Obama’s Chief Of Staff Admits They Want Tyranny
The White House recently made an amazing—and disturbingly un-American—pronouncement regarding its desire to move its agenda via executive actions. In describing the administration’s intent to pursue...
View Article4 Major Objections To Donald Trump That Fail The Smell Test
The #NeverTrump movement has been facing some tough times lately. Republicans who were once seen as the future of the party have now been cast aside as traitors as, one by one, they have come out in...
View ArticleWhy Should Axing Due Process Stop With The Second Amendment?
First, it would be so nice to write about something — anything — unrelated to Donald Trump, but even the current House of Representatives scrap over gun rights reflects the debased and foolhardy...
View ArticleNational Conversations About Race Distract From Bigger Issues
In the wake of recent tragedies in Baton Rouge, Minneapolis, and Dallas, the online chatter has been a mixed bag. Everything from Second Amendment protections for blacks to police officers’ heroic...
View ArticleHow To Stop The Feds From Micromanaging The Country
Since May, the U.S. Department of Education has held hostage school districts across the country by saying it may withhold precious federal funding if its Office of Civil Rights determines they have...
View ArticleHow The Electoral College Can Save Us From Trump And Hillary
Voters agree on a lot more than one might suspect, given all the divisiveness and anger this year. Most people are upset with their options, and they simply want to put the nightmarish presidential...
View ArticleCongress Has Refused To Confirm Supreme Court Justices Before, And Can Do It...
In a recent article here at The Federalist, Ilya Shapiro explained that the Senate would be well within its rights to refuse to confirm any of Hillary Clinton’s Supreme Court nominees should she become...
View ArticleThis Is The Least Important Election Of Our Lifetimes
During the 1864 presidential race between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan, The New York Times published an editorial that contained this sentence: “The republic is approaching what is to be one of...
View ArticleDemocrats Are Suddenly Terrified By The Prospects Of An ‘Imperial Presidency’
Laying the groundwork for future Democratic Party attacks, a new Politico piece detailing the numerous ways Donald Trump has promised to dismantle eight years of Barack Obama’s executive overreach now...
View ArticleDonald Trump Just Made These 10 Things Cool Again
Donald J. Trump began his run for the White House by vowing to Make America Great Again. The pithiness of the slogan drove his opponents mad, but it worked. It communicated in just four words the...
View ArticleDid Democrats Learn Anything From Their Attack On The Filibuster?
After reading the CNN piece titled “Senate Dems, powerless to stop Trump nominees, regret ‘nuclear option’ power play” a person may experience some deeply satisfying schadenfreude. So be sure to keep...
View Article12 Amendments Our Constitution Needs, But Not Through An Article V Convention
The United States has the second-oldest constitution in the world (second to the United Kingdom, whose unwritten constitution took its major shape around 1688). The longevity of our constitution can...
View ArticleTop 10 Ways Obama Violated The Constitution During His Presidency
The Obama administration has been the most lawless in U.S. history. I don’t mean that in the Nixonian sense of personal corruption, whereby the president is personally above the law, although the idea...
View ArticleBarack Obama Welcomes You To Donald Trump’s Imperial Presidency
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order effectively suspending enforcement of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. The provision, requiring all Americans...
View ArticleHow President Trump Can Make Congress Responsible Again
Congressional failure to preserve its powers has dangerously concentrated power in the single person of the president. Outsiders have raised the alarm for decades, but it has finally broken through to...
View ArticleWhy We Need To Let Legislatures Override Bad Court Rulings
We regularly witness the increasingly aggressive and activist posture of our nation’s judiciary. The issue recently came to a head with Judge James Robart’s extra-constitutional act of staying a...
View ArticleYou Want Checks And Balances? Stop Ignoring The Constitution When You’re In...
“Trump has an authoritarian impulse,” Ian Bremmer tweeted after the president fired FBI Director James Comey, “But incompetence is a better explanation of his administration’s challenges to date.” It’s...
View ArticleTo Deliver Real Senate Rule Changes, Repeal The 17th Amendment
Last week President Trump tweeted that Senate rules for budget bills should be changed. There’s little chance that will happen. But why settle for little changes when we need big-league change? We need...
View ArticleHow Congress Can Drive A Stake Through Bureaucracy’s Heart
Congress may be getting serious about reclaiming its constitutional power. After decades of ceding power to the federal bureaucracy, the 115th Congress is attempting to check overzealous regulators,...
View ArticleIt’s Time To Repeal The 17th Amendment And End Direct Election Of Senators
If you asked me to name one thing America could do right now to remedy many of our national problems, my response would be simple: Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment. Do it yesterday. The Framers of the...
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