Draft Jim Jordan for Speaker - April 2018

The U.S. Department of Justice must not have much going on these days. There aren’t really any other conclusions to draw considering that they’re spending their time working on keeping children in failing schools. That’s right, the Louisiana Department of Justice has sued the state of Louisiana over school vouchers.

A few weeks ago, I saw an adorable video of what appeared to be Duck Dynasty's long lost cast member, dancing with a raccoon.  The bearded old man, Mark "Coonrippy" Brown, and his pet raccoon, Gunshow, were bustin' a move to Aretha Franklin's, "Chain of Fools." As you might imagine, the video went viral (that's how I came to see it, after all).   

President Obama is bribing Congress to get them to roll over when it comes to health care reform and the budget.  Congress should refuse this illegal bribe, intended to blunt opposition to the unpopular, unworkable, Unaffordable Care Act. Congress should burn its Obamacare Card.

Democracy and Power 104: Future Debt BurdenA government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property – an unpaid tax bill. —Hans F. Sennholz

This is an open letter to William D. Ruckelshaus, Lee M. Thomas, William K. Reilly and Christine Todd Whitman. You, the former directors of the EPA who were appointed by Republican presidents, recently wrote an op-ed in the New York Times titled, A Republican Case for Climate Action.

There will be an attempt, and probably a concerted effort, to attack as selfish and even unpatriotic people who do not wish to participate in Obamacare.  If people choose to behave rationally and react to perverse incentives, expect the Left to cry foul.But as long as the wrong-headed and unjust law continues to remain in effect, all of us, one way or another, will be forced to endure the consequences. The only questions are how we can protect ourselves from it, and how much blame we're willing to accept for the damage it causes.

The civil rights issue of our era is improving America’s schools. It is essential that all kids, rich and poor, have the chance to achieve the American dream.To work toward that end, Gov. Robert Bentley recently signed the Alabama Accountability Act. The school choice package allows families with children attending failing schools to receive tax credits to help pay for attendance at a different public school or private school.

Just hours had passed since President Obama had won reelection, but it was time enough to comprehend what the inevitable implementation of Obamacare was going to do to the American workforce.

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn was shown this week to have attempted to conceal the results of a study he commissioned that examined the economic impact of expanding coal trains and exports from Washington's ports. This move is especially damning in light of his December press conference touting the study. McGinn, a vocal critic of an expansion of coal train traffic in the Pacific Northwest, has been accused of burying the report because it did not support his position and his anti-energy agenda.