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Promises, Promises
by Laurence Vance, LewRockwell.com How hard is it to position yourself to the right of Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi? This is all the House Republicans did recently when they released...
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Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing?
by Connor Boyack, Utah Tenth Amendment Center photo credit: swamysk On February 19 of this year, Utah’s Senate President and House Speaker co-authored an op-ed for the Washington Post in which they...
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What does it really mean?
by Michael Maharrey The sound of thundering elephant feet first began to resonate right here in the Bluegrass State. Republican Rand Paul easily beat Democrat Jack Conway by an 11 point margin in the...
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More Republican Pledge Hypocrisy
by Laurence Vance, LewRockwell.com The “Pledge to America” recently unveiled by House Republicans is more Republican gobbledygook. Republican promises to cut waste, fraud, abuse, and earmarks, and...
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Republicans Propose Obamacare Lite. Or Worse.
by Michael F. Cannon, CATO Institute During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised legislation that “fully repeals ObamaCare.” Monday night, the Republican leadership of the House of...
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Hamilton: The Liar
Republicans unveiled their tax plan in September to mixed reviews. That was to be expected. It hasn’t gotten any better in recent weeks. Americans generally want lower taxes. They also want the...
View ArticleGOP Tax Plan Would Not Shrink the Size of the Federal Government
The middle class is not getting tax relief under the GOP tax plan currently under consideration. It’s getting big government on a credit card. This is yet another indication that the size and scope of...
View ArticleHas the Tea Party Sold Out to Big-Government Republicans?
by Ron Paul The recently-passed big-spending budget deal’s failure to generate significant opposition from the “tea party” has led some to pen obituaries for this once-powerful movement. These...
View ArticleObamacare: Will States do the Job that Congressional Republicans Have Failed...
For years, Republicans in Congress promised they would get rid of Obamacare. We’re still waiting. Now it’s looking more and more like pressure and concrete action from the states might just accomplish...
View ArticleThe Republican Threat to Your Gun Rights
With Republicans in control in Washington D.C., many Second Amendment activists assumed their right to keep and bear arms was safe. They’re not. When one political party controls the House, Senate, and...
View ArticleRespecting the Constitution Only When it’s Convenient
by Jacob SullumThe Republican platform unveiled last week notes in passing that “the Constitution assigns the federal government no role in local education.” Yet the same document offers opinions on...
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Beware the Stealth RINOS!
by Jeff MatthewsYou heard it right. Itâ€s bad enough Congress is chock-full of RINOâ€s. We now have to be on guard against the new Stealth RINOâ€sLike many reading this article, I have been through...
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Republicans’ Responsibility for Socialism’s Comeback
by Ron PaulAccording to a recent Reuters/Ipsos survey, 70 percent of Americans, including about 50 percent of Republicans, support Medicare for all, the latest incarnation of single-payer health care....
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When “Good” Is the Enemy of the Constitution
I’ve been hard on Donald Trump — just like I was hard on Barack Obama — just like I will be hard on the next occupant of the Oval Office.This has gotten me into hot water with Trump supporters.I...
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Ten Bad Reasons To Eliminate Federal Funding for the NEA
What does a twenty-year-old article tell us about conservatives?Plenty.The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) “is an independent federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative...
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20 Things Republicans Could Have Done but Didn’t
Another Republican majority has come and gone. And with nothing to show for it.Although Republicans controlled both Houses of Congress under a Democratic president during two years of Harry Truman’s...
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Too Much Bipartisanship in Washington
by Ron PaulWashington is once again gripped by the specter of a government shutdown, as Congress and President Trump negotiate an end-of-year spending deal. A main issue of contention is funding for...
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Trump Administration Spends U.S. to May Budget Deficit Record
If you were thinking maybe federal government spending might slow down a bit after the national debt crossed the $22 trillion mark – well, it didn’t. Last month, the federal budget deficit came in at...
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Top 5 Ways to Fail at Eliminating Obamacare
Even though millions of people want to keep Barack Obama’s Health Care “Reform” law, millions more want it gone. With the June Supreme Court ruling allowing the mandate to continue – and most...
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Why Republicans Are Powerless against Socialism
If we are to believe the Republicans, they are all that is holding back the forces of socialism from taking over the United States and replacing a free and capitalist society with an authoritarian and...
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Democrats Ignore Trump’s Real Violations
Last week the latest Democratic Party attempt to remove President Trump from office – impeachment over Trump allegedly holding up an arms deal to Ukraine – flopped. Just like “Russiagate” and the...
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Conservatives Believe in Federalism, Except When They Don’t
When the Constitution was adopted by the states in 1789, a federal system of government was established. Federalism is the division of power between the national and state governments. Articles I...
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Democrats, Republicans, and the Constitution
In July 2017, after President Donald Trump had been in office for less than six months, Congressmen Al Green (D-Calif.) and Brad Sherman (D-Tex.) introduced in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of...
View ArticleDebt is the Real Pandemic
According to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest “Update on the Budget Outlook,” this year’s $3.3 trillion federal deficit is not just three times larger than last year: it is the largest...
View ArticleConservative Hypocrisy on Foreign Aid
After initially threatening to veto it, Donald Trump signed into law a $2.3 trillion, 5,593-page spending bill that no member of Congress had read. The “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021”...
View ArticleMississippi Ag Commissioner Uses Constitution as an Excuse to Violate the...
Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gipson (R) doesn’t understand his obligations under the Constitution. Gipson doesn’t want to run a state medical marijuana program. During a radio interview,...
View ArticleRepublicans Miss the Real Issue Regarding TSA Scanners
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is back in the news again, and, as usual, it is not because the agency did something noteworthy. The TSA was established by the Aviation and...
View ArticleYes, Sales Taxation is Also Theft
A group of House Republicans is supporting legislation that would replace federal income, payroll, estate, and gift taxes with a 30 percent national sales tax. The bill also eliminates the Internal...
View ArticleWhat Republicans Aren’t Saying about Food Stamps
According to Democrats and their allies at progressive and liberal outlets, millions of Americans are going to go to bed hungry or starving to death because the extra food-stamp benefits they were...
View ArticleRepublicans Fiscally Irresponsible Act
The political and financial class breathed a sigh of relief when Congress passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023. The bill suspends the debt ceiling for two years, thus avoiding the...
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