Regardless of the socialistic views of Cory Booker, and other liberals, America is a Republic, pure and simple. Democracies are too burdensome and slow to accomplish all America has attained in 230 years—not to mention that mob rule (the reality of democracy) is too unstable to last even half that time! Foundations of Liberty will […]
In withdrawing federal protection for transgendered students, the Trump administration paid tribute to our federalist system. “The president believes that this is a states’ rights issue,” said White House spokesman Sean Spicer, “We are a states’ rights party. The president in a lot of issues believes that these issues are states’ rights issues.” Yet, hours […]
Life expectancy in the U.S. fell for the second year in a row in 2016, nudged down again by a surge in fatal opioid overdoses, federal officials report Thursday. “I’m not prone to dramatic statements,” says Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics. “But I think we should […]
The irony of gun laws is that there would be no Independence Day without guns. Without guns, there would be no Independence Day. In fact, without citizens owning (and using) guns, there would be no Second Amendment – because there would be no Constitution to amend. This probably sounds pretty obvious to Conservatives. But, believe […]
On April 7, 2017, the Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch, a 49-year-old federal judge who could help cement a conservative majority on the bench for decades, to the Supreme Court. In order to better understand what this could mean for future court rulings, below is an excerpt from The Heritage Foundation’s review of Judge Gorsuch. Excellent Choice for […]
Well at least one Democrat understood the value of tax cuts…and he was the party hero for decades, but his wisdom is forgotten in today’s world of tax and spend. In a 1963 message to Congress on tax reduction and reform, JFK stated: “Our tax system still siphons out of the private economy too large […]
Your act of protest can help fix the broken health-care system and improve Medicare billing. America is in denial about the depth and breadth of the problems with its health-care system. While there is much discussion of rescinding the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), there is nothing being discussed as a substitute that begins to address […]
For weeks, Facebook has been questioned about its role in spreading fake news. Now the company has mounted its most concerted effort to combat the problem. Facebook said on Thursday that it had begun a series of experiments to limit misinformation on its site. The tests include making it easier for its 1.8 billion members […]
Don’t worry about fake news. The whole scare is, itself, fake news. Don’t believe a word of it. Could it be that the news media is still trying to distract us from their own poor performance? After all, if inaccuracy makes a thing “fake,” then all the pundits’ and pollsters’ pre-election day predictions were pretty […]
Most people know what it’s like to be broke in college. What they might not know is that increasingly, students are using aid dollars to cover their lifestyles as well. As student loan debt reaches a record $1.3 trillion, more students report using some of that money to pay for expenses not directly related to […]
