Congress and the President Square off on Who Can Initiate War; Sanctity of the Constitution is at Stake
By Dr Harold W. Pease Recent presidents have so mutilated the clear language of the Constitution as to the authority to make war that congressional pushback, even from the weak Congress we now have, was inevitable. That pushback came in a recent…
U.S. Drops to the Tenth Freest Nation on Earth: Now Listed as Mostly Free
By Dr. Harold Pease For nearly two decades the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal have teamed-up tracking and rating the 184 nations of the earth on economic freedom. In their 2012 ratings “Hong Kong and Singapore finished first and…
Government Spying on Your Social Media and the Media Monitoring Initiative
By Dr. Harold Pease Last week a young college student approached me after class with a very disturbing concern. He had just been interrogated by the FBI for making a video three years ago of him exploding a fire cracker and placing the video on…
Straight Thinking on Iran
By Dr. Harold Pease Three of the four remaining Republican presidential candidates and the present occupant of the White House appear to be, or are favorable to, provoking Iran for a response worthy of a preemptive strike. Only Ron Paul, of our…
Saving Medicare?
By Dr. Harold Pease Both parties have succumbed to the temptation of getting elected by promising ever more goodies from the public coffers, irrespective of constitutional limits, and to the point that they have irresponsibly enslaved our children…
Presidents’ Day, What Would Abraham Lincoln Say?
By Dr. Harold Pease President Barack Obama’s favorite president, as is the case with so many Americans, is Abraham Lincoln who shares a national holiday, Presidents Day, with George Washington. But this bond certainly could not be because of shared…
Social Security Can Be Saved, With Far Better Benefits
Dr. Harold W. Pease With our national debt growing by $4 billion a day and Congress giving up offering any real solutions, we are a speeding train heading for a cliff. Most pretend the problem is not real or will just go away. No presidential…
The Tea Party Debt Commission Found $9.7 Trillion to Cut
By Dr. Harold W. Pease The French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville in 1840, once prophetically said, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the publics’ money.” That day is…
Demonstration Against National Defense Authorization Act.
Those who oppose The National Defense Authorization Act. which authorizes the military to arrest, detain without trial, and deport to Cuba American citizens without benefit of Bill of Rights protection are encouraged to participate in a national…