Nixon

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

It’s generally taken as a given that the American left is in favor of individual freedoms, but when it comes to the First Amendment that seems hardly any longer to be the case. A few examples should suffice. Let’s start with one: what can only be described as the Left’s irrational obsession with attempting to overturn the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United, which by now has become a virtual plank in the official Democratic Presidential Platform.

It’s a sobering thought that the executive branch has brought eight leak-related prosecutions in the past five years compared to only three under our Constitution’s previous 221.

The history of politics is so replete with lying, obfuscation, evasion, and cover-up that a timeless joke asks “How do you know when a politician is lying?”  The answer, naturally,…

Suffice it to say that – four decades after Watergate – nothing much has changed when it comes to the abuse of Executive Branch power, and the famous dictum of Lord Acton remains true: power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

As HSAs and similar plans have soared in the private market, health spending growth has plummeted. That is the result of market competition and incentives.