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The Man in the Van

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ESPN’s Eli Saslow tells the story of Blue Jays top prospect and “Van Man,” Daniel Norris. Mr. Norris is the owner of an arm that can consistently throw a 92-mph fast ball and a 1978 VW Camper in which he currently resides behind a Wal-Mart in Florida. Saslow writes: Before the Blue Jays understood his […]

Sunnis Against ISIS

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Originally posted March 3, 2015. Pat Buchanan writes, “As the Shiites are already engaged against ISIS, we should inform our Sunni friends—the Turks, Egyptians, Saudis, Gulf Arabs: As you are the most threatened here, you are the first responders to this blaze. We will have your back, but we will not fight your war or […]

Rand Paul, a GOP Nomination Lock?

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Absolutely a lock if every American voter has read even the dust jacket cover of Chris Preble’s (Cato Institute) The Power Problem and concludes correctly with Mr. Preble’s exhaustive and, to me, irrefutable conclusion: America’s “military dominance actually makes us less safe, less prosperous, and less free.” Preble’s solution to the problem is “a more […]

Unending Wars Create American Enemies

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Writing in the American Conservative, my friend Jon Basil Utley writes, “Allied with the Christian Zionists is much of the military industrial complex. It is a key industry in many congressional districts benefiting from unending wars, that create more and more enemies for America.” Utley writes: The Israeli Lobby represents less than half of American […]

Prevent the Establishment of a Standing Army

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James Madison’s Vice President, Signer of Declaration of Independence, Delegate to the Constitutional Convention and Governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry said, “What Sir is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty…. Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, […]

King v. Burwell—Policy to Trump Law?

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My friend and Cato Institute scholar Roger Pilon shines light into a scary dark Supreme Court corner. Roger warns, “As many of us feared, however, it appears that the focus of several of the justices, perhaps a majority, was less on the law than on the ‘dire consequences’ that would follow if the Court decided […]

A Large Standing Military is Unneeded

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Originally posted October 7, 2013. I agree 100% with this Cato Institute analysis by John Mueller. Dealing with current threats mainly calls for policing and intelligence work with occasional focused strikes by special units as necessary. There is no need for the maintenance of a large standing military force. Moreover, the U.S. should not pay for those […]

Unconstitutional Presidential Hubris and Disregard

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At the end of his rope! Now Obama wants to bypass Congress and raise taxes at his own free “executive” will. When will Americans finally say enough is enough to one of the most dangerous presidents in American history? Peter Schroeder writes at The Hill: With Senate Democrats openly pushing the administration to take its own action […]

Obama’s Executive Action on Taxes?

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From the Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell: “Now the White House Wants to Raise Taxes without Congressional Approval?!?” Dr. Mitchell cites relevant text from the Constitution, as contained in the official repository at the National Archives: “All Bills raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.” Dan continues, “Maybe I’m not a very careful reader, […]

Maintain Pentagon Spending Caps

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Niskanen Center’s Matthew Fay, in an open letter to the House Budget Committee, advises maintaining the caps on defense spending established by the 2011 Budget Control Act. (BCA). Fay and the Niskanen Center, along with other pro-liberty organizations wrote: Recent news articles point to an effort by some to get Congress to break the caps […]