Category: Government & Politics

Park Rangers
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Privatizing the National Park Service

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This recommendation will anger NPS employees.

Levin’s Liberty Amendments: Struble’s Critique, Part Three
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Levin’s Liberty Amendments: Struble’s Critique, Part Three

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Go to Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5 You can’t manufacture a silk purse from a sow’s ear. With Mark Levin’s powerful first chapter we enthusiastically agree: the archipelago of Federal pigpens positioned around the country and headquartered in Washington, D.C. is breeding a boorish nation. The solutions proposed in Levin’s recent book, […]

The Real Deficit’s in Leadership
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The Real Deficit’s in Leadership

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“Man, this government shutdown is making America look foolish.” “I agree with you. I am certainly no fan of the shutdown. But the division in Washington is a reflection of the division in our representative republic.” “I think it’s a reflection of a total lack of leadership among our politicians in Washington.” “You speak the […]

Government Shuts Down Catholic Services on Navy Base
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Government Shuts Down Catholic Services on Navy Base

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In the wake of the government shutdown, despite provisions in the Pay Our Military Act, Catholics at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia are being denied religious services. The Catholic priest who serves this community has been prohibited from even volunteering to celebrate Holy Mass without pay, and was told that if he violated […]

Social Security Trust Fund
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SSA: Say What?

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Who’s zooming whom?

Divided America Flag
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Time to Step Up? Two Americas, One Future: The Choice is Yours

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To which America do you belong?

Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, January 16, 2010
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Will Another Presidential Bifurcation Be Coming Our Way?

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“Personal approval” vs. “Job approval”?

Trapped in a Wall of Papers
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From Problemtown to Solutionville

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This is not a nation where people are left alone anymore.

Levin’s "Liberty Amendments:" Struble’s Critique, Part Two
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Levin’s “Liberty Amendments:” Struble’s Critique, Part Two

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Links to part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 After seven weeks on the market, Mark Levin’s blockbuster book, Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic (Threshold Editions, Simon & Schuster, 2013) remains in the top ten of the New York Times bestseller list.  For the first three weeks after debut (August 13th) it stood […]

Broken Piggy Bank
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The Path To Prosperity Or Bankruptcy? Staggering Facts On America’s Rising Debt

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Real government spending has increased almost twice as fast as government revenue.

Signs at Chicago "Gay" Pride Parade 2010
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An Unapologetic Defense of the Virtue of Intolerance

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Christ warned that all those that live Godly will suffer persecution.

Refuse to Render Unto Caesar
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Refuse to Render Unto Caesar

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[R]ender therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s (Matthew 21, KJV). It’s been 18 months since Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced a new requirement that all U.S. employers must provide insurance coverage for birth control, including abortifacients, at no cost to their […]

Cutting Taxes
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Tax Cuts and Deficits: Fact vs. Fiction

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The main reason for most deficits: excessive spending.

Cutting Taxes
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The Progressive Crusade Against Tax Cuts

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FDR, for the record, despised Andrew Mellon.

Firearms Sales
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The Central Planning Solution to Evil

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Moral agency is individual. You can’t outsource it to a government.

Living Our Lives "Under God"
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Living Our Lives “Under God”

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The American Humanist Association has renewed the efforts of some atheists to remove the words “under God” from our Pledge of Allegiance. The organization argued recently in the Massachusetts Supreme Court that the inclusion of these words is a violation of atheists’ religious liberty and equality. In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway claimed that, […]

Patterns and Incidents
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Patterns and Incidents

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Incidents take place all around us, but patterns have to be articulated.

Benghazi Attack
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Reflections on Benghazi

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The rhetoric of President Obama is hollow on this issue.

"Thank goodness our government hasn't taken over any pencil companies yet."
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“Thank goodness our government hasn’t taken over any pencil companies yet.”

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A Pencil’s Point Now is a good time to revisit the 1958 essay in which Leonard Read examined how a pencil is made — and how it is miraculous that a pencil is made at all. The standard pencil begins when a cedar is cut down. Ropes and gear tug it onto the bed of […]

Obama and Post-American World
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Big Fat Red Line

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The left has a long history of marrying incompetence and malice.

Calling all Catholics: Defend Your Brothers and Sisters in Syria
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Calling all Catholics: Defend Your Brothers and Sisters in Syria

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Catholics are supposed to be the champions of human rights. We are 25 percent of the U.S. population, yet Barack Obama was twice elected president and he wages numerous kinds of war both here and abroad. As Congress weighs Obama’s plan to bomb the Syrian people, Catholics and all Americans need to understand what’s at […]

Weekly Wits: 9/6/13
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Weekly Wits: 9/6/13

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We Need to Stop Eating the Marshmallows
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We Need to Stop Eating the Marshmallows

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It seems there might be a lesson here for America.

Why Obamacare Is Good for Me
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Why Obamacare Is Good for Me

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I hate to say it, but ObamaCare has been good for me. Now, I know our economy is still struggling — Gallup says the unemployment rate just jumped to nearly 9 percent — and I know ObamaCare uncertainty is making many employers wary of hiring. But I also know that new opportunities exist for people […]