude and has a bloated image of himself.  His appeal is to those who know that their government has become pompous and full of itself.  Voters are sick and tired ...

July 17, 2015

How Democrats Pillaged Chicago Toward Bankruptcy

Chicago’s financial situation is the worst of any large municipality in the nation. Moody’s recently downgraded the credit rating of the city’s municipal bonds to junk status, a sure sign to investors that the city can’t be re...

July 14, 2015

Why San Francisco is a sanctuary city

Why is are Democrats so loath to say or do anything about the death of Kathryn Steinle, killed by an illegal immigrant in sanctuary city San Francisco?  The answer lies in what I have called the “illegal immigrant entitlement complex....

July 11, 2015

Public Pensions Prove Zero Sum Economics

One of the major appeals in Democrat presidential campaigns  is to explain to voters that they need Democrats in office to take money away from the rich. This is known as the zero sum theory of economic growth:  that at any given time there...

July 8, 2015

Of 'broken' immigration laws and logic

The federal government refuses to enforce immigration laws, then said the laws were "broken" and can't be enforced until there is "immigration reform." It would be nice if the feds applied this to other areas, such as refus...

July 7, 2015

Donald Trump's Criminal Illegal Immigrants

Recently, Donald Trump declared himself a candidate for the office of President of the United States. He came out against illegal immigration and strongly stated that the southern border of the U.S. should be sealed, that he was the only person ...

July 2, 2015

Democrats Exploit Police Powers To Get Rich

Government justifies its taxation of citizens by insisting that they are there only to protect the public; to provide services such as garbage collection, street lights, police and fire protection and, increasingly, entitlements such as health care, ...

June 4, 2015

The New Landed Gentry

The United States was formed to establish the individual’s right to own property and to have a vote in the establishment of laws through the election of representatives. These rights were to be protected through the Bill of Rights in the C...

May 22, 2015

Democrats: The Party Of Fraud

The FTC recently cited several cancer charities for fraudulent practices.  The charities gave false promises and misused funds for personal use. The managers of the Cancer Fund of America used the proceeds to take vacations, give themselves h...

May 14, 2015

Bankruptcy Court Rulings Uncover Historic Government Securities Fraud

Since 2009 Barack Obama and his Party have created eight trillion dollars of public debt.  What most Americans and investors are not aware of is that another eight trillion of government debt was created over the past forty years, mostly by Demo...

May 1, 2015

Baltimore's Mayor Reveals Dilemma of Black Leaders

Baltimore’s Mayor Rawlings-Blake has been criticized for failing to act to swiftly quell the rioting in her city. But her reticence was not due to a lack of competence or experience.  Rather, it is symptomatic of a dilemma faced by black l...

April 10, 2015

Chicago's Mayoral Election a Wakeup Call For The DNC

Just a few days ago, April 7, 2015, the city of Chicago had a mayoral election and its  political dynamics will shake the DNC to its foundations. A relatively unknown Hispanic politician gained 44% of the vote against the powerful mach...

April 9, 2015

Illinois Spearheads States' Rebellion Against Immigration Law

Just a few days ago, on March 25, 2015, Illinois State Senate Democrats proposed a new bill called the Trust Act. This bill called SB 22, states: “No law enforcement agency shall enter into an agreement under federal law that permits State...

March 30, 2015

Celebrating A Nation Without Borders Or Citizenship

The year is 2044 and the former United States is celebrating its new Independence Day.  Two Hispanic residents of the new nation, the Republic of the Americas, are discussing the meaning of the date, November 20.  Miguel is 75 years old ...

March 2, 2015

A Marxist View of the Democrats' Entitlement Economy

Karl Marx, considered the founding figure in the rise of communism, divided all persons into two classes: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Marx said that the bourgeoisie control all the wealth, they own the factories and other means of econo...

January 12, 2015

The New Privileged Class: Illegal Immigrants

The belief is widely held that those who are wealthy or possess great political power are above the law and do not have to respond to the legal constraints endured by the great masses of Americans.   Those on the left who profess to support...

November 29, 2014

President Obama: Major Player in the 21st Century Oil Wars

The Democratic Party has portrayed itself as champions of the environment and keepers of a green, natural earth. They have consistently portrayed the oil industry as a greedy enterprise that spoils the planet and indentures the working class so ...

November 24, 2014

Obama Shreds Constitution

President Obama’s recent “executive action” regarding the Federal government’s laws respecting naturalization marks the first time in U.S. history that a president has usurped the authority of Congress “to establish an u...

November 11, 2014

Obama's Amnesty Strategy

The day after the Republican Party won enough Senate seats to give them a majority in the U.S. Senate, President Obama reaffirmed his position that only those bills passed by Congress that are acceptable to him will be signed into law. He did not say...

September 16, 2014

How Illegal Immigrant Juveniles Will Serve the Democrat Party

As thousands of illegal immigrant juveniles cross the southern border of the U.S., the knee-jerk response of media has been to either support the migration as benefiting those who are fleeing violence of Central American countries, or to complain abo...

September 9, 2014

How Democrats Use the Minimum Wage Issue To Exploit The Poor

The Democrat Party of the U.S. has gained and kept political power by portraying themselves to the masses of people as the only political party that cares about the working middle class and the vulnerable poor. You need us, Democrats love to say at e...

August 21, 2014

Property Tax Corruption

If anything approaches “taxation without representation” in contemporary American government, it is property taxation.  This is because as a practical matter voters – as property owners – have no say in the amount of prop...

July 16, 2014

The 20th Century Rise of The Democratic National Machine

President Obama’s domestic agenda seems to pursue a variety of disparate goals, but in reality he was put in office to achieve one goal only: to support the Party by supporting its infrastructure, what I call the Democratic National Machine....

June 26, 2014

LBJ and Illegal Immigration

As tens of thousands of illegal immigrant juveniles and mothers cross over into Texas and other states on the southern border, American voters are once again being reminded of the softness of the U.S. enforcement of immigration law. What is litt...

June 13, 2014

James Madison Foresaw Illegal Immigration

In 1787 and 1788, as representatives crafted the Constitution of the U.S. three prominent political writers, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison published a series of what would be called today op-eds. These three were not just writers, b...

June 11, 2014

Understanding Government's Real Estate Monopoly

The least understood but most consequential characteristic of government is that it operates on and derives all of its influence from its real estate roots. Governmental organizations of all sizes have been based, since they first were organized...

June 5, 2014

The Democratic Party's War On Women

While his poll numbers have plummeted and a midterm election nears, President Obama is dusting off the old women’s issues playbook of his party and is basing his speeches on its anachronistic rhetoric. They are attempting to once again por...

May 20, 2014

Illegal Immigration Is Immoral

It is generally accepted that the most shameful and immoral chapter of America’s history is the treatment of blacks during the period when the institution of slavery was practiced in the South. This institution created a legacy of equally shame...

May 6, 2014

Unionizing College Sports Pits Unions Against Socialist Principles

The recent controversy over efforts to unionize college athletes rests on the presumption that those who receive scholarship money are in fact employees. Unions see themselves standing for the little guy against the interests of the rich employer. Ho...

April 18, 2014

Republicans Redistribute Wealth Better than Democrats

When President Obama ran for office in 2008 he mentioned that he intended to make income redistribution a major focus of his presidency. Democrats claim that only their candidates are qualified to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor....

March 29, 2014

College Athletes may Regret Unionization

Recently a Federal Judge ruled that college athletes have a right to unionize, that they may form a union and engage in collective bargaining to ensure good wages and salaries.  Those who promote the unionization of student athletes use the trad...

March 25, 2014

Smartphone Apps: Are They Constitutional?

When Edward Snowden revealed to the world that the NSA, an agency of the U.S. government, was using its technology to retrieve and store information from cell phone calls and e-mails, it immediately provoked concerns that the Fourth Amendment was bei...

March 10, 2014

How Social Justice Crashed the Economy

Ever since FDR’s New Deal initiative, Democrats have gathered electoral support through the distribution of federal program dollars.  They justify their spending by saying it is done to pursue “social justice” and “fairne...

February 27, 2014

Why Eric Holder needs Felons to Vote

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder recently stated that we must revisit the laws that ban convicted felons from voting. After all, it is depriving them of the opportunity to vote, and all votes must count. While John Fund and Hans Von Spakovsky hav...

January 29, 2014

The Minimum Wage Hike: Who Pays?

As President Obama tries to deflect attention away from his failed foreign and domestic policies he's bringing up the old class warfare issue in one of its stereotypical garbs: a raise in the minimum wage. It would be nice for everyone to earn more ...

January 27, 2014

Busted! The Democratic Party's Moral Superiority

Many analysts of national news media have noted that there is a double standard with regard to how the media report the behavioral faux pas of Republican versus Democratic politicians. But there is a far more important difference between the two nat...

January 22, 2014

Property Taxes Pave the Road to Serfdom

Under the feudal system of the middle ages, a serf was an agricultural laborer who was bound to work on his lord's estate. The lord owned the land, and the laborer had no choice but to live on the lord's property and hand a significant amount of...

November 12, 2013

The Coming Hispanic Civil Rights Movement

See also: Why Republicans Lose in Urban Areas Whenever politicians across America speak of the Hispanic community, the message they convey is always the same: we need immigration reform. But underneath this status quo political camouflage lies a grow...

November 10, 2013

Public Sector Unions are a Shadow Political Party

In recent months Washington has been rocked by scandals such the IRS's manipulation of tax exempt status for political groups opposing the Democratic Party.  This is just the most recent example of how federal public sector unions have been clan...

October 23, 2013

If Money is Property

The most important issue facing all Americans in their battle against the regulatory power of a growing central government is a very simple one: whether money is property. In recent decades the federal government has grown at a much faster rate than...

October 8, 2013

The U.S. Constitution has no Teeth

As the Obama Administration works around the Constitution and performs thousands of acts that are in direct defiance of constitutional law and established legislative practice, the emerging issue is that it does not appear to be a crime to defy the C...

October 5, 2013

Public Sector Unions Must be Abolished

The recent battle over a Federal government shutdown adds more evidence to the argument that public sector unions must be abolished. Cities are reeling under unsustainable pensions paid to government workers who are not working. And those in state go...

September 15, 2013

Reducing High School Football Concussions

Recently, while at a high school football game, I noticed a few players on a team who repeatedly engaged in helmet to helmet contact, such as head butting and spearing: when one player runs into the face of another, leading with the crown of his helm...

August 29, 2013

The Educators' War on the Working Class

They say that capitalism is the deadliest threat to poor Americans.  But that's not true -- it's actually Big Education. We are constantly told that educators are "dedicated" to improving the lives of students and that a good education opens t...

August 24, 2013

How Congress lost its Immigration Authority

While the Constitution gives Congress the exclusive power to "establish a uniform rule" of naturalization, this power has been usurped by the actions of many politicians in the past 40 years. I have written many times here in AT about what states ha...

August 18, 2013

San Diego's Mayor Filner and Democratic Strategy

The abusive behavior of Mayor Filner of San Diego toward women has provoked an interesting situation: while Democrats profess to be the party of women, so far no prominent male Democratic politician has condemned Filner's actions.  The only cond...

August 4, 2013

How Democrats use Federal Agencies to Influence Politics

Democrats control the largest American cities and their electoral success is due to the support of black voters. They have achieved this domination by segregating the black population and controlling black politicians. Today, virtually all major blac...

July 13, 2013

Snowden, J. Edgar Hoover and Compromising Secrets

J. Edgar Hoover ruled the FBI for forty-eight years, and his power was so great that he also had an influence over government.  Many Beltway politicians, senators, congressional representatives, and even presidents feared J. Edgar Hoover.  ...

July 11, 2013

Moral Extortion and Blackmail Rhetoric

The Democratic Party has achieved and maintained power through a clever abuse of Western ethics. The strategy can be seen through a discussion of two types of manipulation: moral extortion and moral blackmail. Moral extortion is the technique of cre...

July 5, 2013

How Democrats Exploit Minorities

Democrats have portrayed themselves as the only political party that cares for the needs of minorities, that somehow they are uniquely qualified to help them. But a state senator from Louisiana, Elbert Guillory, recently left the Democratic Party and...

June 26, 2013

Why Democrats will Never Secure the Border

As immigration reform is discussed in Washington, the sticking point will be, predictably, that Democrats will insist on amnesty and not agree to any verifiable method of closing and securing the southern border. Democrats, as I have argued here bef...

June 25, 2013

The IRS, the NSA, and Obama's Dirty Tricks

The recent IRS and NSA scandals reveal that the Federal government, during the first term of President Obama, used the IRS to weaken the political campaigns of Obama's opponents, and that the NSA collected and stored personal information on virtually...

June 12, 2013

Spying on Americans: the Legal Status of Emails

The recent news that the NSA is collecting information on Americans from nine internet sources has brought to the forefront a confrontation between traditional sources of information and the legal framework of the government's right to investigate in...

May 28, 2013

How Liberal Media Profit from Supporting Democrats

The idea that the national news media have a Democratic bias is well known. The Media Research Center has found a clear difference between the way the national news media treat Democrats and Republicans. But the media effort is not just supportive of...

May 12, 2013

Sanctuary cities and states will bear the lion's share of amnesty cost

As Congress ponders an immigration reform bill that may result in amnesty, the Heritage Foundation has released the most comprehensive report to date on the long-term fiscal cost of such an amnesty.  Critics of reports such as these often respon...

May 4, 2013

Federal enforcement, not Immigration Reform, is Needed

While the gang of eight ponders immigration reform, what the American people need to understand is that statutory improvements are not is what is needed to correct the illegal immigration problem. What is needed is Federal enforcement of laws, whethe...

April 21, 2013

Register Guns, not Immigrants

The recent bombings at the Boston marathon finishing line once again reminded Americans of their vulnerability to terrorist acts. Fresh in the collective public awareness is also the issue of gun violence. Congress is at the same time wrestling with...

April 18, 2013

Why Government Bureaucrats Abuse Taxpayers

In 2010 the nation learned that the city manager and council members of Bell, CA were abusing their public positions and improperly giving themselves pay increases. The city manager had increased his public salary to nearly $800K a year. The police c...

April 10, 2013

American Colonialism

Prominent African-American economists such as Walter Williams have shown that the New Deal programs of FDR, the "Great Society" programs of LBJ, and the "income redistribution" initiatives have failed to achieve their stated goals of improving the li...

April 8, 2013

The Chicago Roots of Obama's (and America's) Political Ideology

President Obama lives at a time when there are two very different and very well-defined political ideologies. On the one hand, the GOP is fighting for spending contraints, limited regulation, and more personal economic choice. President Obama and his...

March 26, 2013

State of Illinois, meet Reality

Illinois, while not the most populous state, has led the nation in unfunded pension liabilities and bond debt. Now, however, its borrowing binge may be ending The change has not come about because the state is defaulting on its payments or seeking b...

March 20, 2013

The Politics of Demographics

At first glance one might think that politicians get elected by studying the concerns of voters through focus groups and polls; then addressing those concerns with the goal of getting a plurality of votes. But since FDR, the government has been not j...

March 12, 2013

Gaining Hispanic Voters

Republicans are contemplating how they can gain Hispanic support in the next election. Some analysts have said that they can't compete with giving away benefits to Hispanic voters, since the Democrats already have that locked up. So many millions of ...

March 11, 2013

The Chicago Roots of President Obama's Leadership Style

Speaker Boehner and the Republican House are frustrated that they can't get President Obama or Senate leader Reid to compromise with them. The regular rules of order in Congress are that the committees hold hearings, both parties have input into the...

February 22, 2013

How Democrats Sponsored Illegal Immigration

That 11 million illegal immigrants are present in the U.S. is taken as proof that the system doesn't work. The immigration system is broken, we are told, and in need of reform. But the truth is, those 11 million illegal immigrants did not enter throu...

January 12, 2013

Obama's Zero-Sum Game and the Coming Redistribution Bubble

As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama stated to Joe the plumber that the primary goal of government should be income redistribution.  And in reality, Obama has made great strides with regard to income redistribution, having enlarged ...

December 30, 2012

How Chicago and Obama Globalized Voter Fraud

Chicago has a long tradition of padding its vote totals by placing homeless and deceased persons on its voter registration list. Jim Laski, who once served as the City Clerk of Chicago, second in power only to the mayor, noted in his book My Fall Fro...

December 24, 2012

GOP Strategy and the Fiscal Cliff

Both Speaker John Boehner and media analysts have been spun into a state of confusion by the fiscal cliff issue and President Obama's reelection. The fiscal cliff exists because the president and the GOP Congress could not decide in 2011 on a permane...

December 15, 2012

Throwing Labor Under the Bus

As Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and other states try to limit the collective bargaining rights of organized labor, the national media work to create the impression that Republicans are anti-labor and are undermining the labor unions' hard-earned col...

October 2, 2012

Chicago, the New Capital of Segregation

Chicago has long been known as the oldest and most powerful politicali machine in the U.S.  What is not so well-known is that "Daley's modern Chicago was built ... on an unstated foundation: commitment to racial segregation"ii.  In 1959 the...

September 1, 2012

Has New York City Gotten an Economic Boost From Its Immigrants?

New York's Mayor Bloomberg recently stated that "'opening the doors to all who want to come here and work' is a cost-free way to help the economy quickly." Any discussion of immigrants and economic growth by Mayor Bloomberg needs to start with this f...

July 19, 2012

Public-Sector Unions In Charge

Chicago's Mayor Daley (1955-1976) was the most powerful American mayor of the 20th century.  He accumulated power by expanding Chicago's city and county payrolls with "patronage workers."  Those workers, along with their families and relati...

May 13, 2012

Why Obama Challenged Arizona's Immigration Law

When Arizona's state senate passed SB (Senate Bill) 1070i, the Obama administration immediately sued and enjoined the state from enforcing parts of the bill.  As the issue is argued before the Supreme Court, political questions remain: why did P...

April 26, 2012

The Matricula Consular: The Only Card an Illegal Immigrant Will Ever Need

The "matricula consular" is an identification card issued by a Mexican consulate.  It is designed to be used by illegal immigrants[i].  With this card they can receive federal, state, and local benefits.  The ID card is little-known ou...

April 20, 2012

The Battle the Democrats Cannot Afford to Win

There is one project that liberals never complete -- a task that is talked about all the time, especially during campaigns, but for some reason just can't get done. It is "making the rich pay their fair share" of taxes.  Somehow, even though Pre...

February 17, 2012

American Politics in One Easy Lesson

Michelle, a citizen of France, was visiting an acquaintance, Paul, in New York City.  Years ago Michelle's sister went to graduate school with Paul, and the three have kept in contact.  Michelle was able to spend all afternoon with Paul whi...

January 25, 2012

You're right Mr. President, We Need More 'Fairness'

Thank you Mr. President, for bringing up the issue of fairness.  I'm sure that's important to many people.  One curious thing, though, with regard to the application of "fairness" it seems that all the recommendations you have, are decided ...

December 11, 2011

The Differences between Corporate Greed and Government Greed

As the country continues to suffer from joblessness and excessive federal deficit spending, the Occupy Wall Street protesters continue to aggressively chant that the lack of job growth and national debt are due to a simple cause: corporate greed....

December 10, 2011

According to the Coyote

In the early pre-dawn hours of a spring day, a small group of immigrants is gathered in northern Mexico, on the bank of the Rio Grande River.  The coyote is about to lead them across a shallow stretch of the river, into the promised land of Amer...

October 24, 2011

What the 'Taxing the Rich' Rhetoric Really Means

When I was in college, I took a course in clinical psychology.  One day, the professor shared an experience he had with a paranoid schizophrenic patient.  In one of his first months working at a mental hospital (as they were then called), h...

September 4, 2011

What Darwin Said About God

No figure in modern history has received as much religiously based criticism as Charles Darwin.  He is seen as worse than an atheist; his work has been attacked as a threat to the belief that the universe and mankind are God's creations. Charles...

August 30, 2011

Why Obama Grows Government and Creates Debt

President Obama's historic expansion of government at a time of great recession is attributed to his socialist agenda of "income redistribution."  While Barack Obama did use these words in his campaign exchange with Joe the Plumber, in reality O...

August 24, 2011

Why Obama Can't Lead

President Obama's inability to be decisive and inept leadership stem not from his lack of executive experience, but from his grounding in a specific political culture, the one he sought out in Chicago.  His entry and indoctrination into the...