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There's still so much to learn from the nation's founding generation...

The Anti-Federalists and the administrative state Many of us have read the Federalist Papers, the articles penned by James Madison, John Jay and Alexander hamilton that helped win adoption of the U.S. Constitution. But almost as many are not familiar with the other side of the argument -- from the Anti-Federalists. They, too, wrote a series of arti...

Thomas Jefferson's last letter, on the meaning of liberty and independence.

Mr. Jefferson's declaration for us all Today marks the 243rd anniversary of America's independence. It's a time for celebration, appreciation, and also remembrance. One item we like to share, and remember, is the final letter the author ot the Delcaration of Independence -- Thomas Jefferson -- wrote on June 24, 1826 to Washington, D.C. m...

The greens are focused on the wrong problem....

The batty bag bans One sure way to raise the blood pressure of environmentalists is to bring up the topic of plastic bags. They detest the things, and believe governments should ban them as a way to prevent both litter and global warming. But do such bans actually work? According to Bjorn Lomborg, the bans won't do an...

Good.

Grassley calls out foreign influence One of the more troubling aspects to come out of Robert Mueller's investigation into in the 2016 presidential election is how determined Russia was to spread fear, lies, and misinformation. But as Sen. Charles Grassley notes in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, there's a more insidious, and ongo...

For an easier, but no less harrowing, look at federal finances...

A new, improved look at federal finances The federal government collects mountains of data on almost every subject imaginable -- including how much money Uncle Sam takes in from taxpayers, and spends on various budget items. Getting all that informaiton in one place, and presented in a way that's easy to understand has always been a challe...

GAO audits the IRS No one likes to be the subject of an IRS audit. But the IRS itself gets audited every year by the federal government's internal watchdog, the GAO, to make sure the agency is performing its duties as required.

And likely won't any time soon...

Uncle Sam can't pass an audit The Government Accountability Office has released its audit of the federal government's general fund. What is the watchdog agency's verdict?

Of course they do...

Congress wants a pay raise House Democrats have decided members of Congress have sacrificed enough, and deserve soemthing they haven't had in a decade...a pay raise:

It's come to this...

Progressives booing common sense Fourteen members of the ever-expanding Demcoratic presidential field got to address the California Democratic Party's recent meeting. It went pretty much as one would expect (much bashing of the president and a lot of expensive promises). But there was one surprising -- and very sad -- moment, too:

And now some good news...

The GAO guide to savings tens of billions of taxpayer dollars We've often written that the federal government's spending problem poses a genuine threat to our nation's long term security. But fixing the spending problems doesn't always mean painful cuts to critical programs or services. Very often, huge savings can be found simply by operating programs more ef...

Your tax dollars at work...

Export Import Bank giving loans to deadbeats The Export-Import Bank is a little known federal institution with a very long history of aiding and abetting crony capitalism. But the agency has another, even worse, ascpet to its operations: it's been giving taxpayer-backed loans to deadbeats. According to the Government Accountability Office: