The Bribery of the Five Percent

Bribery is the lifeblood of democracy. The President of these United States, putatively known as the Leader of the Free World, is chosen not for his commitments to liberty, constitutional rule of law or limited government. Instead we bear embarrassing witness to Mitt...

Freeloaders, Spongers & Takers

“Extreme concentration of income is incompatible with real democracy.” Paul Krugman “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”Barack Hossein Obama “The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all...

My Three Pauls

It is said that the falling off a ladder is less a problem than one’s ultimate meeting with the ground below. So it is with democracy unrestrained by constitutional charter. The absurd debt incurred annually by Congressmen gaming re-election prospects will be less...

On Governors and Liberty

State governors are the battered wives of the Federal system. Given a hefty annual allowance from Washington, D.C., they are content to suffer blow after blow to the  State sovereignty guaranteed by the Constitution. This is true of Democrats and Republicans alike....

Arizona Takes One on the Chin

The enthusiasm by which the Supreme Court eviscerated Arizona’s immigration law (known as S.B. 1070) yesterday should surprise few observers. Pittsburgh Pirates fans would noisily protest if the umpire arrived sporting a Phillies jersey. That the self-appointed...