Month: December 2012

Founders Empowered The People’s House

“The House of Representatives remains the most democratic  part of the national constitutional system.” The American people reconfirmed on Nov. 6 that they are content with divided government. While President Obama had  an impressive electoral victory and the Democrats picked up  seats…

Virginia Seeks To Check “Card Check”

The Virginia General Assembly is not set to begin until  January 9 but already the wheels are starting to turn. The Senate’s Privileges and Elections Committee recently passed a bill that calls for amending the state’s constitution to guarantee voter…

DOMA Hits The Supreme Court

I don’t know whether to be excited or depressed.  The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear two cases on same sex marriage. One is Hollingsworth v. Perry, which asks the question of whether the Fourteenth Amendment of…

Agenda 21: The Trojan Horse

We’ve know for years that the  federal government  was hell-bent on removing any local control and input from average American citizens concerning what you can do with your own land,  private property, local schools, and local infrastructures from bridges to meeting…

Privacy – What Privacy!?!?

Libertycrier – Transit authorities in cities across the country are quietly installing microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses that would give them the ability to record and store private conversations, according to documents obtained by a news outlet. The systems…

Safety Is Not The Abortion Industries Top Priority

Twelve years ago the Clinton Administration arrogantly pushed through approval of RU486, the so-called “abortion pill”  using a procedure intended to speed approval of new medicines for terminally ill patients. Following Clinton’s election, the FDA urged RU486 manufacturer Rouessel Uclaf…

The Chickens Have It!

There is more than one way to kill the fossil fuel industry. In payback to his  environmental activist voters, the Obama administration has initiated a plan to declare the lesser prairie chicken a threatened species, citing its imperiled habitat—which just happens…

Class Warfare On Steroids

Obama’s main goal in the fiscal cliff negotiations is to impose a class-warfare tax hike, presumably thinking this  will give the government more money to spend.  But,  recent evidence from the United Kingdom suggests that he won’t get nearly as…

America Was Based on Freedom

A Passion For Liberty     By Tibor R. Machan So few grasp this that it’s embarrassing.  The political purpose of America, as made pretty clear by the Founders and the Declaration of Independence, was to secure for the people a country…

The GOP Must Stop The Capitulation Carousel

Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute  says that the backdoor negotiations on solving the fiscal cliff  and reducing the deficit are irksome because our  fiscal problem is excessive government spending. Red ink is merely a symptom of that underlying problem.   Politicians…