Lincoln’s ‘Great Crime’: The Arrest Warrant for the Chief Justice
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo Imagine that America had a Chief Justice of the United States who actually believed in enforcing the Constitution and, accordingly, issued an opinion that the war in Iraq was...
View ArticleBoston Bombing Lessons: Martial Law Doesn’t Work
Only after the curfew in Watertown, Massachusetts, was lifted and alert resident David Hanberry went outside his home to get a smoke, according to news reports, did the case of the Boston Marathon...
View ArticleThe Second Amendment as an Expression of First Principles
EDWARD J. ERLER is professor of political science at California State University, San Bernardino. He earned his B.A. from San Jose State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in government from the...
View ArticleFor 150 Years, Nevadans Have Been Encumbered By Federal Land Dominion More...
A week ago, Tuesday, April 23rd, the Nevada Assembly passed Assembly Bill 227 by a vote of 23-18. If enacted by the Nevada Senate, AB 227 will create a Nevada Land Management Task Force and charge...
View ArticleCan the Government Ban ‘Assault Weapons’? Constitutional Experts Weigh In
This article is part of a series on Guns in America that explores the use of firearms in our country and the debate over gun control. Since the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, one of the major...
View ArticleDeceit in the Boy Scouts
There is deception in the ranks of the Boy Scouts of America. A faction in the national leadership of the BSA wants to get rid of the longstanding membership policy against “open and avowed”...
View ArticleReligion and Public Life in America
By R. R. Reno, Imprimis, April 2013 R. R. RENO is the editor of First Things, a journal of religion in public life. He received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D. in religious studies from...
View ArticleCivil War’s A-Brewin’
By Matt Barber A pretty, young, auburn-haired woman – mid-20s – drove down a lonely country road somewhere in Oklahoma. Appearing in her rear view mirror, at the back windshield, were two menacing orbs...
View ArticleScouts Sending Up The White Flag
by Anthony Esolen Do you know, Scoutmasters, what you have done? You were the last prominent public institution left standing that retained for yourselves some small shred of that forgotten but...
View ArticleBig Government Is Watching And Taking Pictures And Creating Files On You
When the city of San Leandro, Calif., purchased a license-plate reader for its police department in 2008, computer security consultant Michael Katz-Lacabe asked the city for a record of every time the...
View ArticleBloomberg: Interpretation of Constitution Must Change
He’s got a good head start already in changing the interpretation of the Constitution, what with telling New Yorkers what and how much they can eat or drink and reserving the Second Amendment right to...
View ArticleNew Scouting Policy on Homosexuality: A Study in Not Being Prepared
By Rob Schwarzwalder, Family Research Council On May 23, 2013, delegates at the National Annual Meeting (NAM) of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) voted to revise their long-time policy prohibiting what...
View ArticleObama’s Tapped-Out Trust
By George F. Will Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of...
View ArticleBlackmail? NSA, Obama, Roberts & Congress – How Deep Does It Go?
By: Devvy Kidd, NewsWithViews.com The NSA spying revelations has sparked a great deal of speculation as to whether information mined by the NSA has been used to blackmail a whole lot of individuals at...
View ArticleSenate Democrats Move to Reverse Supreme Court’s Heller Decision
Reid-Leahy move would gut the Second Amendment in the eyes of the courts. Having failed to get gun control passed in the Senate, Democrats are now making a last ditch effort to reshape the Supreme...
View ArticleAmerica’s Libertarian Moment
A longtime libertarian policy wonk talks about whether the philosophy can save the GOP — and why he still doesn’t think Rand Paul can win the presidency.Libertarianism is on the march. From the rapid...
View ArticleDon’t Buy ObamaCare Insurance Just Because the Government Tells You To –...
By Gun Owners of America For over three years, Gun Owners of America has been warning Americans about the dangers of ObamaCare. While more and more Americans continue to learn about the unintentional...
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