The federal government released the good news that revenue collections have reached an all-time high with total receipts of $1.935 trillion from October 1, 2013 to the end of May. Yet, even with this unprecedented flow of cash into the nation’s Treasury, the October-May deficit is an astounding $436 billion with May’s deficit alone totaling almost $130 billion.

The Watchman examines the origin and rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) now making disturbing inroads in Iraq. This al Qaeda offshoot that is too radical even for al Qaeda has basically become not just a terrorist organization, but a terrorist army.

In 1974, then-special prosecutor Leon Jaworski issued a subpoena for the infamous White House tapes. On one tape, eighteen minutes were missing. Today, the IRS is missing emails that deal with harassment of Tea Party groups. Will congress hold Obama accountable?

The militia, as our Founders structured it, is not some optional, superfluous element of civil government. Rather it is at the heart and core of the Republic of these united States. Indeed for any State in this Union to fail to maintain and keep a true militia would indicate that State was and is in violation of the Supreme Law of the Land, the U.S. Constitution.

If the United States is a police state, then the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is its national police force, with all the brutality, ineptitude and corruption such a role implies. In fact, although the DHS’ governmental bureaucracy may at times appear to be inept and bungling, it is ruthlessly efficient when it comes to building what the Founders feared most—a standing army on American soil.

The libertarians (and many conservatives) want the individual to triumph over the state: maximum freedom and minimum state. On the other hand the liberal holds to “positive rights” of the FDR variety. The problem with the individual-state dichotomy is that society isn’t merely composed of individuals and the state.

If you think that law is something that a judge can make just by deciding a case that comes before him; or if you think that law is something that a legislature can make just by passing a bill and sending it to a governor or a president for his approval; or if you think that a governor or a president can make law just by means of an executive order, then I would respectfully suggest that you are mistaken about the true source and nature of law.