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Relevance: 27% Posted on: January 13, 2016
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: January 13, 2021
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: January 13, 2022
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: September 28, 2020
The headline states that a “USC Professor Who Used Chinese Word That Sounds Like English Slur” was “ ‘Not Dismissed Nor Suspended.’ ” Sure. The professor was “only” removed from the course he was teaching. Greg Patton, who teaches business communication at the University of Southern California, had been telling…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: January 13, 2017
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: January 13, 2018
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: December 5, 2012
Around the country, cities are going ahead with trolley and streetcar projects, as well as light rail. I just returned from Seattle. Capitol Hill was torn apart at huge expense — all to add a streetcar line to cover a stretch where no buses now run. Trains are cool; trolleys…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: October 2, 2012
Washington State has a long history of popular antagonism to political parties. For years, the state enforced an open primary, which meant that Republicans could vote in Democratic primaries and Democrats in Republican primaries. This was very popular, because it led to widespread strategic voting. Well, that’s a euphemism. In…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: July 2, 2019
“Kamala Harris is *not* an American Black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican,” tweeted Ali Alexander, a self-described black American activist, after the California Senator’s presidential debate performance. “I’m so sick of people robbing American Blacks (like myself) of our history.”* On Friday, Donald Trump, Jr., retweeted Alexander’s tweet…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 13, 2023
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 13, 2024
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: April 25, 2012
North Carolina, like many states, licenses all sorts of businesses activity, especially enterprises related to medicine. That’s why the state’s Board of Dietetics and Nutrition is gearing up to jail a blogger. According to the Carolina Journal Online, Chapter 90, Article 25 of the North Carolina General Statutes makes it…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: February 6, 2013
Oakland, California, serves as home to over a third of a million human inhabitants, but the city has made room for a very different denizen, the gnome. The gnomes began appearing to observant pedestrians as painted figures on pieces of wood screwed onto utility poles. At ground level. The gnomes…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: August 13, 2009
According to Ballotpedia.org, a wiki-based website created by the Citizens in Charge Foundation to track ballot initiatives, referendums and recalls, this year voters have already launched more than twice as many efforts to recall public officials than occurred all of last year. In Flint, Michigan, voters were set to recall…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: September 29, 2010
Two old words, newly relevant: Federalism and nullification. Last Sunday, on Townhall.com, I noted ten state ballot measures to watch. Third on my list was Colorado’s Amendment 63: If swing-state voters in Colorado join Missouri voters, who in August enacted a state measure protecting citizens from being forced to purchase…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: March 21, 2023
This March in San Francisco, hundreds of Tibetans and their supporters rallied to protest the government of China and to commemorate the Tibetan uprising of 1959. “As we are in a free nation,” one of the protesters, Lobsang Chodon, told the Epoch Times, “we have the rights to rally and…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: April 30, 2015
What can we make of the leftist hatred of the Koch brothers, David and his elder brother Charles? For their support of libertarian and Tea Party causes, and a few Republican candidates, the left doesn’t just demonize them, the left singles them out. I suppose a reasonable person could blanch…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: November 10, 2020
In a nation divided over color — red for Republicans and blue for Democrats — voters united around the country to pass and defeat measures at the ballot box. No grayness in the results, as in the presidential election. The returns are black-or-white. Before the election, I highlighted Citizens in…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: August 24, 2015
The over-riding reason to end the War on Drugs is to re-establish the rule of law in this country. From Nixon and Reagan to the present time, America has vastly increased the population of prison inmates, many of them for drug offenses. The “land of the free” shouldn’t boast a…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: September 1, 2015
Last week, I warned of marijuana legalization. Not that I’m against it. But how much will actual freedom be increased? Note: I’m not bemoaning, as one activist friend argued, that “if you can’t toke up and celebrate in public when it passes, it’s not legalization.” One cannot now legally smoke…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: June 28, 2012
Stockton, California, had seen a flurry of new home projects right up till the mortgage market crash. But, boy, did that come to a screeching halt. The crash led to foreclosures, which led to lower revenues from property taxes for the city. And though the city tried some spending cuts,…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 27, 2017
A friend, who loves to talk football, sometimes boasts that his team “crushed” the other team, gaining more yards and rolling up more first downs, before dejectedly acknowledging that his team didn’t score as many points as its opponent. They lost. When a Democrat gloats that Donald Trump lost the…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 14, 2013
It was the thirteenth day of the century’s thirteenth year, yesterday, and the worst I got was a cold. Meanwhile, the Russian government is trying to stop a triskaidekaphobic panic. Russian media folk have been making much of Apophis, the near-Earth asteroid that will come within spitting distance on a…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: June 25, 2021
Now hold on just a minute. I’m not one of those crazies who thinks the government is nothing better than a den of thieves constantly looking for new ways to steal from us. So don’t accuse me of making such an accusation. Please. But, gee whiz, it sure makes the…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 12, 2019
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 13, 2020
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: April 25, 2023
The city council of Oakland, California just voted 7-1 to end the town’s pandemic-rationalized moratorium on eviction for nonpayment of rent. But it’s not over yet. The moratorium will linger on until July 15. Three years is supposedly insufficient time for tenants to gird themselves to again honor the contract…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: June 30, 2015
Policemen who perpetrate acts like those I am about to describe should be imprisoned. That’s not an anti-police statement, it’s a pro-law-and-order one. Anybody who vandalizes the property of innocent people and pointlessly terrorizes them, whether flashing a badge as prelude or not, should be arrested, prosecuted, convicted and punished.…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: June 16, 2014
“Incumbents Fear Cantor’s Loss Will Fill Tea Party’s Sails” is the headline. Before a few days ago, GOP establishmentarians felt that they had finally quelled the Tea Party notion that Republicans should be more than 2 to 4 percent different from Democrats on whether the country should suffer a socialist…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: September 24, 2014
Some political opponents win your respect, even if not your agreement. Others … well, not so much. Earlier this week, a publication called Arkansas Business editorialized against Issue 3 on the Natural State’s November ballot, calling it “a freakish hybrid, a gambit to trick voters into expanding term limits for…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: September 27, 2015
According to the experts, any day now a civil war will break out in California. Click on over to Townhall to consider the mother of all attribution errors! Then come back here for context: Politifact: Fact-checking the link between climate change and ISIS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: July 3, 2016
Declarations of . . . regret? Partisans of Big Government will go quite a long ways to defend said modes of governance. See Townhall, this weekend, and then come back here: Washington Post: “Brexit is a reminder that some things just shouldn’t be decided by referendum,” by Emily Badger New Republic: “The…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: June 3, 2014
A young man wrote a manifesto and went on a killing spree. This murderer, Elliot Rodger, ended up taking the lives of six people, seven if you include his own death. (I’ll wait for the coroner’s report to see whether it was self-inflicted or the result of return fire.) The…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: March 20, 2024
Trying to find justice in the justice system is sometimes like panning for gold in a dry river. But what ho, hey, we’ve found some. Victoria Taft points us to “a federal judge who believes in justice” . . . or a reasonable facsimile thereof. Recently, California District Court Judge…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: October 11, 2023
Kindness; generosity; aid — even these need defending from government. In “Performing Charity Is a First Amendment Right,” C. J. Ciaramella writes about the difficulties people have had in feeding the poor in their towns and cities. The problem is not lack of charity — unless you mean the lack…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: November 22, 2015
Government is supposed to defend our rights, including rights to property. Too often, our police departments merely steal. Play criminal themselves. Click on over to Townhall.com for the full story. Come back here for more reading . . . and viewing: Institute for Justice – TAKEN: New Report Finds Civil…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: February 20, 2023
After Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton legally challenged how several states conducted the 2020 election, dozens of lawyers submitted complaints. To the state bar. Their idea: disbar the Republican officeholder for daring to oppose the current Democratic narrative about “election denialism.” The Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel dismissed those initial…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: November 18, 2021
It’s a cliché of politics that the Republican Party is The Party of the Rich while the Democrats serve the Poor and Downtrodden. But were that true, why so many Democratic billionaires? And why is President Biden’s Build Back Better legislation offering the top income quintile a tax cut worth…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: September 9, 2022
The proposed tax was very popular. In San Francisco. It polled at nearly 75 percent in favor. But it possessed a fatal flaw. And worse. The fatal flaw? The numbers didn’t add up. Organizers spent nearly half a million bucks developing and promoting and getting the petition signatures to place…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: October 25, 2016
That grin. That cackle. Please: No more! While there is much to be said against Donald Trump, and I’ve said some of it, the sheer unlikability and . . . distastefulness . . . of Hillary Clinton is . . . precedented. Historically, she reminds me of two past Republican…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: September 26, 2016
In a Townhall.com column last January, I argued that politicians weren’t “stupid,” as Mr. Trump had loudly proclaimed — to few objections. The problem is worse: too many politicians lack honesty and integrity. They’re in the politics biz for their own lucrative ends. Six weeks ago, I declared — again,…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: October 8, 2012
Americans are obviously divided on the current presidential race. We disagree, too, on a whole range of social and economic issues. But we remain firmly united when it comes to one straightforward political reform: term limits. Since 1990, when voters in California, Colorado and Oklahoma passed the first statewide ballot…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: January 18, 2012
Wisconsin Democrats turned in more than a million signatures yesterday to force a recall election for Republican Gov. Scott Walker. That’s far more than the 540,000 signatures required by law. State officials will now check the signatures and, barring tremendous irregularities, will set an election six to ten weeks after…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: November 3, 2015
If Ohioans pass Issue 3 today, the days of pot prohibition will disappear like the smoke from a wild night’s last bong hit. That’s sorta what Nick Gillespie of Reason argued yesterday, anyway. “[I]f marijuana can be legalized in Ohio,” he wrote, “it can — and will be — legalized…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: March 18, 2016
Has the War on Drugs actually, finally, made some progress? Well, yes . . . but, really, no. “Legal marijuana may be doing at least one thing that a decades-long drug war couldn’t,” explains Christopher Ingraham in The Washington Post’s Wonkblog, “taking a bite out of Mexican drug cartels’ profits.” Certainly…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: September 12, 2016
Yesterday, around the country, flags were flown at half-staff, a sad acknowledgement of the atrocities on 9/11/2001. In preparation for the 15th anniversary, students at a California college put up signs, emblazoned with the motto “Never Forget.” At least one faculty member took it upon herself to rip the signage…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: September 23, 2022
After the spectacular failures of the COVID response, “the experts” appear to be on a roll. That is, they are once again not “following the science” but being led by politics, ideology, and the madness of crowds. The big issues right now demonstrating mass folly on a societal level? Aside…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: September 12, 2012
It’s the silly season in politics, that special time when politicians pretend they like us better than the special interests that fund their campaigns. They bombard us with bold and expansive promises of their incredible abilities; they pledge their future fidelity to principle. From bitter experience, oft repeated, we know…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: April 23, 2014
Spring is in the air, and old men’s hearts turn to thoughts of . . . law. Yes, Supreme Court Decision Season has begun. Yesterday, two decisions were handed down. In Schuette v. BAMN, Justice Kennedy “announced” the decision to reverse a previous court’s determination overruling a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: July 2, 2013
This is the season for major Supreme Court decisions, and a fine time to rethink the union’s constitution — and the document, too, which we capitalize: The Constitution of the United States of America. Now is especially propitious, in that recent decisions by the Robed Nine are solidifying a social…