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• Patriot Act author says NSA surveillance ‘an abuse’ of the law - 13 Jun 2013
  posted in Alerts & Featured & Privacy & Surveillance

  “The administration claims authority to sift through details of our private lives because the Patriot Act says that it can. I disagree. I authored the Patriot Act, and this is an abuse of that law.” – Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner Patriot Act author slams FISC, NSA, and Obama’s defense of sweeping, unwarranted government surveillance! Take Action! [...]

• Reid says GO8 Attack on Freedom an ‘Easy’ Pass - 29 May 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Immigration & Politics & Govt & Surveillance & Terrorism & The Constitution & Tyranny

  Senate Leader Harry Reid says that getting votes for the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform will be “easy.” “I think we have 60 votes,” the Nevada Senator told the Las Vegas Sun.  “Remember, we start out at 55 Democrats. I think the most I’ll lose is two or three. Let’s say I wind up with [...]

• Our Indispensable Government - 23 May 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Columns

  Remember Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor’s fictional Minnesota town where “all the children are above average?” Well, too many members of Congress inhabit a Lake Wobegon government, where every government program is also above average — not just successful, but essential. Here is just one example: Among the many outrages that congressional Democrats have assigned to [...]

• Big Government Bipartisanship: Internet Tax Supported by Democrats, Republicans - 25 Apr 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Taxation

  The Senate right now is in the midst of creating an online sales tax via the Marketplace Fairness Act. Two amendments to the act — Reid (on Enzi’s behalf) amendment #741; and the Durbin amendment #745 to the Reid/Enzi amendment #741 — will be decided today and on Friday the Upper House will vote to [...]

• How the 16th and 17th Amendments Ushered the Era of Big Government - 05 Apr 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Columns & Taxation

  Two things were required to create a huge, centralized federal government.  First was the need to fund a massive administration.  Secondly, there needed to be the political will to usurp power from both the citizenry and the states.  With the passage of the 16th and 17th Amendments, the big government progressives got their wish. Most [...]

• GOP needs a ‘Hamiltonian’ jobs-creating agenda - 15 Feb 2013
  posted in Columns

  At the National Review Institute’s “Future of Conservatism” Summit last month, conservative thinkers and Republican rising stars delivered enlightenment and encouragement for Party of Lincoln in the Age of Obama. Yet, while the conservative movement’s flagship publication sought to cover the bases with a dazzle of panelists and topics, the event failed to elevate the [...]

• The President’s Miracle-Gro Government - 13 Feb 2013
  posted in Columns & Executive

  Of course he believes that we have a spending problem, President Obama assured us, immediately before a State of the Union address in which he called for — you guessed it — more spending. Like Saint Augustine praying “Lord grant me chastity and continence … but not yet,” President Obama paid lip service to the [...]

• Does the Republican Party have a future? - 11 Feb 2013
  posted in Columns & Principles

  The United States, from Day One, was a project about principles and ideals. The superpower that emerged and grew from the handful of colonists that began settling here was not the product of where those colonists happened to land, but of the ideals and principles in their heads and hearts, applied in how they lived [...]

• Who will protect us from our protectors? - 07 Feb 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Civil Liberties & Columns & Police State

  It didn’t take long for the megalomaniacs and opportunists in Washington to exploit the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, as a pretext for another attempt to annul the Second Amendment and expand their power. Never one to let a good crisis go to waste, President Obama signed a series of executive actions expanding federal gun control, [...]

• My country ‘tis of thee: time for Americans to pay attention. Part I of VII - 08 Jan 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Civil Liberties & Columns & Economy

  I have been troubled very much during most of the Obama administration by otherwise good people, some in my inner circle of family and friends, who choose not to be good Americans. They do not even take the time to pay attention, yet they have an opinion on everything. It is a phenomenon that I [...]