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Should We Be Optimistic or Pessimistic about the Future of the Second Amendment?

by Dan Mitchell | Jul 19, 2013 | Blogs, Crime, Society

Fifty years from now (assuming we haven’t suffered a Greek-style fiscal collapse), will we still enjoy our constitutional freedom of private gun ownership? Sometimes I’m pessimistic about what will happen because politically correct educators are brainwashing our...

Majoritarianism Is Not Compatible with Individual Rights

by Dan Mitchell | Sep 10, 2012 | Blogs, Society

Thomas Sowell, George Will, and Walter Williams have all explained that the Constitution imposes strict limits on the powers of the federal government. This means, for all intents and purposes, that it is a somewhat anti-democratic document. And by anti-democratic, I...

Ambassador John Bolton Explains Need to Block Back-Door Gun Control Scheme from the United Nations

by Dan Mitchell | Jul 22, 2012 | Blogs, Uncategorized

I’m not a big fan of the United Nations and I’m not a supporter of gun control, so you can imagine how agitated I get when two bad things are combined together. And that’s exactly what’s happening with a new anti-gun treaty being concocted by the United Nations. John...

Obamacare’s Corrupt Conception, Sleazy Gestation, and Tawdry Birth

by Dan Mitchell | Jul 2, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care

One of my very first blog posts was about the link between big government and big corruption. For the rest of my life, I can now cite the Obamacare travesty as an example. Here’s some of what Tim Carney wrote for the Washington Examiner. Chief Justice John Roberts’...

Yes, the Federal Government Has a Broad Power to Tax, but that’s Different from Having a Green Light to Spend

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 28, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Constitution, Health Care

’m not a lawyer, or an expert on the Constitution, though I sometimes play one on TV. But I can read, and I’ll agree with my friends on the left that the federal government has a broad power to tax. I wish the 16th Amendment had never been ratified, but its language...
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