Tag Archives | big-government

What We Need: A Shrinking Ship

The stark reality is that the United States is functionally bankrupt – the behemoth needs to shrink.

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You Can Fool All the People … Yeah, Pretty Much All the Time

Observing our two party system in the United States, it strikes me that it’s much like professional wrestling – choreographed combat.

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Trading freedom for safety’s illusion

Modern American’s seem to have lost sight of essential truths clear to the country’s founders more than 200 years ago.

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The Founders Wanted Big Government? I Object.

Were the Framers “nationalists” who all along, despite their own words to the contrary, secretly intended to establish in the original Constitution a federal leviathan?

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More Republican Pledge Hypocrisy

Republicans are such hypocrites that even while they preach smaller and less intrusive government they pass legislation to increase the size and scope of government.

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What does it really mean?

While Republicans trumpet their victory, they would do well to ground themselves in an important reality. This election was not a ringing endorsement of the GOP. It was instead a repudiation of progressive ideology.

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Election Results: A Boost to Big Government

There is no lesser of evils between the two major parties.

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Sticking to the Rules

The Constitution provides a framework, the rulebook if you will, for government. Each clause, each principle, was carefully crafted for a specific reason.

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Fear-Mongering from the Left and the Right

It’s time for both sides to start imagining what they fear most: What if government did nothing?

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EduJobs Bill Further erodes Federalism

In typical spaghetti bowl approach the national government has found a way to tie three seemingly different areas into a single bill easily marketed as a way to help teachers and children across the country. Who would not want to help teachers and children?

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Only Our State Legislatures Can Save Us Now!

When we look at the source of the problem, most every problem in America today stems from a failure to respect and understand sovereignty: national, state, local and individual.

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