Tag Archives: Government

Competing Cultures Breaking Down America’s Culture

The governor’s race in Virginia this week proved that you can’t keep bashing America’s basic goodness by pushing the sheer stupidity of Critical Race Theory. You can’t force America’s children into hating each other via the color of their skin. You can’t make the whole Caucasian race guilty for all the conditions of some Black Americans. You cannot teach young people to detest their country if you hope to maintain … Read more...

The Green Dragon Tavern Still Lives!

The Green Dragon Tavern Still Lives
by Paul Nally

G’day, Lads and Lassies,


Ye Sons and Daughters of Liberty, take heart! The Green Dragon Tavern still lives!


Patience and planning are the watchwords. As Congressman Davey Crockett once said, “Be sure you’re right … then go ahead!”


This long train of abuses by these three branches of this government have now countenanced intolerable acts of Despotism, fostered
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Is Our System of Government Cracking?


The Madison Forum was pleased to have Attorney and former  Congressman Bob Barr, Madison Forum Member, speak at the February breakfast meeting. The topic of Bob’s speech was “Is Our System of Government Cracking Under the Strain (Emergency Powers, Rogue Law Enforcement, the Rise of Socialists, and the 25th Amendment).”

Bob’s vast experience including his time working for the CIA, U.S. Congress, Federal Prosecution, as well as teaching … Read more...

The Politics of Impeachment

By Randy Evans

Desperate people do desperate things, whether in sports or politics. As Democrats concede that they face “strong headwinds” in the upcoming November midterm elections, most pollsters and pundits concede that 2014 could be another historic election year with huge gains for Republicans. Meanwhile, Republicans have adopted a bunker mentality hoping to avoid the kinds of catastrophic gaffes that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in years … Read more...

Something Special for Christmas

By J. Randolph Evans

So, here are the two dates to mark on the calendar: November 23, 2011 (the day before Thanksgiving) and December 23, 2011 (two days before Christmas). What makes these dates special?

Wednesday, November 23, 2011 is the deadline for the so-called Congressional ‘super-committee’ (actually named the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction) to issue its recommendations for at least $1.5 trillion in federal deficit reductions over Read more...

Limited Government Is Good Business – Just The Numbers, Mam

By Les Dunaway

“When institutions protect the liberty of individuals, greater prosperity results for all.”

Adam Smith in “The Wealth of Nations”, 1776

This truth is a key measure of the fitness of a government to survive. When any government fails this test, the citizens of that government must resort to another statement, written the same year:

…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, Read more...