“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
by Ken Ivory In light of the wave of extra-constitutional actions taken by both parties in Washington over the past few years (e.g. Bush years: individual stimulus checks, Medicare Part D, Bear Stearns pseudo bailout, Fannie/Freddie bailout, TARP; Obama years:...
by Brian Roberts Social Justice for All It appears that there are two popular definitions of “social justiceâ€. One involves an individual who chooses to give freely to people in need; this one is historically referred to as charity. The other requires the use of...
by Chuck Baldwin Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal carried a story entitled “Obama Steps Up Confrontation.” It said in part, “On Thursday, the president challenged Republicans who planned to campaign on repealing his health-care bill with, ‘Go...
by Daryl Luna The New York Times reports: A panel of educators convened by the nation’s governors and state school superintendents proposed a uniform set of academic standards on Wednesday, laying out their vision for what all the nation’s public school children...
by Atlas The notion of what is “politically correct” to do at American universities is historically a new problem. Through most of the history of the American republic, the federal government directly funded neither education nor science. Indeed the...
Adapted from the book, Why Government Doesn’t Work America once was unique in all the history of the world. It wasn’t its natural resources, the character of its people, or its beauty that made it special. Other countries could boast of similar things. The...
