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The following is an op-ed I had published at The Daily Caller today. Oral arguments over the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will wrap up Wednesday. The Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling in June. In the meantime, conservatives, constitutionalists and libertarians will anxiously await the Supreme Court’s decision, [...]
photo credit: sfPhotocraft Double standards are found everywhere in the words and actions of the political class. One of the most striking examples comes from the religious right which likes to claim that it is “pro-life” while usually also being in favor of war. This hypocritical position renders meaningless their claim to supporting life—you cannot [...]
In the wake of a massive scandal rocking the young LDS Church and the city of Nauvoo its members largely inhabited, John C. Bennett resigned his position as Mayor (and was excommunicated from the Church). At a city council meeting two days later, the prophet Joseph Smith was overwhelmingly elected by the council to replace [...]
Here’s my latest op-ed, published at the Davis Clipper. Once the U.S. Constitution was signed and sent to the various states for consideration in 1787, a passionate and sometimes heated debate immediately began. Writing together under the pseudonym “Publius,” the arguments advanced by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay were widely published and later [...]
photo credit: Invisible Children In just three days, the half-hour video produced by Invisible Children to highlight a Ugandan warmonger oppressing little kids has reached over 12 million people. (Edit: in less than a week, it has been viewed 70 million times.) Many of those millions are now loudly parroting the message advanced by the [...]
The following is an op-ed I had published at The Daily Caller today. Has the federal government become so arrogant as to claim ownership of the land over which it has jurisdiction? Put differently, does the United States of America exist to protect and defend the property of each individual living within its borders, or [...]
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