By Nathan Tucker Though the media constantly refers to the looming tax hikes and spending cuts at the end of the year as the fiscal cliff, the reality is that we’re already over the edge and are free-falling towards the bottom. We’re just experiencing the pillaging before the eventual thud at the end. The single [...]
By Nathan Tucker In what can charitably be described as an act of political expediency, Iowa’s most conservative member of Congress embraced an activist decision by the U.S. Supreme Court as “constitutional” and encouraged those who thought otherwise to do something “constructive.” At their fifth and final debate, Democrat Christie Vilsack challenged Congressman Steve King [...]
By Nathan Tucker President Obama gives businesses federal loan guarantees before they declare bankruptcy, while Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney wants to give them the loans after they’ve already failed and declared bankruptcy. So much for free markets, or the Constitution. In Monday night’s final presidential debate, President Obama accused Romney of saying that he [...]
By Nathan Tucker In the debate over the upcoming judicial retention vote in Iowa, defenders of Justice Wiggins argue that his judicial career shouldn’t be decided solely by his vote legalizing gay marriage in Varnum. Instead, they want “a broader legal case against Wiggins…that [digs] into other aspects of his 10 years on the court [...]
By Nathan Tucker In his closing remarks during last week’s presidential debate, President Obama candidly described America as a place where “everybody’s getting a fair shot. And everybody’s getting a fair share.” Tragically, this view of America is shared by far too many voters in today’s modern welfare state. Obama’s penchant for wealth redistribution is [...]
By Nathan Tucker In its 2009 Varnum decision, a unanimous Iowa Supreme Court discovered a right to gay marriage in the state’s constitution. Disgusted, two years ago Iowa voters took the unprecedented step of removing the three justices who stood for retention that year. This year, as Justice Wiggins, a fourth member of the Varnum [...]
By Nathan Tucker “The contest, for all ages, has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power,” warned Daniel Webster. “Through all this history of the contest for liberty, executive power has been regarded as a lion which must be caged,” he continued, “it has been dreaded, uniformly, always dreaded, as the great [...]