“If Republicans offer these types of ‘alternatives’ to voters — where both parties favor expanding government dependency — why should their base support them?” The degree to which constitutionalists must engage in a kind of intellectual gymnastics in order to support nearly any politician these days goes to show just how far removed we’ve become from a representative republic in any real sense. Well, that, and the success of Chris

Illinois Review: The IRS scandal may have its roots in Illinois politics. Specifically, the 1996 U.S. Senate race between Democrat Congressman Dick Durbin and conservative Republican State Rep. Al Salvi. More than a decade before his 2010 letter to IRS officials urging the agency to target conservative organizations, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin’s political career crossed paths with Ms. Lerner when she was head of the Enforcement Division of the Federal

Subject: um. WOW! Date: May 29, 2013 5:47:16 PM EDT Jeff – Um. WOW. We didn’t except so many of you to come out to celebrate the departure of Michele Bachmann from Congress. If we can harness this momentum — and raise $200,000 by our FEC deadline in 48 hours — we really have a chance to kick the rest of Michele Bachmann’s Tea Party buddies out of Congress. Will

And the “common sense” affront by government on rights upon which the government supposedly cannot infringe, continues apace: The California Senate on Wednesday approved a package of seven gun control bills, including background checks for people who buy ammunition, introduced in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. […] The measures include a requirement that Californians who want to buy ammunition, and the vendors who