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Relevance: 16% Posted on: February 23, 2021
Should the federal government fund organizations working at the behest of China and the Chinese Communist Party? Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee have blocked an amendment sponsored by Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) that, in her words, would have banned funding of academic institutions “if they have a…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: June 27, 2023
Last Sunday, former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, now with her own MSNBC program, asked Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) about packing the Supreme Court. Rep. Pelosi’s response was, shall we say, telling. “It’s been over 150 years since we’ve had an expansion of the court,” Pelosi said. “It was…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: February 4, 2016
Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky, suspended his presidential campaign yesterday. He took fifth place in Iowa, but garnered just four percent of the vote. I’ll miss him. “Ours has been a unique voice in this race,” the senator rightly declared, “one that says Big Government threatens Americans from…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: November 17, 2017
I know people who are trying to set up their own countries. Folks at the Seasteading Institute, run by Milton Friedman’s grandson, Patri, are preparing for a floating civilization. But that scheme depends on homesteading the open sea. Land would be easier, no? Trouble is, there is not much land…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: April 25, 2013
Vancouver, Washington is in one way just like Washington, D.C. . . . or anywhere else: Issues of “who gets to decide” and “out-of-control government” enliven both burgs. I live near D.C. The people of Vancouver live just north of Portland, Oregon, across the mighty Columbia River. Their “twin” city…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: June 7, 2018
Paul Jacob Last week’s most consequential story was not covered by a single television network or cable outlet. Nor was it discussed on talk radio. The major newspapers took no note of it, and not a single voice in the universe of blogs and news sites on the worldwide web…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: September 26, 2019
On September 26, 1786, protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts, beginning a military standoff and ushering in Shays’ Rebellion. This anti-tax revolt spurred a dramatic reaction on the part of the day’s politicians, including their attempts to reform the Articles of Confederation and to figure out better ways…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: December 16, 2018
principle: prin·ci·ple /ˈprinsəpəl / noun 1. a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning. This week Nancy Pelosi showed she would do almost anything to get back on top. Including . . . the right…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: April 20, 2014
It's an old trick: make the exception clauses completely transform the principles involved. In Colorado, a politician is trying mightily to transform the nature of citizen involvement in state government. She thinks she's an angel, of course. But if you think of her as a devil, I'd completely understand. Click…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: May 20, 2016
A few days ago, the Barna Group released the results of its latest poll, asking “Americans whether capitalism or socialism align better with the teachings of Jesus,” explains The Hollywood Reporter. The results are that “socialism won 24 percent compared to 14 percent, with the rest answering ‘neither’ or ‘not…