The Founders Missed One

Buried within the hyperventilating about Indiana’s recently enacted religious freedom law – a law that says (per USA Today): the government cannot “substantially burden” a person’s ability to follow their religious beliefs, unless it can...

Rock the Vote

The latest bit of chum making its way around conservative blogs and riling up the already riled up is an idea being floated by President Obama regarding making voting mandatory, with compliance probably enforceable by fines. While he acknowledged that this would be a...

Cultural Butterflies

I caught a documentary about the late great rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix last night. I knew parts of his story, and of course am familiar with his music and on the effect it had on the British and American music scene in the late 1960s. I was also reminded that he was...

Wilson and Obama

The great writer Thomas Sowell makes a compelling case that Obama is the second coming of Woodrow Wilson. Meanwhile, the smart folks over at Cato make a compelling case that Wilson’s decision to enter the US into World War I was a world-altering mistake, not...

Take Back Our Country

There’s a soundbite bouncing around out in the liberal landscape. It’s being expressed as a variation of take back our country or take back America. It was recently expressed by Elizabeth Warren, who stated during an appearance on Bill Maher’s show:...