In determining the root of the differences between 'progressive' political objectives and those precepts promoted by the U.S. Constitution, the greatest mischief has been created through the ...

Where is it written in the Constitution that the government can mandate that its citizens buy health insurance and then enforce that mandate by hiring 16,000 IRS agents to confiscate refunds as a ...

Republican senators, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), are right to oppose legislation that would provide a broad federal bailout of highly indebted states. Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York ...

In the Oct. 26 Herald there was a very articulate and eloquent letter, “General welfare needs promoting.” The author would have us believe that the Constitution was established to “promote the general ...

The federal government has only the powers given to it by “We the People” in the Constitution. These powers are limited, specific and actually enumerated in Article 1, Section 8. There is no such ...

In examining the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, we have stated that it describes rights and duties — rights of We the People and duties of the federal government. It also assumes that the people ...

A Nov. 27 letter “The US Constitution favors the liberal left” was wrong. It claimed federally funded social programs are constitutional because of the General Welfare clause. It listed programs ...

There are two kinds of plunder, illegal and legal. The former is obvious and comes in the forms of robbery, burglary, extortion and fraud but they pale in comparison to the massive and pervasive ...