April 27, 2014

Article V Movement Gathers Steam, Critics Seethe

One of the sure signs that your federal government is in a state of disarray is when record numbers of Americans begin turning to the U.S. Constitution to figure out just where it all went wrong.  Until recently, these readers might have skipped...

February 9, 2014

The Final Constitutional Option

Having been dormant for centuries, a potent section in the U.S. Constitution is now in the minds and on the lips of a new generation of reformers who are determined to keep the nation out of an abyss.  As America stares hard at the darkness...

February 1, 2014

Article V Convention: Path of Least Resistance

In what is taking shape as a sort of Great Awakening, state legislators have begun to learn that they hold equal status with Congress when it comes to proposing amendments to the U.S. Constitution.  Indeed, a handful of state legislators fr...

July 21, 2013

The Mind-Boggling Implications of a Bitcoin Economy

Just when we thought we had seen the last great innovation of our age, something new appears.  Like the internet that came before, an obscure open-source computer protocol is poised to create and destroy whole industries and has already become a...

November 10, 2012

Is It Time for a Virtual Congress?

Legend has it that Washington, D.C. is built on swampland.  While marshes are prevalent, the legend is false, but at the same time, it is figuratively true.  Swamps are messy places -- notorious breeding grounds for all sorts of pestilence....