As the Liberty Amendments is now available for sale, it’s time we begin a genuine discussion here about the ideas behind the book’s proposals, along with the pushback we’re likely to see from, among others, Harry Reid’s good buddy and fellow 31-year Senate fixture, John McCain and the establicans, who will be guarding their power as jealously as the Democrats. The Party of the Status Quo — the less left

I Tweeted this out the other day, but I never got around to posting it. Consider that oversight rectified. Look: we all knew this was a precursor to a single payer system — that ObamaCare Mark I was designed to fail, with that failure then providing the rationalization for removing private sector players from the market at all. The IRS — perhaps under the caring, benevolent hand of, say, Lois

I hate to say I told you so, but — Oh, who am I kidding? I love to tell you I told you so. The problem is, so few of you bother to listen. Once you surrender the language, you surrender autonomy. Once you surrender autonomy, will to power and consensus will begin its tyrannical creep, freed from the constraints of a Constitutional republic built on the stewardship of guarding

Some things just can’t be tolerated, speech or no speech. But feel free to burn a flag. While wearing your Nixon mask. Or your Reagan mask. Or either of your Bush masks. And your Che Guevera shirt. To make a statement about the duality of man. In fact, fuck it: strap those masks onto some paper mache doll, put horns and a Hitler mustache on it, and then hang the

It’s rather sad that we’ve reached a time in our history as a republic that we have to literally celebrate a ruling that doesn’t find constitutional emanations or penumbras through which to actively deconstruct the original intent of constitutional language, rendering it, by clever recalibration, an embrace of textualism, and an acceptance of incoherent rules for what constitutes legitimate interpretation, a plaything of philosopher kings in black robes. But we’re

And why not? The GOP leadership — as it’s done with its phony, symbolic votes to repeal ObamaCare — has shown that it will engage in the theater of investigation and prosecution (perhaps), but it will never reach the higher ups, and a few scapegoats and some strong words of condemnation will be all that it musters, a show for the media and to gull GOP donors.   I mean,

Via Darleen: The gun-grabbers are really going all out here: A group of bills moving through California’s assembly and senate–including one to create a database for ammunition purchases–could create the strictest gun control laws of any state in the union. According the San Jose Mercury News, the bills being heard in the state senate on August 12 would create a database of all ammo purchases in the state, “make it

It’s a smart idea, though I would much prefer an amendment that did away with automatic withholdings. If people had an idea about what they were actually paying to the government — instead of falling into the status quo trap of simply accepting their take home pay as their take home pay (most people don’t even really do the math) — I suspect they’d quickly re-embrace the free market system,