Pelosi’s Sabotage of the State of the Union Gives Trump an Opportunity to Return to Jefferson’s Precedent
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made some news on Wednesday when she sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging a postponement of the State of the Union address before…
The Email Privacy Act: Get the Government Out of Your Inbox
During the president’s State of the Union address last night, Barack Obama stated that we need to reaffirm our commitment to civil liberties and the protection of American privacy.
What Obama SHOULD Have Said Last Night
It’s no big surprise that I wasn’t a fan of President Obama’s State of the Union address last night. As expected, it was full of bad ideas and logical fallacies.
SOTU: Much to Do About BIG Government
Democracy and Power 103: Government Money The money taxed and spent by the politicians comes from the labor and ingenuity of millions of working persons. Politicians spend other peoples’…
Sequester: Insincerity and Mendacity
Democracy and Power 108: ObfuscationWherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead of…
President Obama’s Minimum Wage Hike Proposal Will Harm The Poor
In Tuesday's State of the Union Address, President Obama proposed raising the federally mandated minimum wage to $9 per hour, a 24% increase over the current mandate. In a subsequent…
Oh, City of Little Faith
The state of the union is “screwed.”…