By: David French – nationalreview.com – February 21, 2018 Banning them would gut the concept of an armed citizenry as a final, emergency bulwark against tyranny. Arguments about guns tend to suffer from two distinct problems. The first — and most obvious — is they quickly get screechy. The arguments devolve into shouting matches and temper tantrums. The goal...

By: Michael D. Shear – nytimes.com – February 20, 2018 The president asked the Justice Department to propose regulations that would ban “bump stocks,” which can convert a semiautomatic gun into an automatic weapon. President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice...

By: John W. Whitehead – rutherford.org – June 26, 2017 “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” ― William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice, dissenting in Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 341 (1966) The government has become an expert in finding...

By: John Fund – Nationalreview.com – February 18, 2018 In the wake of the Florida school shooting, can we now have a real conversation about what is wrong with the FBI? Howard Finkelstein, the Broward County public defender whose office is representing Nikolas Cruz, the suspect in the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., puts it bluntly: This kid exhibited every...

jbs.org The Founders’ Solution to Out-of-Control Government: Article VI, Not V America’s Founders fought a war for independence from out-of-control Big Government. Then they created a new government limited to its proper role of protecting the God-given rights of the people. The Constitution is a set of rules that governs the government, not the people. It allows We the People to...

By: Robert Knight – townhall.com – February 13, 2018 According to The Washington Post, which should know, Democrats are moving even farther left in an effort to appeal to more Americans. According to The Washington Post, which should know, Democrats are moving even farther left in an effort to appeal to more Americans. A new role model for them might...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 15, 2018 Trump will never get a victory if he won’t “take the heat.” President Trump may need a refresher course in deal-making after the Senate on Thursday rejected his take-it-or-leave-it offer on immigration. He could start by recalling who’s President, and stop giving adviser Stephen Miller a policy veto. The Senate considered four...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – February 15, 2018 Defending the Second Amendment takes courage, despite what gun-control advocates say. Defending the Second Amendment takes courage, gun-control advocates’ claims to the contrary notwithstanding. Every single time America is rocked by a mass shooting, the insults come raining down: Conservatives and Republican politicians who oppose new gun-control laws aren’t just wrong,...

By: David French – NationalReview.com – February 12, 2018 What’s behind the fawning over North Korea — one of the world’s most brutal regimes? When it comes to whitewashing North Korea, one mainstream-media article is a problem. Two is a travesty. But what about three, then four, then five? What if some of them adopt a seemingly celebratory tone as...

By: Arthur Schaper – townhill.com – February 11, 2018 My Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) hosted another error-ridden town hall in Hermosa Beach last week. On immigration, he claimed to support two parts of President Trump’s proposed(?) plan: granting legal status to 1.8 million young illegals; and enhancing border security (although Lieu called the border wall “stupid”). He differed on ending...