As expected, the police and whites are being blamed for this summer’s urban unrest – with black lives matter protests turning into riots – including the recent police shootings in Dallas. The accusation is that white cops are doing nothing but running around hunting and shooting upstanding, law-abiding, unarmed black men. Never mind the actual […]
If you’ve spent time in a college or university any time in the past quarter-century you probably aren’t surprised to hear that professors have become strikingly more liberal. In 1990, according to survey data by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA, 42 percent of professors identified as “liberal” or “far-left.” By 2014, that […]
Personal responsibility requires more than involvement…it requires knowledgable involvement and effective activism. As we start out the New Year, we all need to commit to gaining better understanding of the issues, and the principles of freedom as preserved by the Constitution–and then act on it!
From an often mean-spirited presidential primary campaign to the offices of state and local government — which have been reliable breeding grounds for all sorts of skullduggery — some of the year’s strangest tales have been criminal, but more were simply weird or profoundly dumb. This rundown makes no mention of Donald Trump or anyone […]
Note: Foundations of Liberty does not agree with the liberal slant of these stories, but has published them as a record of what was reported to America. Donald Trump at an October rally in Nevada. (Photo: Lance Iversen/AP) The Donald’s rise, and rise Without a doubt, Donald Trump was the biggest political story of 2015. […]
“The onslaught of regulations and executive orders from the Obama administration has chipped away at the 10th Amendment and its division of power, putting more control in bureaucratic hands than that of the people or the states.” One of the basic responsibilities of the executive branch is to execute the law faithfully. The Obama Administration, however, […]
One of the anomalies of the 2016 presidential election was the fact that an old white guy from Vermont was able to captivate a diverse audience of young millennials. The most obvious reason for Bernie Sanders’s popularity was his advocacy for free college provided by the government. With higher education costs multiplying at a rapid rate […]
When I ran to represent Wisconsin’s 8th District, I made a promise to treat my time in Congress like a deployment, not a career. During my time in the Marine Corps, I saw firsthand the change in mentality a deployment can bring to a group of Americans from diverse backgrounds. What I saw young servicemen and […]
