We have real enemies who mean to destroy us. During the height of the financial panic of 2008, they gave our economy the strongest plausibly-deniable push they could, with the goal of inducing a complete financial collapse. They were actively countered and defeated in real time by the Bush Treasury Department and the Fed. These enemies are patient and know that this same attack will work sometime in the not

The other day, in response to a chiding post by leftist law prof Scott Lemieux, I wrote the following: I do believe the branches of government are co-equal — and that if we don’t allow for the check on the Supreme Court constitutionally afforded us by a paradigm of co-equal branches, we may as well recognize that we are living under the rule of 9 philosopher kings, not in a

The left and its mainstream media arm doing what they do best: manufacturing (dishonest) consent. A representative republic that is “informed” by a progressive propaganda complex masquerading (and given intellectual cover) as a neutral, objective purveyor of fact, must either overthrow that media complex, or else resign itself to the fact that they’ll be forever shaped by it. That’s not liberty. That’s being on the wrong end of an elaborate

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Spot on: In 1960, 31.9% of the private work force belonged to a union, compared to only 10.8% of government workers. By 2010, the numbers had more than reversed, with 36.2% of public workers in unions but only 6.9% in the private economy. The sharp rise in public union membership in the 1960s and 1970s coincides with the movement to give public unions collective bargaining rights. Wisconsin was the first

Gerald Seib, WSJ: The federal government isn’t simply bleeding money. Because of its addiction to red ink, it’s bleeding power, which is starting to flow away from the nation’s capital and out to the states. This is the little-recognized reality behind the remarkable political upheaval being seen in state capitals. Republican governors such as Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, New Jersey’s Chris Christie and Indiana’s Mitch Daniels are pursuing their own controversial