This will be the last installment of pictures from my family’s recent trip to the Washington D.C. area. These are just miscellaneous pictures I took while in the area, ones I thought might be of some interest to readers, especially those who have never been to the area.

As I said yesterday, you used to be able to laugh off most of the wacko drivel that came from the Left; it was so completely unfounded by reality and unsupported by the U.S. Constitution that you knew it would never go anywhere. But now we live in a day and age where many things that would have been considered unbelievably nutty 20 years ago are actually happening. So when a petition signed by over 53,000 people to arrest Republicans for disagreeing with President Obama is filed, it cannot be ignored.

Over the course of the 16-day government shutdown, the National Park Service went out of its way to make life as difficult as possible for as many Americans as they could. While the Senate was busy forming the final deal to end the government shutdown, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing taking National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis to task about his agency’s absurd treatment of the American people during the government shutdown.

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that South Dakota has joined with 17 states as Amicus Curiae or “friend of the Court” in a brief filed in the United States Supreme Court in support of First Amendment Rights. The amicus brief challenges the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decision that the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act did not violate religious principles in the operation of family-owned businesses.

In Part 1, we discussed the shortcomings of Michael Norton and Dan Ariely’s study, featured in the popular video “Wealth Inequality in America.” The filmmakers try to shock you with the distribution of wealth in America and then slyly suggest that most people would favor redistribution. But redistribution on the scale Norton and Ariely suggest primarily curtails economic growth rather than elevating the impoverished. Let’s apply their socialist ideas to a sample of two real people.

A foundational difference between a country that enjoys the benefits of limited government, individual liberty, personal freedom and economic opportunity, and one that suffers under the yoke of tyranny is that the former observes the rule of law and the latter witnesses the rule of whim.