Categories
Constitution
- A ‘living document’
- A complex system of checks and balances
- A plea for Constitutional literacy on Constitution Day
- An association of states
- Anything called a ‘program’ is unconstitutional
- Can the real Constitution be restored?
- Challenging the separation of powers
- Consequences for Congress
- Constitutional liberties are being jettisoned
- Constitutional limits
- Death and taxes
- Democracy is a threat to the American republic
- Destroying our protections
- Enemies of the people
- Enumerated powers
- Equality under the law
- Federal forces
- Federal jurisdiction is limited
- General Welfare
- Government expands at will
- Government power is limited
- Hold onto the Constitution
- Honor thy Founding Father
- How people constitute a government
- How to make the Constitution work again
- Importance of our Constitution
- Interpreting our Constitution
- Law enforcement by the executive branch
- Lawlessness breeds more lawlessness
- Letter from President Donald J. Trump to the Speaker of the House of Representatives
- Liberty lost
- Limited government
- Limits on general welfare
- Limits on presidential power
- Limits, not license
- Living document or dead letter?
- Not a democracy
- Not in the Constitution? Not legal.
- Oath of office
- Observe the Constitution, period
- One-world governance vs. the Constitution
- Our government is above the law
- Our greatest source of security
- Preserve the Bill of Rights
- Preserve the rule of law
- Proscribing Constitutional rights
- Protect the Constitution
- Protected by the Constitution
- Real liberty
- Repugnant to the Constitution
- Right-sizing government
- Separation of powers
- Separation of powers
- Several by Sobran
- States are sovereign bodies
- States’ rights
- Study the Constitution
- Succession
- Tenth Amendment
- The Bill of Rights
- The Constitution does not protect us
- The Constitution is supreme
- The Constitution is the benchmark
- The Constitution is the law of the land
- The Constitution is the standard
- The Constitution stops democracy
- The Tenth Amendment
- The basis of our republic
- The first ten Amendments
- The growth of the General Welfare and Commerce clauses
- The historical background of the Constitution
- The judiciary as saboteurs
- The law of the land
- The logic of the Constitution in two sentences
- The people are masters
- The people are the rightful masters
- The purpose of the Bill of Rights
- The sacred obligation of the Constitution
- The thirteen States
- Two wrongs cannot make a right
- Unconstitutional is invalid
- Undelegated powers
- Unlimited and unconstitutional
- Usurping our sovereignty
- Violating the Constitution
- Violating their oaths
- War of the poor against the rich
- Wartime expansions and losses
- Where to place your confidence
- Why a republic?
- Why we need the Constitution
Obamacare
Second Amendment
- ‘Gun control’ and murder
- ‘Gun control’ has not worked
- A right of the individual
- A right of the people
- Act now to ensure your safety
- Americans are trusted with arms
- Americans need to be well armed
- Are we not to be trusted?
- Armed and ready
- Armed citizens prevent military tyranny
- Arms and politeness
- Arms and the man
- Arms are a protection against government tyranny
- Arms control
- Arms for free men
- Army can never threaten liberties
- Assault weapons
- Best exercise
- Bureaucrats and guns
- Carrying a gun
- Choosing serfdom
- Citizen vs. subject
- Congress is not authorized
- Crazy gun laws
- Defining ‘militia’
- Definition of ‘gun control’
- Disarm people to enslave them
- Disarmed citizens are servants
- Disarming the law-abiding
- Don’t disarm law-abiding citizens
- Every able-bodied citizen
- Favoring the criminal
- Firearms and the Constitution
- Firearms restrain evil interference
- Formula for tyranny
- Freedom is precarious
- Government is a threat
- Gun control
- Gun control
- Gun control is just one step
- Gun control is not about guns or crime
- Gun owners are patriots
- Gun rights are for securing independence
- Gun rights are fundamental to our liberty
- Gun-free zones
- Gun-free zones
- Guns are our friends
- Guns don’t cause crime
- How society controls crime
- How to ensure your freedom
- Individual self defense
- Is your life worth protecting?
- Liberal anti-gun arguments
- Life depends on self-defense
- Limited government, neutrality, and armed citizens
- Master and servant
- Minute Men needed
- Misdeeds of the British
- More guns equal more safety
- Natural rights
- No ‘interest-balancing’ rights
- No liberty without the sword and the purse
- No right to self-defense, no peace
- Occasional crime cannot trump Constitutional rights
- On assault weapons and hate speech
- Only the pathetic cannot defend themselves
- Pacifism
- Personal security, personal liberty, and private property
- Police protection
- Preparedness
- Preserve the innocent
- Preserving liberty through arms
- Prevent the establishment of a standing army
- Pro-gun gun control
- Protected right to own and carry arms
- Protection against monarchs, etc.
- Protection against tyranny
- Real purpose of the 2nd Amendment
- Remaining free
- Responsible gun ownership
- Restricting arms
- Second Amendment stand is revealing
- Shall not be infringed
- Swords and plowshares
- That every man be armed
- The 2nd Amendment will always be important
- The Second Amendment
- The Second Amendment
- The commonwealth militia
- The failure of gun control
- The four boxes of liberty
- The goal
- The land of the free and home of the brave
- The logic of gun control
- The militia is the people
- The militia protects our rights and liberties
- The need for self-defense
- The palladium of our liberties
- The people are not to be disarmed
- The people must not be disarmed
- The profound tradition of firearm possession
- The right of each to carry arms
- The right to arms shall never be questioned
- The right to bear arms
- The right to bear arms is absolute
- The right to keep and bear arms
- The ultimate authority lies in an armed populace
- Timeless Second Amendment
- Trustworthiness of government
- Tyranny and oppression
- Unalienable right to bear arms
- Unarmed people are slaves
- Unarmed people cannot guarantee security
- Unarmed victims
- Victimizing the victims
- Vindication of rights
- Violence by proxy
- Weapon of choice
- Why weren’t guns behaving violently 100 years ago?
- You have the right to bear arms
adulthood
capitalism
- At war with competition
- Belief in the free market
- Capitalism vs. altruism
- Capitalism vs. bureaucracy
- Capitalism vs. communism
- Capitalism vs. socialism
- Closet capitalists
- Cooperation vs. force
- Diversity of enterprise for the wealth of a nation
- Do not condemn what you have never seen
- Don’t conflate capitalism and corporatism
- Encouraged by inequality
- Fairness
- Free competition
- Free market benefits
- Gratitude vs. entitlement
- Greed vs. virtue
- Is capitalism moral?
- Mitigating greed
- Politicians vs. free market capitalism
- Private enterprise
- Pursuing private interests
- Set business free
- The best system yet
- The free market and national wealth
- The free market limits oppression
- The strongest argument for free enterprise
- Three forms of capital
- What is profit?
- When politicians pass laws
citizenship
- Accidental insults
- American unity
- Americans must put America first
- CPAC at the Bridge
- Foreigners vs. Americans
- Golden Rule of citizenship
- Hyphenated Americanism
- Hyphenated Americans
- If you see something, say something
- Knowing is not enough
- No sane country would permit birthright citizenship
- Pausing immigration to rid newcomers of foreign attachments
- Speak out against tyranny
- The importance of natural born citizens
climate
collectivism
collectivization
- A dangerous sign of the times
- Big Brother
- Centralization of powers
- Centralizing all power
- Collective immorality
- Collectivism
- Collectivism
- Collectivism demands brute force
- Collectivist emergencies
- Collectivist promised
- Collectivization
- Concentration of powers
- Despotism through consolidation of power
- Don’t hand over your powers
- Family and country
- Fanatical hatred
- Fed Corp.
- Fight big government
- Freedom giving way to control
- Freeing yourself from communism
- Globalist hypocrisy
- Good intentions
- Government is not the solution
- Herd mentality
- Humans as objects of the state
- Illogic in crowds
- Immoral morality of the elites
- Imposing the revolution
- In the name of liberalism
- It starts with the centralization of power
- Jaws of power
- Majority vs. minority
- Man exists for himself
- More government = less humanity
- Obedience and rebellion
- Observations from an indignant millennial
- Other’s achievements
- Peace through freedom
- Perfection vs. government promises
- Pharmacological brainwashing
- Politics as religion
- Producers must have rights
- Public employee collective bargaining
- Public employee union tactics
- Public employee unions
- Public sector vs. private
- Rights and needs of the many
- Rule by brute force
- Spending other people’s money
- State vs. society
- Subordination to the state
- Systematically making us slaves
- That which belongs to everyone belongs to no one
- The ‘blessing’ of terrorism
- The alibi of tyrants
- The collectivist paradox
- The cost of good intentions
- The deity of the State
- The failure of central planners
- The failure of rigid central planning
- The goal of ‘liberals’
- The growth of centralized government
- The mentality of crowds
- The nature of socialism
- The price of utopia is freedom
- The primary goal of collectivism
- The remarkable F. A. Hayek
- The savagery of crowds
- The standard crisis response
- The statist objective
- The urge to centralize
- There is no ‘we’ without ‘I’
- Thought control and conditioning
- Totalitarian democracy
- Ultimate absurdity
- Us vs. them
- Wealthy communists
conservatism
conviction
corruption
- Big cities and corruption
- Circumspection and distrust
- Corrupt politicians mean corrupt government
- Corrupting the system
- Corruption in government
- Corruption is like a cancer
- Crime is contagious
- Disinformation
- Eliminating cronyism
- First sign of societal corruption
- Goal achieved
- Governing by force and fraud
- Government incompetence and corruption
- Guard against corruption and tyranny at all times
- How power corrodes
- Insidious forces within
- Limit corruption by limiting government
- More power means more abuse of power
- No patience, no tolerance, no sympathy
- Observing state corruption
- Our institutions have become untrustworthy and corrupted
- Patriotic obligation
- Politicians and money
- Power always corrupts
- Power and prophecies
- Power is the prize
- Social Security Trust Fund
- Supreme power enervates
- Test for a police state
- That time is now
- The George Soros factor
- The chains of tyrants
- The crossroads in our history
- The importance of the rule of law
- The industrial/political complex
- The need for good leaders
- The only recourse for betrayal
- Too bad it’s not our money
- Too many high-sounding words
- Treason and the nation
- When the law becomes corrupted
- Why republics fall
culture
- ‘Rivers of Blood’
- A fatal tendency of mankind
- A jolt of Western civilization
- Actors and politics
- American unity
- Behold our betters
- Black lies matter
- Boiling down ‘multiculturalism’
- CPAC at the Bridge
- Causes of downfall
- Civilizations
- Content of their character
- Critical theory
- Cultural relativism
- Culture in a tailspin
- Darfur is the natural state of the world
- Degeneracy in the populace kills freedom
- Degraded society
- Demographics and crime
- Don’t trust SJWs
- Favoring limits on freedom
- Fight for Western values
- Foolish endeavor
- Girly men
- Hard times create strong men
- Here and there
- Hollywood vs. DC
- How low we’ve sunk
- Insinuated tyranny
- Islam and the West
- Low standards are not compassionate
- Marriage is the parent of society
- Modern ‘progressives’
- Modern ‘progressivism’
- Muslim multiculturalism
- Normal Americans are barriers to social progress
- Our growing cultural deviancy
- Our only threat comes from within
- Past, present, and future
- Political correctness vs. Western civilization
- Progressivism in a nutshell
- Protecting the future
- Racial differences in intelligence
- Re-defining ‘marriage’
- Regressive progressives
- Societal de-evolution
- Systemic violence
- Taking Western civilization for granted
- Thank you, Christian white men
- Thanksgiving
- The American nation
- The real threat we face
- The two faces of multiculturalism
- The wants and the want-nots
- There can be no compromise
- United we must remain
- Wanton destruction
- We have met the enemy
- We must teach and appreciate American exceptionalism
- Western civilization
- Western civilization
- Which is worse?
- White supremacy
- Who’s responsible?
- Why borders?
- Why study politics and war
debt
- Avoid debt
- Borrowing
- Cherish public credit
- Debt ends liberty
- Economical numbers
- Gold, silver, barter, and debt
- Government borrowing
- Government must pay its debts
- How to conquer and enslave
- Limiting future debt
- Make Federal borrowing illegal
- Mismanagement shown by debts and taxes
- Most urgent fiscal consideration
- People without homes will not quarrel
- Public debt
- Public debt
- Raising the debt limit represents failure
- Real wealth and virtual wealth
- The coming financial meltdown
- The greatest calamity
- The monied aristocracy
- U.S. debt and budget deficit
decentralization
- Accumulation of powers
- Ask not
- Breeding ground for tyrants
- Centralization creates monsters out of men
- Concentrated power
- Consequences for Congress
- Controlling corruption
- Decentralization is crucial
- Distribution of powers
- Efficiency of the private sector
- Enumerated powers
- Good and safe government
- Government control
- Government is not the solution
- Government power is limited
- Importance of decentralization
- Increasing prosperity
- Lethargic government wanted
- Liberty trumps union
- Making government work
- Ministries of propaganda
- No man is to be trusted with power
- One-size-fits-all government
- Power corrupts
- Power must be dispersed
- Power over men
- Public sector vs. private
- Secession
- Secessionist attitudes
- State sovereignty
- States are sovereign bodies
- Stop arbitrary power cold
- Tenth Amendment
- The fatal conceit of centralized power
- The general welfare
- The ratchet effect of government intrusion
- The voluntary Union
- Unrestrained authority
- What our Federal government should be
demagogue
demagogues
- Addicted to power
- Admiring liars
- African dictators
- An imperial, lawless president
- At your feet or at your throat
- Beware the cure
- Character matters
- Chimeras
- Cunning men
- Defending their errors
- Demagogue defined
- Demagogues and bureaucrats
- Demagogues and demaslaves
- Democrats on dissent
- Disinformation
- Do not blame Caesar
- Don’t be talked out of your liberties
- Elite contempt
- Empty promises
- Ensuring a country’s survival
- Equality and liberty
- Freedom from coercion
- Greed
- Helping themselves
- How demagogues work
- Legacy of lawlessness
- Letter from President Donald J. Trump to the Speaker of the House of Representatives
- Lucky rulers
- Never let a good crisis go to waste
- Of the people, by the people, and for the people
- Opinion vs. facts
- Orators
- Ordained to rule
- Party above truth
- People in power tend to tilt things in their direction
- Political promises
- Power seekers
- Power to the people?
- Propaganda’s purpose
- Question the ‘shepherds’
- Racists in high places
- Rebranding
- Rights under Islam
- Secondary agenda
- Self-appointed leaders
- Skepticism needed
- Some drug policy
- State PR
- Statists relish ‘crises’
- Subverting the will of the electorate
- Take action for liberty
- The alibi of tyrants
- The best argument for small government
- The enemy within
- The last refuge
- The pillar of the state
- The pretense of caring
- The pretext of ‘necessity’
- The song of the tyrant
- The squeaky wheels
- Thrift vs. greed
- Too dangerous
- Trading down
- Traitors
- Unenlightened self-interest
- Watch your ‘leaders’
- When they’re out of power they’re just funny
democracy
- ‘Freedom’ does not define democracy
- A republic, not a democracy
- Argument against democracy
- Beyond democracy
- Collective wisdom
- Democracies are not permanent
- Democracy
- Democracy and taxes
- Democracy cannot long survive
- Democracy detested
- Democracy enslaves
- Democracy equals brute force
- Democracy equals mob rule
- Democracy is a disease and a poison
- Democracy is a threat to the American republic
- Democracy is temporary
- Democracy leads to tyranny
- Democracy never lasts long
- Democracy or republic?
- Democracy runs to anarchy
- Democracy vs. liberty
- Democracy’s inevitable end
- Democracy’s problem
- Electoral college
- Even if everybody knows …
- Evils from democracy
- Forms of tyranny
- From democracy to anarchy
- From democracy to anarchy to subjugation
- From democracy to dictatorship
- From republic to democracy
- Getting back on the road to liberty
- Getting what you deserve
- Givers vs. takers
- Government abuse of power
- Greek democracy
- How best to make citizens happy
- How democracy commits suicide
- Illogic in crowds
- Incubating tyranny
- Instant democracy doesn’t work
- Law above democracy
- Legalizing theft
- Liberty under democracies
- Liberty vs. democracy
- Long live the republic
- Majority makes right?
- Majority rule
- Marxist breeding ground
- Minority rights
- Mob democracy
- Mob rule
- Numbers don’t change morality
- Oppression destroys society
- Overbearing majority
- People’s choice
- Problems with a pure democracy
- Protection against the mob
- Republic or democracy?
- Republican form of government
- Running the circus
- Social democracy and fascism
- Socialism will end our Republic
- The Constitution stops democracy
- The best form of government
- The danger of direct democracy
- The danger of private interests
- The destructiveness of democracy
- The fallacy of democracy
- The false premise of democracy
- The fruits of democracy
- The ills of democracy
- The mentality of crowds
- The new slavery
- The power to covet
- The real danger to America
- The religion of democracy
- The root of democracy
- The savagery of crowds
- The tyranny of majority rule
- The tyranny of the majority
- The tyranny of the masses
- Toxic femininity
- Tyranny of the masses
- Unlimited power leads to despotism
- Vote for freedom
- Voting for tyranny
- We are not the government
- Why a republic?
- Wolf in sheep’s clothing
- Wolves and lambs
diversity
- A nation of immigrants is not a nation
- Academic diversity
- Benefits of diversity?
- CPAC at the Bridge
- Costs of diversity
- Democracy is destroying diversity
- Divergence of beliefs
- Diversity of beliefs
- Diversity vs. diversity
- Diversity: That culture you risked your life to flee from
- Globalist hypocrisy
- Immigration diversity
- Islam and the West
- Protecting women
- The myth of diversity
- The two faces of multiculturalism
- We must overcome ‘diversity’
- Wonderful diversity?
economics
- Accumulating public debt
- All wealth starts on the farm
- Autarky
- Bank bail-outs
- Borrowing from those we protect
- Bring out the chain saw
- Cheaper than ever
- Debt overthrows public morality
- Debt rises with income
- Deficit spending
- Depression and unemployment
- Destructive power of inflation
- Economic control
- Economic control = people control
- Economic controls
- Economic power vs. political power
- Economics
- Economics 101
- Economics for Dummies
- Economists
- End the Fed
- Enlightened free-market
- Expansion and collapse
- Fiat currencies allow government theft
- Fighting the central bank
- Forced monopolies
- Freedom of commerce
- Getting rid of poverty
- Government borrowing
- Government control of the economy
- Government interference
- Government mismanagement of monies
- Government responsibility
- Hard work
- Infinite growth in a finite system
- Inflation
- Inflation betrays creditors
- Is reality optional?
- Labor is not the source of wealth
- Liberty vs. intrusion
- Managing capital
- Minimum-wage laws
- Misunderstanding the free market
- No freedom in socialism
- Pay as you go
- Paying people to be poor
- Public debt is our greatest enemy
- Rent control
- Social Security
- Socialist ‘economics’
- Someone has to pay
- Something for nothing
- Stimulus packages
- Super humans
- Taxation without representation
- The Great Depression
- The Great Depression
- The Rolls Royce fallacy
- The best system yet
- The cost of false equality
- The forced march to mediocrity
- The free market
- The source of all true wealth is the farm
- Turning interest into principal
- Unintended consequences
- Virtue of free markets
- Watch what gold is doing
- What economists do
- What is ‘just’
- When the boom becomes a bust
- Why plan ahead?
- Work vs. welfare
education
- A peek into the future
- Artificial stupidity
- Basic upper education
- Campus freedom
- Classroom philosophies
- Complete education
- Control
- Controlling the masses
- Democracy is destroying diversity
- Disadvantage on campus
- Don’t use kids as guinea pigs
- Dumbing down higher education
- Easier to fool people
- Educate to preserve liberty
- Educated into ignorance
- Educated into stupidity
- Educating children
- Education benchmarks
- Education control
- Education creates inequality
- Education fights slavery
- Education has been replaced by ideological indoctrination
- Education is a weapon
- Education paradox
- Education today
- Exploiters as educators
- Familiarity vs. knowledge
- Fantasyland
- Federal interference in education
- Federal intervention
- Government education
- Government education
- Learning
- Learning from others
- Learning is not attained by chance
- Let’s hear it for vocational ed
- Liberty and learning
- Newspapers
- Newspapers
- No incentives in socialism
- Persistence
- Political correctness vs. Western civilization
- Politically-correct education
- Progressive mind-control
- Reality in education
- Schools can be damaging
- Stop false climate teachings
- Teacher expectations
- Teaching skepticism
- The changing role of schools
- The de-evolution of schooling
- The ignorance of the educated
- The mark of education
- The reality of race
- This is our problem right here
- Totalitarian liberals
- What every principal should tell his students
- What’s the difference?
- Wisdom and age
environment
equality
- ‘Equality’ lowers everyone
- A depraved taste for equality
- A formula for never-ending strife
- A never-ending cycle of victimization
- Affirmative action
- Affirmative-action policies do not promote harmony
- Becoming American
- Censorship
- Civil rights and equality
- Clamoring for equality
- Dealing with inequality
- Democracy is destroying diversity
- Disadvantage on campus
- Discrimination is not helpful
- Education creates inequality
- Encouraging segregation
- Envy cannot be our master
- Equal in slavery
- Equal justice under the law
- Equal protection
- Equal rights
- Equal treatment for all
- Equality before the law
- Equality in governments
- Equality of opportunity vs. equality of outcome
- Equality through freedom
- Equality under the law
- Equality under the law
- Equality vs. freedom
- Equality vs. liberty
- Equally free and independent
- Forced equality is madness
- Freedom over equality
- Freedom vs. equality
- Government discrimination is noxious
- Government must serve everyone equally
- I considered myself a liberal …
- Inequality before the law
- No license to discriminate
- People are very different
- Picking racial winners and losers
- Preferential treatment
- Real equality
- Rejecting ‘equality of outcome’
- Same rules for all
- Seductions of power
- Thank you, Christian white men
- The Fourteenth Amendment needs guardrails
- The Harrison Bergeron effect
- The betrayal of MLK’s hope
- The cost of false equality
- The defect of equality
- The equality of our Founding Fathers
- The false premise of democracy
- The greatest inequality
- The inequality of the races
- The mirage of social justice
- The very essence of freedom
- The zero-sum nature of college admissions
- Today’s youth not responsible for segregation
- True equality
- Two wrongs cannot make a right
- Uniformity
- Uniformity is not ideal
- What matters is how you confront challenges
- Why we fight
evil
- Crimes of ego
- Disinformation
- Ending government evil
- Fighting evil
- Goal achieved
- Good intentions
- Mercy
- Mission creep
- Moral indignation
- No compromise with evil
- Speed is no justification
- Supporting evil
- Terrorism as a political weapon
- Test for a police state
- Tolerance becomes a crime
- Truth, right, and good
- Who is destroying the world?
evolution
foreign policy
- America first
- American isolationism
- Borrowing from those we protect
- Clear as mud
- Conduct with other nations
- Defining ‘alliance’
- Dereliction of Congress
- Empire abroad means repression at home
- Entangling alliances
- Foreign aid
- Government adventurism
- Here’s how to handle the situation in Seattle
- Isolationism and self-reliance
- Jettison the empire to save the republic
- Lead by example
- Middle East conflict
- No acquiescence to thugs
- No commission to police the world
- No favored nations
- Paying for defense
- Perception gap
- The creation of ISIS
- The insidious wiles of foreign influence
- The power of the free man