Their Plans With Your Money
President Trump, Democrats, and Republicans have big plans with your taxes (and your children’s future payments) to fund the military, welfare programs, roads, abortions, etc. ...
About: Charles Scaliger
Posts by Charles Scaliger
What Happens When Republics Fall?
The very institutions that republics so painstakingly maintain to maximize the liberty of their citizens and the stability of their body politic are susceptible to perversion into instruments of...
Trump’s Towering Spending
Though President Donald Trump was elected to rein in government spending and taxing, his budget proposal would boost spending above Obama-era levels, increasing the deficit. ...
Why Isn’t the Largest Monopoly Broken Up?
Leaders of both political parties are ever on the lookout for new monopolies to tame. But the one monopoly that no one seems inclined to confront — Big Government...
Donald Trump: 1st Year
To the surprise of many of his right-wing critics, after his election, Donald Trump moved right in his policies, unlike Republican presidents from previous decades, who moved left. ...
Sheriff Richard Mack Runs for Congress
Richard Mack, the former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, who is nationally known for his high-profile victory over the Brady Bill during the Clinton administration, is running for Congress...
What Constitutes a Constitutional Crisis?
In scandal-ridden Washington, every crisis is a mortal threat to our constitutional order, or so the hysteria mongers in the mainstream news media would have us believe. ...
Catalonian Independence & the EU
Catalans, a people from northeastern Spain, and other groups wish to form their own countries. But the political entity running Europe — the EU — will not let that...
American Principles
The ongoing debate over tax cuts has been framed, as it always is, in stark terms: Either we stimulate the economy by cutting taxes — leading to a rise...
Can We Keep Our Constitution Under NAFTA?
NAFTA — like many other international trade and defense agreements to which the United States is a party — is in fact very deleterious to constitutional government. ...
NAFTA’s Realignment of Political Power
NAFTA is a steppingstone toward more integrated regional government; left to its own devices, it will not forever remain confined to trade. ...
Should a New Constitutional Convention Be Called to Fix the Constitution?
There is now a growing movement in favor of convening a new constitutional convention to correct a host of alleged deficiencies in the document. A constitutional convention is clearly...
Should Government Make Disrespecting the Flag or National Anthem Illegal?
The recent rush to kneel or otherwise refuse to show deference for the National Anthem among professional football players is deeply offensive to many patriotic Americans. But should such...
What’s Going On in Catalonia?
What's behind the Catalan bid for independence from Spain? ...
Natural Disasters and Government Aid
In the wake of devastation by recent hurricanes, calls are going out for federal aid, but private aid actually does most of the work, is more efficient, and is...