Big Government Is The Borg, And Resistance Isn’t Futile
Checks and balances are definitely not President Obama’s style. So we shouldn’t be surprised when he pulls another executive order out of his well-stocked hip pocket any time Congress or the Supreme...
View ArticleLiberals Will Never Fulfill Dr. King’s Dream Of A Race-Blind Society
Over the weekend there was a short “debate” between Jesse Jackson and Ben Carson. Within the exchange lies the real issue behind Ferguson. According to the Left, the economic hardships blacks face are...
View ArticleConservatives Are Fighting A Battle Of Survival Against President Obama’s...
At stake in the fight over President Obama’s executive action on immigration could be the future voting patterns of Hispanics—not just of the five million or so illegal immigrants he expects to...
View ArticleAre Hobbits For Hippies? Or, How Would J.R.R. Tolkien Vote?
“The Battle of the Five Armies,” the final installment of “The Hobbit” film trilogy, opened last week, and online boards are buzzing with discussions of Peter Jackson’s casting decisions, his use or...
View ArticleThank You For Not Banning Smoking
My grandpa—my father’s father—smoked cigarettes from the time he was about nine years old until he was into his sixties. I was five in 1995 when his doctor told him he had to quit or he’d likely die in...
View ArticleKick ‘Em While They’re Up, Kick ‘Em While They’re Down: The Return of the Gas...
Here’s one of my favorite stories about how the mind of a government official works. A few years ago, I was in a grocery store in Charlottesville when I overheard a conversation between two shoppers,...
View ArticleDear GOP: Big Government’s Problems Extend To Defense Spending
Over the next 20 months, a clown-car-full of Republican politicians will vie for their party’s presidential nomination. As the candidates crisscross the nation, each will undoubtedly call for smarter,...
View ArticleThe Founders Didn’t Fail—We Are Failing The Founders
Conservatives are understandably depressed in the wake of Speaker Boehner and the Republican-controlled Congress’ predictable caving on executive amnesty. Let me stop right there by emphasizing that I...
View ArticleCronyism Doesn’t Just Infect Markets—It Infects Culture
What do you do if you’re pursuing unpopular interests that are contrary to the public good? How do you force change in a democratic republic when you can’t win everything you want through open debate?...
View ArticleWhat Else Is Down Jenner’s Anti-Reality Rabbit Hole?
Not too long ago, in 2013, a convicted rapist received a mere 30-day sentence because, according to Montana judge Todd Baugh, his 14-year-old victim was “older than her chronological age.” Public...
View ArticleTo The Federal Government, Love Taxpayers
Adapted from Taylor Swift’s Tumblr post, “To Apple, Love Taylor.” I write this to explain why I’ll be holding back taxes in 2015 from the federal government’s Internal Revenue Service. I feel this...
View ArticleAngry Taxpayers, Not Stupid People, Are Backing Donald Trump
Like so many of my fellow Americans, I felt helpless as I sat in front of the television in the fall of 2008, watching Barack Obama become the 44th president of the United States. I had high hopes for...
View Article‘You’re Fired’ Aims At Washington
I never thought reality TV was going to work out well. If a show couldn’t afford a good script and good actors, why should anyone watch it? But millions did, and here we are, wondering what Donald...
View ArticleWe Can’t Reform Our Justice System Without Lifting Families
Common-sense criminal sentencing reform is gaining momentum. Presidential candidate Jeb Bush and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins are among the signers of the Right on Crime Statement of...
View ArticleProstitution is Just Another Vice—So Legalize It
During the last five years or so, the war on drugs has gone from an issue only spoken about by fringe libertarians and on wild frontiers of the Left and Right to one that nearly every mainstream...
View ArticleWastebook: 7 Ridiculous Ways The Feds Blew Your Tax Dollars Last Year
The feds spent millions last year putting college students into fat suits, filming monkeys running on a treadmill, and attempting to get hipsters to quit smoking. Those projects are only three of 100...
View ArticlePatriotic Americans Need Not Apply To Fight ISIS
Check out the following two recruitment pitches on YouTube. (I challenge you to watch all of the second one.) This video is from the Islamic State, while this video is from USAjobs.gov, the federal...
View ArticleWhat To Do Now That Most Americans Hate Big Government
Over the last six years, Democrats have been on a Washington power bender, taking power from the states and giving it to the federal government. The Left has used hot-button issues such as state bans...
View Article5 Times Trump Told You He Loves Big Government
We all know them: friends and relatives, even media personalities, who we thought were hardline conservatives are now swooning over Donald Trump, the next great savior of the Republic. Over...
View ArticleObama Takes Childcare Choice Away From Poor Parents
The Obama administration is at it again—subverting the plain language of the law to achieve policy goals Congress has blocked. This time, the president is seeking to twist the massive Child Care and...
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