Category: Basic American Rights

By: Greg Halvorson

As anyone who hasn’t been sailing solo around the world or living in a cave knows, the United States Constitution is under attack. The Democrat-controlled health care bill, which, if passed, will designate 16% of the economy …

What is the Source of “Rights”?

By Publius Huldah

Do you have a “right” to medical care? Is medical care free? Does it grow on trees? If you don’t pay for your own medical care, do you have a “right” to get …

Through the official statements of the USCCB, the Catholic bishops assert that health care is a “basic human right.” Since the release of their 1981 pastoral letter on health and health care, the bishops have consistently argued that the federal …

More and more people are dissatisfied with the direction in which our leaders are taking us. We may not be geniuses… not that our leaders are … but it’s been obvious for decades that there’s something wrong with our government. …

The question of gay marriage and the threats towards its opponents(particularly Mormons) show a great deal about both sides and the passion involved in the debate. The left screams that marriage is a civil right that those who oppose …

Especially since 1932, the Left has been “boiling us like a frog, 1-degree-at-a-time” toward a Marxist/Communist/Socialist-totalitarian end, now resulting in Barack Hussein Obama, farther Left than self-proclaimed Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (“Democrat”, Vermont), getting the Presidency.

A recent decision in Federal Immigration court made me wonder: who exactly is entitled to the protections of our constitution? Judge Michael W. Straus found that the “constitutional rights of sixteen illegal aliens had been violated and that they …

In her brief time in the national spotlight, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, if nothing else, has rejuvenated the debate in this country regarding certain fundamental values. Interestingly, not all of this stems directly from the candidate’s spoken …

The statements made by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Joseph Biden on Meet the Press have provided a wonderful, even providential, opportunity to present the Church’s teaching on abortion and explain its foundational importance to Catholic moral …

My mother used to say that it’s better to go from being poor to being rich than from having been rich and become poor because you don’t yearn for what you’ve lost. However, my experience has been that if you’ve …

With mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae lying in ruins and private establishments like Lehman Brothers and AIG reduced to welfare queens on public assistance, an irrefutable truth must be accepted: Not everyone can afford the American Dream.

The Miami (FL) Herald let lose with another propagandistic broadside against the 2nd Amendment on Thursday featuring some more moaning and false statements about how horrible it is for America that the misnamed “assault weapons ban” has lapsed. There is …

Columnist Tom Eblen of the Lexington, Kentucky Herald-Leader has proven to the world that he doesn’t know what a “right” is. He thinks it is something that you can “compromise” over. He thinks it is something that can be endlessly …

Once again, National Crime Victims’ Rights Week is upon us (April 13 - April 19, 2008). In his annual proclamation granting the week such standing, President George W. Bush stated, “My Administration is committed to providing services and resources for …

Recently here in Pennsylvania the anti-smokers have been on the march waging their usual campaign against private property rights. On radio they have been running ads featuring two fictitious anti-smokers sitting in a restaurant having a nice chat, ordering …