Category — For The Record

The government is engaging in an expansion of executive power so far beyond constitutional limits as to be unimaginable only a decade ago. It doesn't bode well for future generations of Americans lining up for indoctrination.   Read the rest of this entry »

There has never been a time in this country where the destitute were denied basic medical care. Doctors made allowances in their billing, and the poor could find hospital care when needed. Until the government got involved ...   Read the rest of this entry »

In his new book, Mr. President How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive, Ray Raphael investigates the roots and evolution of the Executive Branch. For anyone wishing to understand how the presidency came to be what it is, this is the book to read.   Read the rest of this entry »

The French philosopher/economist Frederic Bastiat explains the purpose of government, the derivation of natural rights, and the pitfalls of intrusive government in his essay, The Law. In setting the groundwork for his essay, Bastiat shows what the Framers of the American Experiment had in mind.   Read the rest of this entry »

Periodically, I get so busy working and trying to stay on top of what I need to do to fend for my family, that I forget that Obama and the American Left have declared war on me. I have to be reminded from time to time.   Read the rest of this entry »

On President's Day it seems fitting that we let the men who've held the title speak for themselves.   Read the rest of this entry »

William Moultrie was a general from South Carolina in the Revolutionary War. He was a man of honor and integrity as these letters will attest. When the royal governor of South Carolina, Lord Charles Montagu, attempted to convince him to switch sides, Moultrie rebuffed his efforts in no uncertain terms. Moultrie was a prisoner at the time, having been captured when Charleston fell to the British in 1780.   Read the rest of this entry »

The "food stamp" president isn't much on individual liberty. When his policies end in disaster, he always blames someone else. Lately, he's adopted Truman's strategy of blaming that darned Congress. He seems to have forgotten that until a few months ago, it was a Democrat controlled Congress.   Read the rest of this entry »

In the Niles Weekly Register of 1812, there were two mentions of a most interesting invention - a perpetual motion machine. Apparently a "great number of gentleman" examined the apparatus and were "satisfied that it is what what the inventor declared it to be."   Read the rest of this entry »

Next to the teleprompter, Obama relies most heavily on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s playbook. There is little Obama has said or done – from his relentless conduct of class warfare to favoring political cronies with federal cash – that FDR didn’t do, or attempt to do. The parallels are striking.   Read the rest of this entry »