Rights of sovereignty

Texas Governor Rick Perry held a news conference recently which made national news.  The occasion was the passing of HCR 50, a resolution restating the position and power of Texas in matters of states rights over matters not specifically designated to the federal government in the US Constitution. Texas was the 27th state to pass [...]

The apology tour

President Obama’s recent tour to the G-20 and beyond was not about America, it was about him and his popularity beyond our shores.  Before the G-20 he apologized to the world for America’s lack of regulatory oversight and uncontrolled monetary policy which he claims partially caused the worldwide economic meltdown. 
Most American’s don’t get the [...]

Iacocca outrage

A few days ago, I picked up Lee Iacocca’s , Where Have All the Leaders Gone. He had some pretty frank things to say: ‘Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder! We’ve got a gang of [...]

Tea anyone?

The Boston Tea Party was carried out by the Sons of Liberty on December 16, 1773 in protest of the Tea Act which granted a monopoly to the East India Company to sell tea to the colonies. According to the British Constitution, British subjects could be taxed only by their own representatives. The Colonist argued [...]

$25,000 and rising

According to Investor’s Business Daily, that’s what our individual debt amounts to if you take into account the number of taxpaying entities we have in this country divided into the national debt. If Obama’s new Omnibus spending bill, a.k.a. the 2010 budget is enacted into law, it will put every taxpayer into debt nearly $25,000.
In [...]

Obama’s war on prosperity

Since taking office, the president has spent a good bit of his time talking down the economy instead of encouraging Americans to return their individualism and remember it was a sum of individual efforts that made this country great. Instead, he has asked us to have faith in his government stimulus which can only [...]

The central bank scam

Thomas Jefferson once said, “A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army.” Andrew Jackson staked his presidency on defeating Nicholas Biddle and the Bank of the United States. Look close at the Civil War and you will find slavery was not [...]

Judicial supremacy

According to Judicial Watch, Phoenix now has the second-highest kidnapping rate per capita in the world, just behind Mexico City. So why is the Department of Justice and Congress going after Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County? DOJ recently let him know he was under investigation for patterns of” discriminatory harassment” and “inappropriate” (unconstitutional) [...]

International regulation

The G-20 meeting in Britain is over and the two things which came out of it were a plan for international regulation of several US financial markets and an agreement for member nations to put $1 trillion into the IMF to be spent with developing nations.
The part about international regulation worries me and here is [...]

Challenge to Liberty

Recently, a reader sent me The Challenge to Liberty, written by Herbert Hoover in 1933. The thing I found most curious in the book was the parallel it had to today’s economic and political debate.
Hoover was a Republican, but far from what would be called today a “conservative.” He was a practical engineer who saw [...]