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These are dark days for American lovers of liberty, so any glimmers of light are especially welcome. Let’s start with “Sandwich Man.” The world knows him as the pink-shirted guy who shouted at federal agents patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C. After some aggressive language ...
Concerns about the Federal Reserve’s independence have grown following repeated attacks by President Donald Trump, including this week’s decision to fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook based on questionable allegations. But this debate is too narrowly focused on the president’s political pressure, ...
“It is (my) intention to ... demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal ...
San Diego — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is bringing a whoopee cushion to a constitutional crisis. By mocking President Donald Trump on social media, Newsom thinks he is making voters laugh. What he is really doing is making a big mistake. These are dark days for our democracy. And ...
Seems like only yesterday when warnings that Donald Trump qualified as a neo-fascist and that what he was selling qualified as neo-fascism guaranteed rolled eyes, dismissals that the warnings were hysterical, and cries of “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” a neat little expression utilized by ...
Even before America became a country, Americans already had a habit of freaking out about even minor violations of abstract principles. “In other countries, the people ... judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance,” observed Edmund Burke, the great British ...