Category: American Government

In broad daylight, after having won a landslide victory last November, congressional Republicans are engineering the most embarrassing surrender since Napoleon at Waterloo. And the greatest outrage of it is that such a debacle need not ever take place. To …

That’s a pretty bold statement to make until we look at some of their arguments for not resolving the enormous debt congress has racked up over the years. Harry Reid wants to subsidize Cowboys. Chuck Schumer wants to subsidies …

Amateur hour at the White House continued this week. President Obama, who swears up and down, cross his heart and hope to die, that he is serious about tackling the federal budget deficit released his proposed budget for fiscal …

One nightmarish chapter of the Obama/Reid/Pelosi has mercifully ended. The “lame duck” debacle is at last at an end. And America waits expectantly to see if all of the efforts of the grassroots to begin the work of restoring the …

It wasn’t the America people who ran up the enormous national debt. It wasn’t the American people who through excessive regulations and tax have forced small industries to leave the country. It wasn’t the American people who turned the world’s …

I know, I know, there are quite a few public servants who are conscientious about doing their jobs, and actually do the job they’re paid, through public funds, to do. The problem is, I, and probably many of my readers …

President Obama brought together a bunch of politicians to form a deficit panel and they were going to come up with a plan to reduce the deficit. What did they throw up on the table to chew on? We increase …

The most sanctified non-lethal, non-violent weapon, used against anyone who would have the audacity of proclaiming themselves as the supreme ruler and untouchable dictator over the American people has finally been restored. We have reversed and corrected one of our …

Webster describes a democracy as (1) “governments in which the people hold the ruling power either directly or through elected representatives; rule by the ruled. (2) A country, state, etc. with such government (3) Majority rule. (4) The principle of …

President Barack Obama’s handpicked U.S. Justice Department officials are ignoring civil rights cases in which the alleged victims are whites and they abandoned a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party  that resulted in a “travesty of justice,” according to …

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 …