The clouds of election contests are behind us and a new Republican majority in both Houses of Congress will gather in January.
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The election on November 5th is a very crucial election. The entire existence of our constitutional republic hangs in the balance. We have suffered a half century of activist/liberal court decisions that seriously threaten to undermine our Rule of Law.
Continue reading →The coming election won’t decide whether or not we go to war, whether the Homeland Security bill will pass, whether seniors will get their prescription drugs paid for by the taxpayers, or whether Social Security will be privatized.
Continue reading →The delays and wrangles about President George W. Bush’s scores of unconfirmed judicial nominees highlight the underlying issues between the two political parties. The Republicans want constitutionalists and the Democrats want judicial activists.
Continue reading →It seems self-evident that no individual should be allowed to own a law that all of us must obey.
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It’s time to realize that the term limits movement itself has limits. It works well for the president, governors, state legislators, and even congressional chairmanships, where the trappings of power become irresistible.
Continue reading →Behind frequent protestations by public officials about local control of the schools, a federal curriculum has been quietly imposed by law.
Continue reading →The pharmaceutical corporations, whose generous political spending gives them unrivaled clout with public officials, now have big plans to capitalize on public fears after 9/11.
Continue reading →Where are all those strict-constructionist Republicans who’ve been complaining about activist judges who don’t respect the fact that the U.S. Constitution gives “all legislative powers” to the Congress? Don’t those Republicans realize that it is just as unconstitutional to transfer legislative powers to the executive branch?
Continue reading →If the hijackers had used guns for their crimes on 9/11, we would surely now be caught up in a frenzy of demands that this “lesson” calls for tough gun-control legislation.
Continue reading →As President Bush has warned us, this is a new kind of war. He is doing a good job of the military and diplomatic legs of the U.S. response to terrorism, but it’s up to citizens to insist that the response on the homeland front be effective and constitutional.
Continue reading →On July 12, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) offered Amendment 899 to release the river water to the farmers. That should have been a no-brainer — what could be easier than choosing between desperate farmers and a couple of ugly fish?
Continue reading →Back in the olden days of the Cold War, a favorite sport of the liberals was to accuse conservatives of seeing imaginary spies and traitors under the bed. Who could have predicted that a real spy named Robert Hanssen and a traitor named Marc Rich would be dominating big- media headlines in 2001?
Continue reading →Hillary Clinton’s first legislative proposal since her election as Senator was to call for the abolition of the Electoral College. It’s no surprise that she will use her celebrity status to advance a series of bad ideas, and this is one of the worst.
Continue reading →Senator Hillary Clinton’s first legislative proposal since her election was to call for the abolition of the Electoral College.
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Even before the United Nations Millennium Summit begins on Wednesday (tomorrow), the conclusions are already drawn. The consensus process used at their meetings assures the outcomes of every UN meeting. Let me explain how it works.
Continue reading →Concerns have faded about a Y2K breakdown of government computers, but Americans should be worried about how computer efficiency gives the federal government extraordinary powers to monitor the daily activities of law-abiding Americans.
Continue reading →Not only does President Clinton not feel any shame about his impeachment (as he told Dan Rather), Clinton now feels stronger than ever, able to override the U.S. Constitution and ignore Congress.
Continue reading →Bill Clinton’s threats to enter the Kosovo conflict are a direct attack on national sovereignty, our own as well as Yugoslavia’s. The foreign policy gurus of the Clinton Administration don’t believe in the concept of sovereignty and are trying to replace it, piece by piece, with their global utopian vision.
Continue reading →Cut taxes across-the-board to put money in the pockets of all taxpayers. Cut rates — the proven way to keep the economy moving. Americans are overtaxed.
Continue reading →Two of the principal mechanisms by which the rulers of 20th century police states maintained their control over their people were the file and the internal passport.
Continue reading →Last week in Philadelphia I stopped by to revisit Independence Hall, the cradle of our republic where the Declaration of Independence was signed and the United States Constitution was written.
Continue reading →One of our most important constitutional rights is the right of inventors to have, for limited times, “the exclusive right to their . . . discoveries.”
Continue reading →Senator Orrin Hatch has taken exception to the New York Times’ criticism of his record as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and he wrote a letter to the editor to object. The Times had complained that Republican Senators have “politicized” the judicial confirmation process by not confirming enough of Clinton’s judicial nominees.
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