February 25, 2018

The Second Amendment does not give us the right to bear arms

In speaking with many fellow gun-owners, I have come to realize that most people don't know that the Second Amendment does not give us the right to bear arms.  The Second Amendment states that the right to bear arms "shall not...

February 24, 2018

Disarmed school guard Aaron Feis: It's worse than we thought

When I wrote "Hero Aaron Feis, Disarmed School Guard" this past Sunday, the only available public comment about the Stoneman Douglas High School resource officer was that he was not present at the school, per a Broward County school officia...

February 19, 2018

Hero Aaron Feis, the Disarmed School Guard

Aaron Feis was the right man in the right place at the right time, but he was legally prevented from using the right, constitutionally protected tool to do the job.  Mr. Feis was shot on Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, shie...

November 15, 2017

In Defense of Football

Last week at a roundtable discussion, Bob Costas opened another front by making the provocative prediction that parents will not allow their sons to play football because it "destroys people's brains" and that "if I had an athletic...

August 16, 2014

College Board Erases the Founding Fathers. Protect the Spirit of '76.

The classic novel Brave New World describes a future in which people have lost all of their liberty and in which they have become drugged robots obedient to a central authority.  It also details how this control was first established.  Firs...

January 19, 2014

'Middle of the Road' Leads to the 'End of the Road'

"...There are in this country many periodicals which in every issue furiously attack economic freedom. There is hardly any magazine of opinion that would plead for the system that supplied the immense majority of the people with good food and shelte...

October 4, 2013

Hitting the Government's Credit Card Limit

President Obama has taken to the nation's airwaves raising the specter of a default on U.S. Treasury obligations, as if the only source of funds for paying interest and debt is further borrowing. This is as believable as his promise that Americans co...

March 11, 2013

Washington on "the Emperor Problem"

Along with many Americans, I noted with alarm President Obama's Valentine's Day statement at a Google hangout on why he can't take more action on overhauling immigration policy: "This is something I've struggled with throughout my presidenc...

December 10, 2012

Ludwig von Mises on Why Resistance Is Not Futile

In his classic treatise, "Liberalism," written in the 1920s, Ludwig von Mises wrote some amazingly relevant comments concerning Barack Obama's budgetary demands and the current negotiations between the Republicans and Democrats on the "fiscal cliff...

November 7, 2012

'We Must Never Despair'

In May 1780, the Continental Army suffered its worst defeat when Cornwallis took Charleston. Later that summer, Horatio Gates and the Continental Army were soundly defeated at Camden. Cornwallis planned to head north and attack Washington in Virginia...

April 5, 2012

Madison, Obama and the Commerce Clause

President Obama's arguments in favor of ObamaCare are constitutionally false, contrary to the logic of the document.  No less an authority than James Madison in the Federalist Papers refutes the president's logic. Concerning the national nature ...

May 27, 2011

America's Ten Most Dangerous Cities and their Mayors

Here are America's Ten Most Dangerous Cities and their Mayors:1. Flint, MichiganDayne Walling, Democrat, term 2007- present2. Detroit, MichiganDave Bing, Democrat, term 2009 - present3. Saint Louis, MoFrancis G. Slay, Democrat, term 2001 - present4. ...

September 8, 2010

Some lessons on government funding brought to you by Madison and Hamilton

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August 18, 2010

'A Piece of Red Cloth'

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July 26, 2010

Arizona immigration law and Federalist number 27

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March 23, 2010

The Federalist Papers and Obamacare

While publishing the Federalist papers in 1787/1788, two of the major architects of the Constitution, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, made some highly pertinent comments that apply to Obamacare.James Madison, Federalist Number 14: “I...

November 6, 2009

James Madison and the Pelosi health care bill

James Madison, in Federalist, number 57, has some words highly relevant to the Pelosi health care reform bill:"If it be asked, what is to restrain the house of representatives from making legal discriminations in favour of themselves, and a...