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Relevance: 11% Posted on: March 11, 2019
“A public debate on the merits of a measure can reveal its flaws,” the Bismarck Tribune calmly and reasonably editorialized yesterday, “and then we have to trust voters to do the right thing.” “Why are some legislators so afraid to allow North Dakota voters to decide what is in their…
Relevance: 11% Posted on: October 21, 2019
When Senator Bernie Sanders demands that the government “guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege,” does anyone think about how governments currently provide more basic services as rights? You have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in America — or so…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: March 22, 2012
A man murders 16 innocent people. Yet, I can’t help but feel sorry for him. The “him” in this case is Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, a husband and father of two. The 38-year-old signed up to serve in the military right after the 9/11 attacks and was trained as an…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: February 24, 2012
Congress finally acted in bipartisan fashion this past week, extending the 2 percent payroll tax cut through the rest of 2012. President Obama praised the effort, proclaiming, “It is amazing what happens when Congress focuses on doing the right thing, instead of just playing politics.” On Valentine’s Day, the country…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: January 2, 2012
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: June 10, 2014
Seventy years ago, no one stormed Normandy beach to give one man the power to imprison or to execute anyone he or she decides is an enemy of the state. Freedom cannot survive in a society where the leaders — those wielding the power of the state — are not…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: June 20, 2018
Who is Ed Snowden? And what does he deserve? On May 20, 2013, 29-year-old security specialist Edward Snowden flew to Hong Kong after leaving his job at an NSA facility in Hawaii; in early June he revealed thousands of classified NSA documents to journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Ewen…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: December 23, 2016
The festival of Hanukkah begins tomorrow at sundown; Christmas is on Sunday. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, a time to spend with family and friends, to appreciate what’s most important in life. And maybe even to forget about politics for a bit. But remember one political or…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: May 8, 2023
“Prosecutors are nearing a decision on whether to charge President Biden’s son Hunter with tax- and gun-related violations,” The Washington Post reports. Last October, the paper disclosed that, after a four-year investigation, federal agents had “gathered what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge him.” Hunter Biden’s failure to honestly…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: September 11, 2018
Paul Jacob Once upon a time, Corey Anthony Booker seemed like “a statesman.” As mayor of Newark, New Jersey, he talked to everybody, made deals, comported himself with dignity. He stood out from the pack; he was seen as an up-and-comer. Yet move him to the Senate and place him…