Hobby Lobby Victorious in Supreme Court
In a historic decision, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Hobby Lobby and two other family-owned businesses may opt out of Affordable Care Act mandates that employees provide insurance for certain contraceptives. The ruling confirms that people don’t waive their religious rights just because they open a family business. Justice Samuel Alito wrote a careful […]
Video: Ideas for Your Next Audit?
Sometimes if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. Here’s a nice three-minute YouTube video for the IRS’s excuses for targeting the Tea Party and other patriotic groups:
Bi-Partisan Committees Discuss Protocols for Inevitable Article V Convention
An Article V convention, also known as the Convention of States, has quietly become a political inevitability, as state legislators all over the nation consider how to rein in the federal government’s unprecedented overreach and abuse. The Founding Fathers placed what has been called a “Constitutional emergency cord” in the Constitution’s Fifth Article, to be […]
The Rot Runs Deep: Thousands of Bureaucrats Need to Go
David French has a great article over on National Review, about the incompetency of government employees. When dealing with the federal bureaucracy, we’re dealing with a collection of individuals who simply don’t live with the kind of job insecurity that hangs over the heads of most Americans. Most people live with the reality that not […]
Making Sense of Cantor’s Defeat: A Guide for Baffled Beltway Insiders
After a few primary defeats, the media was quick to shout, “The Tea Party is dead,” but it appears the reports of its death, to paraphrase Mark Twain, have been greatly exaggerated. News outlets across the country were baffled last week when Dave Brat beat out Eric Cantor in Virginia’s Seventh Congressional District primary race. […]
Idaho Citizen Hits the Streets to Campaign for a Convention of States
This veteran is doing everything he can to make sure Idaho joins the call for a Convention of States.
The Other Side of Gun Control
Sometimes, you get so fed up with political correctness, you feel you have to do something. To take a stand against strict gun control advocates recently, one town in Colorado has passed a municipal ordinance requiring heads of households to own guns and ammunition. Yes, you read that correctly. The purpose of the requirement was […]
Landrieu: Using ‘Clout’ for Keystone Pipeline ‘Not My Job’
Mary Landrieu thinks she’s pretty powerful. In a recent interview with The Washington Post, she used the word “clout” 13 times referring to her position as the Chair of the Senate Energy Committee. But if she has so much “clout,” why isn’t she using it for the state that elected her? Oh, she says she works […]
Western States Challenge Federal Control of Land
The media has been paying attention to land issues lately, mostly because of Cliven Bundy’s recent tussle with the Feds. However, Bundy’s showdown was just a recent – though dramatic – symptom of an underlying problem that’s only now bubbling to the surface. For example, did you know western states are actually gathering to challenge […]
“The People” Are Winning Against Common Core
Parents are winning the battle against Common Core federal education standards. Not only are states leaving the program, politicians who support Common Core have felt the heat in recent elections. Michelle Malkin says the defeat of several Common Core supporters in Indiana primaries sends a message about local people’s response to the standards. The principles […]