Larry P. Arnn
President, Hillsdale College

Outline of a Platform for Constitutional Government
By Larry Arnn
Posted Dec. 24, 2010

THERE IS ONLY one way to return to living under the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the institutions of the Constitution. We must come to love those things again. And if we love them, then we will serve them. But we cannot love them until we understand them. And we cannot understand them until we know them.

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Education, Economics, and Self-Government
By Larry P. Arnn
Posted Dec. 14, 2009

Once you deny the existence of absolute truth, the definition of "good" becomes subjective and the only standard of behavior is what we want—"we," in the political sense, meaning the government or bureaucracy. It reduces politics not to right, but to force. That is why there is this bullying spirit about our government today, and why so many Americans are worried. It is time for that to stop, and there are two conditions for stopping it. The first is for the ordinary folk of the United States to see in this the despotism that it is, and to rise up and repudiate it. The second thing is longer term, but equally vital: It is to replace leaders who have bad educations with leaders who have good educations.

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José Maria Anzar
Former Prime Minister of Spain

The Choices Facing Europe
By José Maria Anzar
August 1, 2006

In reality, Islamic terrorism has created a new bipolar conflict: them against us, in a global war in which our very way of life is at stake. On March 11, 2004, Islamic terrorists living in Spain attacked my country; last July 7, and again on July 21, other Islamic fanatics struck at the heart of London. So we can see that Europeans are not safe from the terrorist threat. And, to answer those who claim that everything is simply a product of U.S. policies, we should point out that Europe has taken a non-confrontational approach when it comes to handling Islamist radicals, both at home and abroad.

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David Bozeman

What’s the Problem with Lobbyists?
By David Bozeman
Liberty Features Syndicate
Oct. 7, 2010

With Democratic prospects for the mid-terms growing dimmer by the day, tying Republicans to lobbyists seems to be the defensive weapon of choice.

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'Vengeance Is Mine,' Saith the Tax Man
By David Bozeman
Liberty Features Syndicate
Jan. 26, 2010

So, we now predicate national tax policy on the public’s thirst for revenge [against greedy bankers] and boosting Obama’s poll numbers?

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Carter Clews

Lindsey Graham's Sordid Self
By Carter Clews
Executive Editor of ALG News
Nov. 2, 2009

Once the hero of the conservative movement for his courageous stand against the libidinal Bill Clinton in the House impeachment proceedings of 1998, Lindsey Graham has since evanesced into a mere shadow of his once-stalwart self. Or, for that matter, of any other wannabe leader with scarcely a thimbleful of testosterone flowing through his anemic system. Today, Graham is little more than the ever-eager turn-to guy whenever the hard left needs a squishy sycophant to carry its water through the corridors of Congress.

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David Cribbin
President of Tailwind Capital

Reaping What You Sow
October 11, 2010

THE ECONOMIC POLICIES that the Obama Administration has implemented through legislation, and countenanced by appointing Timothy “Weak Dollar” Geithner to the position of Treasury Secretary, and re-appointing as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben “I’m printing Money til it hurts” Bernanke are having the opposite effect of what this administration and all of their reputable economists had assured would now be happening , and it’s not good. What is true in farming is also true in economics: You reap what you sow! When you plant lima beans all the backyard town-halls and campus rallies in the world will not produce a crop of beautiful beefsteak tomatoes. You can blame it on the weather and the soil, you can even blame the Republicans, but come harvest time you are going to be stuck eating lima beans and your words. The stagnant economy that we endure today is what you reap when you have sown an economic policy mix that gets it totally wrong.

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Charles Drevna
President, National Petrochemical & Refiners Association

U.S. Needs Reality-Based Energy Policy
Posted Jan. 10, 2011

JUST ABOUT EVERYONE agrees that America needs more jobs, more domestic manufacturing and greater energy security. We can have all these things if the Obama administration works with Congress in 2012 to pursue policies that take advantage of America’s tremendous energy resources in an environmentally responsible manner.

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Curtis Dubay
American Heritage Institute

Tax Increase Would Kill Economic Growth, Jobs
By Curtis Dubay
October 18, 2010

A STEADY STREAM of disappointing economic numbers indicates that the nation may be on the cusp of yet another job-destroying recession that could put more Ohio workers out of a job. It is in this troubled economic environment that President Barack Obama and his allies are pressing ahead with plans to raise taxes. Higher taxes always mean slower economic growth and fewer jobs.

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Brian T. Kennedy
President, The Claremont Institute

It's Never Just  "the Economy, Stupid"
By Brian T. Kennedy
Posted March 23, 2011

WE ARE OFTEN told that we possess the most powerful military in the world and that we will face no serious threat for some time to come. We are comforted with three reassurances aimed at deflecting any serious discussion of national security: (1) that Islam is a religion of peace; (2) that we will never go to war with China because our economic interests are intertwined; and (3) that America won the Cold War and Russia is no longer our enemy. But these reassurances are myths, propagated on the right and left alike. We believe them at our peril, because serious threats are already upon us.

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Sung-yoon Lee
The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Keeping the Peace: America in Korea, 1950-2010
By Sung-Yoon Lee
Posted Feb. 21, 2011

"The great and noble efforts of Americans in the Korean War, the legacy of a 60-year friendship between the U.S. and South Korea, and U.S. strategic interests should not now be sacrificed on the altar of diplomatic peace."

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Seth Lipsky
Founding Editor, New York Sun

The Floating Dollar as a Threat to Property Rights
By Seth Lipsky
Posted March 12, 2011

"The question I invite you to consider for a moment is what would happen if we just let the kilogram float? This is a question that was posed in an editorial last week in the New York Sun. After all, the editorial said, we let the dollar float. The creation of dollars, and the status of the dollar as legal tender, is a matter of fiat. Its value is adjusted by the mandarins at the Federal Reserve, depending on variables they only sometimes share with the rest of the world. This would have floored the Framers of our Constitution, who granted Congress the power to coin money and regulate its value in the same sentence in which they gave it the power to fix the standard of weights and measures—like, say, the aforementioned kilogram."

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Stephen Markman
Michigan Supreme Court 

The Coming Constitutional Debate
By Stephen Markman
April 31, 2010

"Proponents of a “21st century constitution” or “living constitution” aim to transform our nation’s supreme law beyond recognition—and with a minimum of public attention and debate. Indeed, if there is an overarching theme to what they wish to achieve, it is the diminishment of the democratic and representative processes of American government."

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Tom McClintock
U.S. House of Representatives (R-California)

A Response to a McClatchy Newspaper Editorial Smearing Supporters of Birthright Citizenship Reform as 'Racist'
By U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock
August 27, 2010

"I have extolled the virtues of legal immigration throughout my entire career in public office. Unlike most nations, our immigration laws were not written to keep people out. They were written to assure that as immigrants come to America, they come with the intention to become Americans and to fully assimilate into American society by acquiring a common language, a common culture and a common allegiance to American constitutional principles. Illegal immigration undermines the entire process of legal immigration that makes our nation of immigrants possible."

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A Response to Mexico President Calderon's Address to Congress
By U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock
May 20, 2010

"It is an outrage that a foreign head of state would appear in this chamber and actively seek to [undermine our immigration laws]. And it is a disgrace that he would be cheered on from the left wing of the White House and by many Democrats in this Congress."

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William McGurn
Vice President, News Corporation

The Not So Dismal Science: Humanitarians v. Economists
By William McGurn
Posted March 20, 2011

"THIS EVENING I PROPOSE to take on one of the greatest libels in the English language: the description of economics as “the dismal science.” I hold a different view—that when it comes to seeing the potential in even the most desperate citizens of this earth, our economists, business leaders, and champions of a commercial republic are often far ahead of our progressives, artists, and humanitarians. And therein lies my tale."

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Adam Meyerson
President, The Philanthropy Roundtable

The Generosity of Americans
By Adam Meyerson
Posted Jan. 25, 2010

Charitable giving in America has never been the exclusive province of wealthy people. Throughout our history, Americans from all walks of life have given generously for charitable causes....These philanthropic achievements have all been made possible by freedom.... But these freedoms are now under serous threat.

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Terry Miller

United States not as Free as It Used To Be
By Terry Miller
The Heritage Foundation
Jan. 20, 2010

The U.S. economy is no longer "free" according to the "2010 Index of Economic Freedom," a 485-page analysis of the world's economies prepared by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal.

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Victor Morawski

Pollution as a Capital Offense
By Victor Morawski
Oct. 30, 2009

ARE THERE cases of environmental pollution that are so egregious that the polluters should be punished as murderers? Absolutely, says Obama EPA Administrator Lisa Heinzerling. And she is willing to wipe out half of the world’s population to prove her point.

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David Nye

The Really Dark Side of the Proposed Employee 'Free Choice' Act
By David Nye
Liberty Features Syndicate
Feb. 24, 2010

Under EFCA, [the existing] check on excessive union demands disappears. Through its arbitration panels, the Obama administration would effectively write labor contracts to fulfill the wishes of its union friends, and union monopoly would no longer be "quasi." It would be complete.

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Mike Pence

The Presidency and the Constitution
By U.S. Rep. Mike Pence
Posted Nov. 23, 2010

THE PRESIDENCY is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people. Its powers are vast and consequential, its requirements impossible for mortals to fulfill without humility and insistent attention to its purpose as set forth in the Constitution of the United States. Isn’t it amazing, given the great and momentous nature of the office, that those who seek it seldom pause to consider what they are seeking? Rather, unconstrained by principle or reflection, there is a mad rush toward something that, once its powers are seized, the new president can wield as an instrument with which to transform the nation and the people according to his highest aspirations.

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Howard Rich

The Folly of Stimulation
By Howard Rich
Chairman, Americans for Limited  Government 
Oct. 14, 2010

NO PUBLIC OFFICIAL has been more integrally involved in the federal government's "Great Intervention" than U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

Over the course of three years (and two administrations), Bernanke has aggressively and successfully lobbied for trillions of dollars in government bailouts, deficit spending, loan guarantees and "quantitative easing." From his perch at the secretive Fed, Bernanke has also kept interest rates artificially low by investing heavily in treasuries – although these low borrowing costs have chiefly benefited the government, not the American people.

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The "Toxic" Truth About TARP
By Howard Rich
Chairman, Americans for Limited  Government 
Oct. 5, 2010

Economists in their taxpayer-funded ivory towers will no doubt continue to do battle over hypothetical contingencies, but that doesn't change the fact that 8 million [private sector] jobs vanished in just over a year's time – and those jobs aren't coming back anytime soon. Meanwhile, none of the TARP money that's been repaid to the U.S. government thus far is actually being returned to taxpayers. Nor is it being used to pay down America's ballooning debt. Instead, it's being spent on new bailouts, more borrowing and additional deficit spending.

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Education:
“Superman” and Silver Bullets
By Howard Rich
Chairman, Americans for Limited  Government 
Sept. 5, 2010

There may be no such thing as a silver bullet in public policy, but universal parental choice is the closest thing we have to one — assuming our politicians summon the courage to run with it. And based on the current trajectory of academic achievement in America, it is clear this courage needs to be summoned immediately.

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Obama's Bogus Budget Cuts
By Howard Rich
Chairman, Americans for Limited  Government 
June 15, 2010

"IN ITS LATEST ATTEMPT to mitigate public outrage over out-of-control government growth, the administration of President Barack Obama has instructed a handful of federal agencies to cut their budgets by five percent....  The reality is that Obama isn’t cutting anything – not a dime. In fact, his budget office is calling for the so-called “savings” accrued from these “cuts” to be pumped into additional government growth."

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No Ceiling and the Sky Is Falling
By Howard Rich
Chairman, Americans for Limited Government
Dec. 8, 2009

THE IRONY of the United States’ current financial situation is that it would be absolutely impossible for any business or private citizen to ever wind up in such dire straits. It literally couldn’t happen, as there are far too many safeguards that would kick in to prevent the sort of uncontrolled, addictive descent into unprecedented debt (and deficit spending) that we currently see gripping Washington D.C.

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ObamaCare: How The Unions Are “Getting Well”
By Howard Rich
Chairman, Americans for Limited Government
Dec. 1, 2009

Both versions of ObamaCare do something far worse than slipping billions of dollars into the pockets of organized labor leaders as a payoff for their support in the 2008 election: They actively seek the forced unionization of the entire health care industry.

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Robert Romano

The Slaughterhouse Lies
By Robert Romano
ALG
March 17, 2010

It has been called blatantly unconstitutional. Talk show host Mark Levin has declared it a “brazen and open violation of one of the most fundamental aspects of our Constitution.” At controversy is a plan by Congresswoman Louise Slaughter to enact the Senate version of ObamaCare without actually voting upon the bill itself.

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Phyllis Schlafly
President, Eagle Forum

Reevaluating "Free Trade" with China
By Rand Phyllis Schlafly
December 31, 2010

THE VOTERS who elected the new Congress expect it to cast off unconstitutional and discredited policies such as Keynesian big-spending and judicial grabbing of legislative prerogatives. We also hope Congress will shake itself loose from the dishonest, anti-American trade policies of other countries, especially Communist China.

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Obama's Health Control Law Must Be Repealed
By Phyllis Schlafly
May 22, 2010

"We must not compromise with evil. And Obama's Health Control law is evil, harmful, and dangerous to Americans, destructive of our freedom, and unconstitutional."

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Emily Shlaes

The Rules of the Game and Economic Recovery
By Emily Shlaes
Senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations
September 30, 2010

If the experience of the Great Depression teaches anything, it is that property rights must be firmly established or else we will not have the kind of economic activity that leads to strong recovery.

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Walter Williams

Prospects for Economic Liberty
By Walter Williams
Professor of Economics, George Mason Univ.  
Aug. 2, 2009

If we’re not going to go down the tubes as a great nation, we must get about changing things while we still have the liberty to do so.

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Bill Wilson

Will the Senate Torpedo ObamaCare?
By Bill Wilson
President, Americans for Limited Government
Nov. 9, 2009

Now that the House has passed the $2.1 trillion ObamaCare abomination by the slimmest of margins, the scene shifts to the Senate. There, members will be put to the test as to whether to pass the single largest redistribution of the wealth in U.S. history.

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Unsigned Guest Editorials

Congress Must Hear Constituents, Reject ObamaCare
Guest Editorial from Americans for Limited Government
Nov. 3, 2009

Every single Rasmussen poll since September 13-14 has had opposition [to ObamaCare] polling at 50 percent or greater, and support for the bill has not risen above 46 percent for almost two months.... Will members represent the will of their constituents, or those of the political elite in Washington who seek to force their will upon the American people?

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