Category: American Government

The Obama administration continues the nation’s travels, since Franklin Roosevelt’s socialist New Deal in the 1930s, along what Friedrich von Hayek called The Road To Serfdom.

Just like it isn’t bragging when you can really do it and it isn’t paranoia when they’re really out to get you the bluster of an undefeated champion is often well founded. For years when Mohammed Ali said, …

Perhaps somewhere along the line I acquired an egregious misunderstanding of the premeditated and calculated limited powers granted to the Congress and the Executive Branch by the United States Constitution. It has always been my understanding, and also the understanding …

One notable work of the estimable science-fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein was Farnham’s Freehold. Farnham had built a fallout shelter, now a real-world relic of the Cold War.

J. Wellington Wimpy, as many will recall from the Popeye cartoons, is a lazy and gluttonous shyster. He is most famous perhaps for his attempts to con food without paying stating, with a straight face, “I’ll gladly pay your …

Americans need to ask themselves a question. How much government do we really need? The statists who currently run things in Washington see a need for an ever expanding government with more and more being consumed by the state. Healthcare, …

We are speeding headlong toward a time when our Congress will have become just like Mad King George’s Parliament, that body from which in 1776 the American colonists separated with the rallying cry of “no taxation without representation.” Our national …

In a stunning decision, Dictator Barack Hussein Obama and his State-run media—along with ObamaFriends Dictators Fidel Castro (Cuba) and Hugo Chavez (Venezuela)—announced that he supports Honduran President Manuel Zelaya against the democratic Honduran forces. Note: After Obama’s stance on Iran, …

The time for a nationwide protest against our “lawmakers” has come—I am no longer referring to them as our representatives as they have stopped representing We-the-People. The volume of calls placed on Friday to the US Capitol switchboard and our …

By: Kevin Hilliker

The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education act has been renamed, “the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, and Act to reauthorize and reform the national service laws.” The name alone stirs images of smiling citizens helping their fellow …

President Obama seems intent upon cramming stifling socialist programs down our throats domestically, while he relies upon pretty-word diplomacy with foreign nations that have vowed to destroy us.

Is the report from Homeland Security’s new chief that warns that returning vets are dangerous, gospel preachers are to be feared and pro-life advocates are borderline something out of Mad Magazine or is it more akin to something right out …

Chris Dodd is the rule not the exception of corrupt congressman and women. No where on earth are the opportunities more prevalent for graft and bribery than in Washington. Congress deals with such huge amounts of money anything less than …

A reader asserts that, in the chicken-or-egg-first debate, prosperity is not possible without organization of the economy by government. David Airth, a reader who frequently posts thought-provoking ripostes to articles appearing on this website, commented in response to …

President Barack Obama proposes fundamental and sweeping changes to America. These proposed changes are manifest in the proposed budget. We can only expect further changes in future budgets and attendant bills. The question we should ask, and deserves serious discussion, …