Youngsters who are just entering the work place have never known the difference.  Baby-boomers and beyond, know that government rules and regulations have increased exponentially, and continue to squeeze freedom from almost every endeavor.  Few people recognized the incremental constrictions, nor the institutions and processes that apply the pressure.  These institutions have a common denominator: they are private organizations funded by the federal government.

Many Americans are wondering when will the US Justice Department get around to prosecuting US Congressman William J. Jefferson for the alleged corruption he’s perpetrated while in office.

The sky is falling!  Our economy is collapsing!  It’s fiscal Armageddon!

On March 12, the American Baking Association, representing 85% of the total baking industry, will lead a “Band of Bakers March on Washington.” Representatives from more than 50% of the nation’s largest baking companies will call on Congress to correct the policies it has created over the years that have led to soaring food and oil prices.

"It is not yet true, as it has long been of the United States, that if China were to sneeze, the world would catch pneumonia,” comments Times Literary Supplement reviewer Rosemary Righter. But “China’s potential capacity to upset the international applecart already exercises financial analysts and other crystal-ball gazers.”

The president of the world’s premier homeschool advocacy organization is renewing a call for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to protect the rights of parents.

The Colorado sheriff who dispatched a SWAT team to break into a family’s home, hold them at gunpoint and take custody of an 11-year-old boy for a medical exam sought by Social Services is defending the actions, saying the boy’s father told officers to “bring an army” if they returned. 

I note Congress is beginning an investigation into television preachers who promise wealth to those who give to their “ministries.”

A little scheme patterned after the Progressive/Socialist methodology. An incremental move away from taxation of income.

I’ve often said America faces danger from creeping fascism.

A homeschooling mom who fled her Carbon County, Utah, home because of a judge’s threat to take away her children if they were not enrolled in the local public school district is preparing to answer the counts that accuse her of failing to submit last year’s homeschool paperwork.

A Utah woman who was ordered by a juvenile court judge to enroll her children in public school or lose custody of them has abandoned her home, furniture and other possessions to escape the order.

A homeschooling mom in Utah has been ordered by a judge to enroll her children in a public school district within 24 hours, and have them in class tomorrow, all because of a paperwork glitch that very well could be the fault of the district.

The housing slump impacted revenue in 24 states this year and 18 say they are “concerned” about their revenue outlook, triple the number from last year, a new report released Dec. 10 shows.

Low tax states demonstrate path to economic success - The choice is stark, according to a new report by economists Art Laffer and Steve Moore published by the American Legislative Exchange Council. State policymakers can choose growth and prosperity or they can choose economic hari-kari.