Today in history, on March 30, 1822, the territory of Florida was officially established by Congress. The region was extracted through a diplomatic arrangement with Spain wherein the United States ...
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The Missouri Sheriffs' Association is aggressively lobbying state senators to gut the recently House-passed Second Amendment Preservation Act, rendering it worthless in practice. Read on to learn the 4 ways ...
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Although Social Security was instituted in 1935 as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, most Americans are ignorant of its basic operation and true nature ...
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Herein lies the secret to our nullification strategy. States don't have to actually do anything. They just have to stop helping the feds enforce federal laws or implement federal programs ...
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During ratification, advocates of the Constitution assured the public that Congress’s power over congressional elections would be extremely limited. They said the proviso was designed only for emergencies ...
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The Fourth Amendment was written to prevent this. Under the Constitution, the government may not seek punishment for silence, surveil for beliefs or charge for crimes not committed ...
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Today in history, on Mar 18, 1766, British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, after months of protest from the colonies and British merchants ...
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Prior to last year’s stimulus-fueled $3.13 trillion deficit, the U.S. government had only run annual deficits over $1 trillion four times, all during the Great Recession ...
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In this post I offer some guidance as to when an initial resort to extraneous evidence is necessary to establish the text’s presumptive meaning ...
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The U.S. government has already gone beyond the limits of “sustainable” deficits. The question is whether or not the Fed can keep doing this indefinitely. And the answer is no ...
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The Constitution specifically separates the power to make war from the power to wage war ...
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Republican hypocrisy in claiming to care about spending and debt only when a Democrat sits in the Oval Office is one reason why Democrats can so easily disregard debt ...
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