Michael Zak writes how corruption is turning Capitol Hill into Tammany Hill: Tammany Hall, now a metaphor for Democrat corruption, began as a real place. It was a building, in fact, the headquarters of the New York Democratic Party. During the 19th century and early 20th centuries, Tammany Hall was the foremost center of power [...]

Aaron Burr · William "Boss" Tweed

Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic writes: In his Farenheit 9/11, filmmaker Michael Moore juxtaposes images and words of a terrorist attack in Israel with President Bush’s first words about the incident, spoken to a press pool on a golf course, with him leaning casually against a tree. Today, as the nation’s law enforcement agencies respond [...]

Linda Biamonte · Marc Ambinder · The Atlantic

Click here to read The Crisis, by Thomas Paine, which is the Revolutionary War pamphlet Lieutenant Colonel Allen West quotes. 

Revolutionary War Pamphlet · The Crisis · Thomas Paine

Thank you, Charles Lukens, for sharing the following parable:  The Dinner Roll Once upon a time I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the President. I am a respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for computers and portable electronics. There was some talk that my industry was [...]

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John Tamny writes a brilliant piece in Forbes Magazine entitled “Unconstitutional Spending.”   The article points out how the Tenth Amendment to our Constitution has been neglected more and more as time goes on.   The Tenth Amendment reads: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are [...]

10th Amendment · Abolish Federal Income Tax · Forbes Magazine · John Tamny · Tenth Amendment