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John F. McManus on Leftists

“Left has come to represent increasing government control. The extreme leftist typically seeks total government. Working their way toward total government power are the Communists, socialists,...

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Ayn Rand on Government control

“Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -– and the solution is laissez-faire capitalism, i.e., the abolition of any...

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What would a functioning press look like?

The ATF is engaged in a criminal gun running operation to Mexican drug cartels, called ‘Operation Fast & Furious’, and the press is nowhere to be found. This operation provided a gun that killed a...

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“Government’s authority to coerce will not end with Obamacare”

Representative Steve King wrote the above titled piece for the July 11 Des Moines Register. What he says about about the Supreme Court sanctioning Congress’ overreach is all true. So what? Here’s a...

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The best in the House (9)

In the July 9 New American on page 21 is the Congressional report card. I’ll list those House members receiving a 90% or higher score. McClintock – California Broun – Georgia Labrador – Idaho Landry, J...

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Theft is theft

[I thought these three bits of wisdom from Liberty Quotes made two very important points, and that is that theft does not somehow become "okay" with the passage of time, and that theft with a majority...

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There’s a reason you’ve never heard of H.L. Mencken

“The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun...

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Life, liberty and property

“The right of property is the guardian of every other right, and to deprive the people of this, is in fact to deprive them of their liberty.” – Arthur Lee (1740-1792) Virgina delegate to the...

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A Republic – if you can keep it (we couldn’t)

“I can’t think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average American, and for the news media, to come to the...

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The beginning of the end?

“It’s now legal to buy marijuana in Colorado”, says the page 5A headline in the 1/2 Register. Good grief. It took until the year 2014 to start taking back some power from the government? Let’s hope the...

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