It’s Time for America to Break Up with Big Government Mark Meckler July 9, 2015 Big Government, Featured, News Premiering on YouTube this week, the "Love Gov" video series from Independent Institute personifies the increasing folly, cost, and intrusiveness of big government in the lives of everyone, especially the young. This 5-part video series depicts the federal...
Mark Meckler on Fox News: 24,000 Lost IRS Emails Mark Meckler June 30, 2015 Big Government, Corruption, Featured, IRS Lawsuit, Mark's Commentaries, News, Scandals Mark Meckler appeared on Fox News recently to discuss how the IRS could "lose" 24,000 emails that pertain to that agency's targeting of conservative groups. Many of them, the IRS admits, were to or from former IRS director Lois Lerner. The IRS will claim...
King v. Burwell Ruling Reveals There Is “No Longer Any Balance of Power in the Federal Government” Mark Meckler June 29, 2015 Big Government, Convention of States, Dispersed Power, Featured, News PURCELLVILLE, Va., June 25, 2015 – The Convention of States Project denounces today’s Supreme Court ruling in King v. Burwell that proves once again the people don’t stand a chance against the ruling elite in Washington, D.C. Worse yet, the...
China Follows Russia’s Lead and Steals Data on 4 Million Federal Employees Mark Meckler June 29, 2015 Featured, News Do you feel secure? Newstime is already full of stories of unrest, conflict, and violence. Now information theft is becoming another theme in the national news. First Russian criminals hacked the IRS. Weeks later, it was revealed that Chinese hackers...
Maybe China Could Find Lois Lerner and Hillary Clinton’s Emails? Mark Meckler June 26, 2015 Corruption, Featured, Incumbent Accountability, IRS Lawsuit, News Maybe it’s time to sub-contract a few internal investigations out to foreign hackers. They’ve made more progress with government records in the past month than the IRS has made in two years. The IRS and Office of Personnel Management both recently...
Hollywood Against Big Government: Vince Vaughn’s Prescient Words About Gun Ownership Mark Meckler June 23, 2015 Big Government, Citizens Spotlight, Dispersed Power, Engaged Citizens, Featured, Mark's Commentaries, News 1 Comment Hollywood has long had a hypocritical relationship with guns. While strutting around with armed bodyguards, they staunchly oppose the right for ordinary Americans to enjoy the same security guns provide. While starring in blow-’em-up action movies and...
High School Concert Choir Bullied by ‘Separation of Church and State’ Group – Parents Fight Back Mark Meckler June 22, 2015 Citizens Spotlight, Education, Engaged Citizens, Featured, News When an Ohio high school caved to pressure from a “separation of church and state” group, parents found a way for the show to go on. Willoughby South High School’s Concert Choir was all set to perform “I Am Martol,” a show they had been working...
Before Conservatives Beat Hillary, Three Reasons Why They First Should Beat Bush Mark Meckler June 15, 2015 Dispersed Power, Featured, Mark's Commentaries, News 2 Comments “We’ve had enough Bushes,” said Barbara Bush two years ago, dismissing the idea of her son Jeb running for President. Her husband and another son both already held the highest office in the world. Though the media is staging 2016 as the ultimate...
Nosier than the NSA? Shadowy Bureau May Have Your Credit Card Info Mark Meckler June 9, 2015 Big Government, Dispersed Power, Featured, News While the domestic spying National Security Agency has been under the red-hot political spot light, another quasi-governmental agency has quietly gone about the business of collecting nearly 1 billion U.S. credit card records without consumer...
Mark Meckler on Reason.com: “Electing Good People Isn’t Enough” Mark Meckler June 8, 2015 Big Government, Convention of States, Featured, Incumbent Accountability, Media Coverage, News 1 Comment "Isn't amending the Constitution a little excessive for the problems facing our nation? All we need is to elect the right people into office who will really follow the Constitution." This is an objection often raised by skeptics and critics who hear about...