Michael D. Brown

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The First Amendment to the United States Constitution reads as follows: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of [...]

In typical fashion, the Obama Administration tells Ford it doesn’t like this ad. So, Ford, capitulates and pulls the ad, including versions on YouTube. So, here it is: Hmmm, wonder why they objected to the commercial?

In his Commentary 21 William Blackstone famously observed, “in order to have a crime, there must be a vicious will.” This is known as mens rea and has long been an integral part of criminal law. Blackstone pointed out that restraint of individual rights should be easily recognized by all those who are being asked [...]

The headlines in today’s news are not encouraging: Treasury Secretary Geithner says jobs created by the stimulus program cost an average $200,000 but were worth it, a super-rich doofus from Google shouts out to Obama at town hall meeting to “raise my taxes,” and Gallup reports that a new survey says half of Americans think [...]

Lefty Michael Moore continues to squeal about the execution of Troy Davis last week after two decades of appeals through the Georgia state judicial system and the federal judicial system. The left will continue to tout Davis as the poster boy for abolishing the death penalty. Having defended a couple of slugs in murder cases [...]

Barack Obama has famously declared that his jobs program is not class warfare, but simple math. Of course it is class warfare, of the worst kind, being argued on the backs of millions of unemployed individuals who need jobs, not class warfare: But this President has never let facts get in his way of a [...]

A quintessential aspect of American life has been the intellectually debating of issues of all kinds. The importance of debate and the free flow of ideas was recognized by the Founding Fathers when they incorporated the right of free speech as the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Debate and competition between ideas leads [...]

During an interview with British journalist Llew Gardiner Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said: and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They [socialists] always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite a characteristic of them. So here’s proof.

David Rittgers of the CATO Institute has published an excellent baseline article advocating for the abolishment of the Department of Homeland Security. You can download the complete report here. Unfortunately, while his article is logical and persuasive, the undoing of a bureaucracy in Washington is virtually impossible, especially given the homeland-security-industrial-complex that has built up [...]