How much government is “enough government” to get the job done? We now live in an era where we no longer care what our nation’s highest law says, and lawlessness is the order of the day, taxers and spenders look for things to take away from the private sector and put into the hands of government.

It’s been exactly 7 years since Rick Santelli’s Feb. 19, 2009 emotional appeal against foreclosure bailouts on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, arguing on behalf of homeowners who paid their bills on time and in full who were being asked to also assume the costs of their neighbors who were delinquent in their payments and not credit-worthy to begin with.

House Republicans left dozens of important policy riders and measures that defund various parts of the Obama agenda on the table during the failed omnibus negotiation, but that doesn’t mean that their work should go for naught.

As has always been the case for Americans, the new year is a time for setting new goals, seeking restoration and renewal, shedding harmful habits, and resolving to do better in the future. Here are some resolutions that our nation would do well to adopt for 2016.

The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which for 10 years has provided vouchers for low-income minority children in Washington, D.C., to escape from one of the nation’s worst public school systems and attend a private school, was not reauthorized in this latest spending orgy.

Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued arelease hailing the passage of his omnibus federal spending bill titled, “House Passes Spending Bill to Advance Republican Priorities.” If the omnibus advances Republican priorities, the GOP officially died on Dec. 18, 2015.

Both houses of congress have now had a chance to vote on the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that funds the Obama Agenda, including open borders, executive amnesty, more H2-B visas for low-skilled foreign workers, an increase in spending, Planned Parenthood, wind farm tax credits, President Obama’s racial zoning quotas, and ObamaCare.

Conservative members of Congress will have to decide whether there is enough in the omnibus to get them to a yes vote, but somehow we doubt for many there is. The political costs of funding the last year of Obama’s agenda may be far too high headed into a volatile election year where primary challenges are the last thing an incumbent member wants to hear about.

Unless you’re careful, a lot of debt with little to show for it. Since 1978, college has gone up over 1000%, where the inflation rate has been 265. This fattens up the college establishment (the administrators and professors), but doesn’t give you a better education. Many of the degree programs don’t prepare you for a job. They teach you about things there is little demand for in the real world. Cross country ballroom dancing, how to give a king a really hard time. Government-especially in today’s irresponsible age-doesn’t care if you dig yourself tens of thousands of dollars (or more) into debt right out of high school. Interest from student loans keeps the cash rolling in to the insatiable government maw, so that’s fine with them.  Politicians from both parties don’t care if you accrue more debt-after all, they have you over $18 trillion in the hole on the national […]

The Declaration of Independence personifies American character and in that document Americans declared acts of King George to be null and void. These acts were referred to by our founders as “pretended legislation”. In other words, the acts of King George were not law because they were not lawful. That is to say, there was no foundation on which they could stand since they violated the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.