Democracy is supposed to work best when it gets closer to home and to local communities, away from Big Government puppet masters in DC. But does it? Voters who support tax-and-spend liberals in local elections tend not to know what…
(“Because he who dies with the most stuff, wins”) Go to most stock brokers today and the advice will be pretty consistent. Making as much money as possible is the only thing that matters. All else be damned, including cultural…
In 2008 the Democrats won everything by moving the party boldly to the left. The entitlement society in America followed the lead of welfare-steeped Europe. Once “free” disability checks and food stamps start rolling in, people will never return…
Force has been the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s legacy ever since Lyndon B. Johnson created it during the 1960s as part of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, including his so-called “Great Society” social engineering initiatives. First, taxpayers…
The once venerable Associated Press is not what it used to be when it reported on wars and other major historical events. Like much media today, it simply can’t be trusted any longer to deliver journalism free of liberal bias…
Ronald Reagan had a knack for cutting through the rhetorical fog that surrounds everyday thinking: “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it.…
America’s decline won’t be reversed until true conservatives get in the white house, ones that believe in heritage values and traditional morals and colorblindness. The primacy of the Judeo-Christian faith must be a hallmark. A Romney-style businessman might be better…
Campaign finance is one of many topics in the US Constitution that Jim Schmitendorf wants people to put back on the table for further discussion. An engineering graduate of the Air Force Institute of Technology, this Piedmont author and Vietnam…
So much of what America represents used to be based on a hallowed and unchallenged respect for the past. The presidency, universities, government–all seemed utopian and ideal thanks to the same general sanitizing that is formulaic, say, in obituary sketches. …
In After America: Get Ready for Armageddon, Mark Steyn suggests that we are all wasting our time investing in short-term, shallow solutions. The problems are deeper than politicians like Obama and Romney can fix. They are moral and spiritual. We have…