Federal Power
The Feds Need the States to Do Almost Everything
During the run-up to the 2013 federal government shutdown, the National Governors Association made a startling admission: the federal government depends on the states to do pretty much everything it does. As the government was threatening to “shut down,”...
States Must Check DC’s “Fourth Branch”
Every election cycle, the press drives America to obsession with the rise and fall of politicians in the District of Columbia. Many pin their hopes for change on these individuals. Even the best among them, however, become mere speedbumps to the destruction of our...
Authoritarians Drunk on Power
It is time to recalibrate the government. For years now, we have suffered the injustices, cruelties, corruption and abuse of an entrenched government bureaucracy that has no regard for the Constitution or the rights of the citizenry. By โgovernment,โ Iโm not referring...
Lessons in Centralized Power: Federal Policy Facilitated Forced Sterilization of Native American Women
Most people reflexively believe the federal government protects the interests of minorities. After all, the feds gave us the Civil Rights Acts and ended segregation – so the narrative goes. But in truth, the federal government has a pretty abysmal record when it...