America

In American election cycles all of the possible candidates for government office of both major political parties assure those who may vote for them in primaries and the general election that they are voices for the real or true “American values.”

After more than two centuries of (somewhat) limited government in the United States, is the tide turning against individual freedom and state sovereignty in favor of an empowered collective and unfettered federal power?

We live in a time when an understanding and an appreciation of what a free society can or should be like is being slowly lost.

Watch for this phrase in your social media feeds: “these people.”

Russia is once again actively trying to influence the policies of foreign governments, though this time, the target is Europe, not the United States.

Sponsors of the “Green New Deal” (GND) resolution—and the socialists who publicly supported it—got a black eye last week as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called their bluff and brought the GND to the Senate floor for a vote.

“Back when I was a kid, a minimum-wage job could support a family of three. Today, a full-time minimum-wage job in America won’t keep a mama and a baby out of poverty.”

If America’s founders had been forced to choose between having no Congress, or no President, they would quickly have chosen the latter.

It has become increasingly difficult to believe that the nation the Founders envisioned will even be remotely recognizable in a couple of decades down the road.

This is the one hundredth anniversary of the great influenza pandemic of 1918. In his book The Great Influenza, John M. Barry described it as the deadliest plague in history.

Lessons from foreign nations should be viewed with skepticism for three reasons.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #114 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Heartland Institute and the Illinois Policy Institute.

On June 6, Policy Advisor and Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition Tom Harris appeared on the Charles Tendell Show discussing the complicated nature of leaving the Paris Climate Accord.