Apparently, Americans have confused representative government for a monarchy or some other form of arbitrary dictatorial government. American government represents the American people, it does not dictate to them. Americans have successfully taught politicians that they can do what they will, when they want and without the consequences of violating the law.

How should policymakers stop the bleeding of American jobs overseas? There’s one easy answer among many harder ones, and that is to stop making it so expensive to do business in the United States. Many things price American workers out of competition, whether it be the current mix of trade rules, currency manipulation and other unfair labor practices but the easiest to address domestically is the corporate tax rate. Government’s unwillingness to do with less is making it considerably harder for Americans to even work. Seriously, why should American corporations pay a 39 percent rate, among the world’s highest, to headquarter here when they can “invert” to Ireland and pay 12.5 percent, less than one third the domestic rate? If the corporation can keep most of their American workforce and keep 26.5 percent more of their money as an alternative by cutting the corporate tax rate, wouldn’t that a good […]

He’s the unprincipled populist. The Johnny-come-lately whose lack of Constitutional principles are only outshined by his lack of Biblical principles. He is a deal maker and an agitator. He may very well be Hillary’s golden ticket.

I’ve been called a fascist by communists and a communist by fascists. I’ve been called a pagan by Christians and a Christian by pagans. I’ve been called an optimist by pessimists and a pessimist by optimists. All of us have been labeled by others. We’ve all been called this by that and that by this, we’ve all had people try to insult us by how they refer to us, but when people insult our intelligence, they are usually showing their ignorance.

Long before the incident in North Carolina where a Trump supporter punched a black man, the January YouGov/Economist poll showed the results of Trump supporters when asked if they supported or disapproved of Lincoln’s executive order that freed all slaves in the U.S. Shockingly, 1 in 5 said they disapproved of the order.