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• Inhofe: Obama, Benghazi, and the ‘I-word’ - 13 May 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Executive & Featured & Politics & Govt

  “I will seek to thwart this action by any means necessary, including but not limited to eliminating funding for implementation, defunding the White House, and even filing articles of impeachment,” said Representative Steve Stockman in regards to Barack Obama’s January 16 executive actions against the Second Amendment. Fast-forward. On Friday, May 10, Senator James Inhofe [...]

• Why We Must Act Now To Use the Constitution’s Amendment Process to Restore Fiscal Sanity - 10 May 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Columns & Debt & The Constitution

  My initial background was in the private sector, but I served many years in academia. I spent much of that time teaching constitutional law and constitutional history to aspiring lawyers. Four years ago, when I was still on a law school faculty, I was looking for a new topic to write on, and turned my [...]

• Reid Says Gun-Control Cloture Vote is Tonight - 09 Apr 2013
  posted in Gun Control & Videos

  Update 7:51 PM – Cloture filed, no vote tonight. Senate is adjourned until tomorrow at 9:20 am. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that he expects a vote to be taken on gun-control legislation this Thursday, should the Senate invoke cloture tonight. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office confirmed that this to take place [...]

• The Overhyped, Overblown, & Overly Politicized Sequester Fears - 28 Feb 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Economy & Spending

  Let’s be clear about one thing: The across-the-board spending cuts known as the “sequester” aren’t a doomsday scenario, or a meteorite that will blow up the economy. Teachers, FBI agents, and Border Patrol officers will not get fired tomorrow, when the sequester kicks in. The Internal Revenue Service will still be able to process your [...]

• 20% Content with Washington: Majority Says the Federal Government Threatens Their Personal Rights - 01 Feb 2013
  posted in 2013 & Big Gov & Civil Liberties

  As Barack Obama begins his second term in office, trust in the federal government remains mired near a historic low, while frustration with government remains high. And for the first time, a majority of the public says that the federal government threatens their personal rights and freedoms. The latest national survey by the Pew Research [...]

• The Age of Neo-Feudalism - 29 Jan 2013
  posted in Civil Liberties & Corruption

  “The shaping of the will of Congress and the choosing of the American president has become a privilege reserved to the country’s equestrian classes, a.k.a. the 20% of the population that holds 93% of the wealth, the happy few who run the corporations and the banks, own and operate the news and entertainment media, compose [...]

• Debt Ceiling and the 14th Amendment - 17 Jan 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Columns & Money & Spending

  In June of 2012, Nancy Pelosi proclaimed that the 14th Amendment makes the federal Debt Limit unconstitutional. According to the House Democrat Leader, Barack Obama could avoid the whole debt-ceiling showdown with Republicans by simply invoking the “obscure constitutional provision” in the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. According to Pelosi, the statutory borrowing [...]

• The Overrated Debt Ceiling - 16 Jan 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Columns & Economy & Spending

  Sometime in the next 30 to 60 days the federal government will reach the legal limit on its ability to borrow, setting up the next potential budget crisis in Washington. The debt is currently $16.4 trillion, technically in excess of the statutory limit, and the Treasury Department has been using “extraordinary measures,” such as delaying [...]

• Republican Congressmen must be accountable to conservatives Part III of IV - 29 Nov 2012
  posted in Columns & Legislative & Politics & Govt

  Parts One and Two Here and Here. Can you beat Santa Claus? Before moving to a discussion about How Republicans can win in the future, here are some additional thoughts about how Republicans can assure that Hispanics and Latinos can be counted in the Republican column in front of all other ethnicities. Even the Irish [...]

• Can You Trust the President, Congress or the Courts to Protect Your Privacy Rights? - 28 Nov 2012
  posted in Big Gov & Civil Liberties & Columns & Executive & Judicial & Legislative & Privacy & Property & Surveillance & The Constitution

  “The game is rigged, the network is bugged, the government talks double-speak, the courts are complicit and there’s nothing you can do about it.”—David Kravets, reporting for Wired Nothing you write, say, text, tweet or share via phone or computer is private anymore. This is the reality of the internet-dependent, plugged-in life of most Americans [...]