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Before the income tax: how the federal government balanced the budget before 1913: yes, the U.S. government did at one time run large budget surpluses, and the revenue was generated without resorting to an income tax.		Feb 4, 2013	3636
The real green in Fedgov's "green energy": "green energy companies supported by Obama have primarily helped create jobs for elected officials and lobbyists in Washington, and profits for Wall Street.		Jan 7, 2013	3358
What to expect from the new Congress: the party numbers are pretty much the same, but the congressional Democrats are far more liberal, and the Republicans are much closer to traditional constitutionalism.	Cover story	Dec 10, 2012	3243
What destroyed the economic recovery? President Obama's first two budgets predicted three years of robust economic growth, but that didn't happen. So what happened to the economic recovery this time?	Cover story	Oct 8, 2012	3145
Are corporations entitled to Free Speech? The Founding Fathers' words are being used to vilify corporate political campaign messages, but our nation's history condemns the condemners.		Sep 24, 2012	3183
The "other" candidates for president: when Americans vote for president this November, their choices will not be limited to the standard-bearers of the two major political parties.		Sep 3, 2012	3609
Obama vs. Romney their core beliefs: information overload on the presidential candidates is actually causing voter ignorance, so we tell you where they stand on fiscal and social issues, foreign policy, and civil liberties.	Cover story	Aug 20, 2012	4008
Plowing the field for genocide: the UN's Arms Trade Treaty (ATT): the UN's proposed Arms Trade Treaty, (temporarily) rejected the week of July 23, would have disarmed citizens and left many nations vulnerable to genocide.		Aug 20, 2012	1169
Constitution candidates 2012: the fact of the matter is that most newcomers to political races lose. However, this year there are so many liberty-minded candidates running for office that some are sure to win.		Jul 23, 2012	2017
Liberty candidates on a roll: if you're down in the dumps because Ron Paul isn't faring as well as you'd like, take heart in the fact that constitutional candidates are more numerous this year - and could win.	Essay	Jun 25, 2012	1869
Challenging the congressional GOP establishment: while it may be true that the Tea Party is losing its direction and vigor, members of the movement for constitutional, fiscally sound governance are increasingly running for office.		May 21, 2012	2776
Rick Santorum: how conservative is he? Presidential candidate Rick Santorum portrays himself as a solid conservative. But how conservative was he in Congress, and what would he do as president?		Mar 19, 2012	3221
Tea party rip? The Tea Party started as a protest against bailouts and big-spending politicians, but tea partiers are now backing the big-spending republicans they were first organized to defeat.		Mar 5, 2012	2226
Media shaping the presidential election: establishment media bias shapes the theme of the presidential elections, helping to create a Republican "flavor of the month" front-runner.	Cover story	Feb 6, 2012	3019
Is Newt Gingrich the "anti-Romney" or the "other Romney"? In the Republican debates, Newt Gingrich has placed a great deal of emphasis on his conservative leanings, but his supposed beliefs are at odds with his actions.		Dec 19, 2011	2314
Newt Gingrich's Freddie Mac problem.		Dec 19, 2011	1159
Judge jury & executioner: should presidents have a license to kill?		Dec 5, 2011	3834
Herman Cain: "Cainsian" economics examined.		Nov 7, 2011	3369
Ron Paul: driving the Republican election debate agenda.		Nov 7, 2011	2248
The rights of accused terrorists: George W. Bush's and Barack Obama's treatment of accused terrorists in the war on terror has often fallen outside constitutional boundaries - and that's bad for Americans.		Oct 10, 2011	3375
Military commissions throughout U.S. history: military commissions have a long and irregular history of being created by federal authorities, and U.S. courts have been just as inconsistent in rulings on their constitutionality.	Essay	Oct 10, 2011	3281
Courts advance cases for U.S. torture victims: two Americans were tortured by U.S. officials after they became FBI informants and blew the whistle on illegal sales of U.S. munitions Iraqi rebels. Now they want justice.		Sep 19, 2011	1569
Ames and beyond: Ames, Iowa's straw poll measuring the viability of GOP candidates ended in a dead heat between Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann. The media promptly labeled them "unelectable.".		Sep 5, 2011	1596
Have the media suppressed Ron Paul's Coverage?		Sep 5, 2011	914
Thaddeus McCotter: Thaddeus McCotter promotes strong-arm foreign policy--using the military, payoffs, and tariffs. At home, his record is mixed.		Aug 22, 2011	1189
Ron Paul: Ron Paul believes that American prosperity is linked to freedom from overburdening government--he is a strict constitutionalist.		Aug 22, 2011	1305
Mitt Romney: Mitt Romney has been nicknamed "Multiple-choice Mitt" because he has taken so many contradictory stances.		Aug 22, 2011	1297
OBAMA & what he said what he did: despite his pledges as a candidate to adhere to the U.S. constitution - unlike the George W. Bush administration - Obama has failed to make good on his promises.	Cover story	Aug 8, 2011	3203
The "secret" patriot act: the admissions of whistle-blowers and high-level intelligence personnel make almost certain that U.S. intelligence agencies are wiretapping all Americans indiscriminately.		Jul 18, 2011	2127
Taking spending power from Congress: President Obama reneged on a deal he negotiated with Republican congressmen, and unconstitutionally used a signing statement to pay his "czars," though Congress forbade it.		May 23, 2011	1119
Walter Reddy: patriot's legally owned guns seized: a judge took away conservative activist Walter Reddy's guns, though Reddy has no criminal record and there is no evidence that he ever threatened anyone.		May 23, 2011	1728
The GOP Congress' "spendthrift conservatism".		May 9, 2011	808
Anti-Fourth Amendment Patriot Act: Congress is considering extending three provisions of the USA Patriot Act, but they would do better to repeal the whole unconstitutional law.		Apr 18, 2011	3405
Rand Paul's New Tea Party Handbook.		Apr 4, 2011	1554
Can we cut "defense" spending? Military and security spending amounts to $1 trillion every year, but there's a lot to "defense" spending that doesn't defend, and can still be cut--if America can abandon global empire.	Viewpoint essay	Mar 21, 2011	2546
The toll of U.S. foreign aid: U.S. foreign aid has long been used to support and influence tyrannical regimes around the world.		Mar 7, 2011	3232
Would cutting foreign aid help Israel?		Mar 7, 2011	835
The Honesty of Communists and Other Totalitarians: Communist-style governments rule well over 1.4 billion people, and are seeking growth. This book explains the goals of totalitarians and how they create converts of good people.	Book review	Feb 21, 2011	1542
Arizona shooting a pretense for attack on free speech? Left-leaning pundits have been calling for limits on what people may say about big government, but not on what the pundits may say about small-government advocates.		Feb 7, 2011	1547
United States copying Gestapo and KGB domestic surveillance?		Feb 7, 2011	791
Jon Stewart: America's leading journalist?		Jan 24, 2011	839
Ben Franklin Inverted: Popular American sayings that reflect the credos that Americans have strived to live by through our country's history are turned on their heads to reflect liberals' socialist thought.	Book review	Jan 10, 2011	860
The Founding Fathers & anonymous political speech.		Nov 8, 2010	725
Tipping the balance in November.	Cover story	Oct 11, 2010	2910
10 questions: separating liberty candidates from counterfeits.		Oct 11, 2010	1273
The power of the Internet: the growth of the Internet and its power has taken freedoms of press and speech -fundamental rights enshrined by the Founding Fathers in the First Amendment to the U.S. constitution - to a whole new level.	Cover story	Sep 13, 2010	2694
Is America headed toward Japanese-style economic "lost decades"? Warnings have come fast and furiously lately that deflation in the United States would give rise to another protracted depression, but evidence for such a theory is scarce.		Sep 13, 2010	1561
A Brilliant Exposition on the Effectiveness of Nullification: Thomas E. Woods' new book, Nullification, shows that nullification has been regularly and effectively used to render federal laws moot and that it's time to use it again.		Aug 16, 2010	1380
The Best Introduction to Economics in Print: if you want to know why the present financial crisis is happening, or whether it will get worse or not, and you don't want to read a dense economics text, read this.	Book review	Jun 21, 2010	1211
Chance for longshot candidates: candidates who wouldn't have a chance in an ordinary election year may get their chance this year, with the political apple cart already being significantly upset.		Jun 7, 2010	2510
Exposing the Lies Government Has Told You: Fox news commentator and judge Andrew Napolitano surveys times that governments have taken it upon themselves to defend freedom, but have failed.	Book review	Jun 7, 2010	1659
Outcome of ObamaCare; Obama's healthcare law has stiff costs and consequences, including less care, skyrocketing insurance premiums, likely national insolvency, and unchecked government powers.	Cover story	May 10, 2010	3364
Austrian economics rising: Austrian economists predicted the great depression and America's present troubles, but are only now gaining recognition.	Cover story	Apr 26, 2010	3199
Budget bust: while remarking that "we simply cannot continue to spend as if deficits don't have consequences," President Obama proposed future spending that will cause burgeoning deficits.		Mar 1, 2010	1292
John Yoo defends Torture: John Yoo's Crisis and Command argues that a correct interpretation of the Constitution allows Presidents unlimited powers in times of emergency. He is in grave error.		Mar 1, 2010	1958
Not a Neocon? Not likely: Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown: The next generation of Neocon.		Feb 15, 2010	1194
Constitution candidates expand across states: Ron Paul's presidential Constitution campaign in 2008 has not only sparked a surge of Constitution candidates at the national level, it has impacted statewide campaigns.		Feb 1, 2010	1785
Constitutional candidates: the Ron Paul presidential campaign last year has inspired dozens of new congressional candidates, some of whom are well funded and are being taken seriously by political analysts.	Cover story	Nov 23, 2009	2812
"Chick" Heileson vs. Mike Simpson: Chick Heileson didn't get involved in politics because of Ron Paul, but he believes the time is now to mount a congressional campaign on a constitutional foundation.	Cover story	Nov 23, 2009	1044
The White House war on Glenn Beck and Fox.		Nov 9, 2009	852
The Soviet roots of terrorism: scratch any "Islamic" terrorist group worldwide and you will find the ever-present and indispensable Soviet-Russian intelligence services.		Sep 14, 2009	2537
In the shadows of promise: evaluating Obama's campaign pledges.	Cover story	Aug 31, 2009	3968
Communism still stands in the "stans": the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia continue as totalitarian dictatorships, but have won Western aid by portraying themselves as allies in the war against terror.	Essay	Aug 17, 2009	2458
Obama needs to learn "opportunity cost".		Jul 20, 2009	763
Education policies & promises: President Obama's education policies, which are long on promises, have so far entailed no more than increasing federal spending on education.	Cover story	May 25, 2009	3322
"Serving" political ends: the national-service act that President Obama signed on April 21 was designed more for generating Democratic clout than it was for helping others.		May 25, 2009	1526
The burden of empire: Eric Garris of AntiWar.com observes how difficult it is for America to bear the heavy burden of a globe-spanning empire.	Interview	Apr 27, 2009	2167
A new Era of irresponsibility: with President Obama proposing in his fiscal 2010 budget to double taxes while doubling the national debt, one wonders when "a new era of responsibility" will really begin.		Mar 30, 2009	2302
Could Bush be prosecuted? Two recently published books address the possibility of prosecuting George W. Bush and top Bush administration officials for crimes committed while in office.	Book review	Mar 2, 2009	1346
Ready to be an extremist again.	Column	Jan 19, 2009	770
My five minutes.		Mar 17, 2008	732
Emerging police state: imprisonment without trial and the torture of prisoners are hallmarks of an oppressive police state, yet George Bush and his administration openly promote these practices.		Jul 24, 2006	2170
The surveillance state unveiled: President Bush and adherents to his viewpoint have defended the idea that the government has a right to wiretap, but their assertions do not stand up to scrutiny.		Jun 26, 2006	2215
Endangering the Minutemen: credible reports indicate that the U.S. government is spying on border volunteers such as the Minutemen, and passing the intelligence on to the Mexican government.		Jun 12, 2006	1277
Jose can you see? The new Spanish "translation" of the National Anthem contains lyrics not in the original. Earnings from the recording will underwrite radical illegal immigration organizations.		May 29, 2006	485
The snitch on the net.		May 15, 2006	818
Myth vs. fact: politicians and pundits are defending illegal immigration with worn-out myths that can easily be proven wrong.		May 1, 2006	1049
Local police protect our borders: local police are finding themselves as the only line of defense against illegal immigration--even as the federal government increasingly strips authority from those same officials.		Apr 3, 2006	1247
The Iraq our soldiers are dying for: the new Iraqi government has a network of torture chambers and death squads run by a secret police network of Shi'ite militias loyal to "axis of evil" nation Iran.		Jan 9, 2006	1975
Homogenizing homosexuality: using techniques that allow a tiny minority to gain power over a complacent majority, homosexual activists are leading Massachusetts (and America) down into a moral abyss.		Nov 28, 2005	2254
Alito and the imperial presidency: the new Supreme Court nominee, Judge Samuel Alito, has supporters and detractors on both sides of the political divide because his judicial track record is mixed.		Nov 28, 2005	687
Empowering the executive branch: an issue that must not be overlooked regarding Supreme Court nominee Harriet E. Miers is her staunch support for the Bush agenda of executive branch empowerment.		Oct 31, 2005	1065
Good Luck finding the truth here: George Clooney's new movie Good Night and Good Luck continues the smear campaign against Senator Joseph McCarthy and lionizes leftist reporter Edward R. Murrow.		Oct 31, 2005	1323
Bush's foreign aid fanaticism: the Bush administration is overseeing huge infusions of money to the massively corrupt UN in the name of morally required foreign aid.		Oct 17, 2005	1746
Here come the UN army & police: the Bush administration has helped build a fledgling UN military and police force, increasing the likelihood that the U.S. will eventually subordinate itself to UN authority.		Oct 17, 2005	862
Imprisonment without trial.		Oct 3, 2005	858
Iraq's new descent into tyranny.	Correction Notice	Sep 19, 2005	811
I'm okay being middle-of-the-road.		Sep 19, 2005	865
U.S. blood is not buying a free Iraq: members of the Bush administration have repeatedly told Americans that Iraq is becoming a free and democratic society, but that claim is proving to be false.	Cover Story	Aug 22, 2005	2902
Behind the presidency: admire him or despise him, George W. Bush is essentially a figurehead for the tightly knit establishment oligarchy that actually runs the executive branch of our government.	Cover Story	Jul 25, 2005	3341
Neo-con star rising: Condoleezza Rice: as a darling of the neo-conservative syndicate that is running the presidency, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is poised for bigger things.		Jul 25, 2005	1283
Noticing the UN's dark side.		Jul 11, 2005	761
The world government two-step: regional arrangements such as the EU and the proposed FTAA supposedly promote free trade, but their real purpose is to gradually merge nations into a world government.		Jul 11, 2005	1436
The phony "free trade" lobby: why the so-called "free trade" lobby is pushing a trade agenda that actually reduces free trade and American independence.		May 16, 2005	2880
Who had the right to rule? Accusations about the abuses of constitutional authority in the Terri Schiavo case get cleared up.		May 2, 2005	1531
Fallacies about the Schiavo case: the case for starving and dehydrating Terri Schiavo to death was built on hypocrisy and deception.		Apr 18, 2005	1105
Fiery "lover of country": a man of explosive temperament, South Carolina's Christopher Gadsden willingly endured solitary confinement rather than forsake the cause of American independence.	Biography	Apr 18, 2005	3807
Supreme arrogance: in one of its rulings, the Supreme Court has once again stepped beyond its legal bounds, ending capital punishment for people under 18 years old. Adding insult to injury, the court explicitly cited foreign sources in the main text of its decision.		Apr 4, 2005	1219
Remaking Romney.		Mar 21, 2005	797
Bloated Bush budget.	Correction Notice	Mar 7, 2005	763