The Tea Party was born in February of 2009, shortly following the inauguration of Barack Obama. It was an opposition movement to the higher taxes and the proposed individual mandate to fund his promised ObamaCare proposal. It was a political wave that boosted Liberty Republicans into office in the 2010 midterms, such as Rand Paul,…
Of all the arguments against a strong autocratic ruling system Thomas Paine makes in his seminal pamphlet “Common Sense”, none have resonated more with me than his appeal to the Old Testament. In the work, Paine references both Gideon, one of the judges of Israel, and Samuel, a prophet for the Israelites. Gideon was a…
Chris White Sen. Josh Hawley is escalating his war on China as the Missouri Republican aims to protect Americans’ communication from being exported to the communist country. Hawley is seeking to block companies from China and Russia from transferring Americans’ data back to their countries. The National Security and Personal Data Act is designed to prevent countries…
“Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong” It all began with seven simple words tweeted by the Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey a week ago. Since then, China (which bans Twitter internally) has tried to leverage access to it’s market to expand censorship outside its borders. Last year alone, 600 million people watched NBA games…
Does the Second Amendment protect an individual right to gun ownership, or is it a collective right that can and should be heavily regulated by the state? In light of recent debates about mass shootings and gun control, that argument—which has been at the heart of many conversations about gun control—was fleshed out by Sens….
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is asking the Department of Homeland Security to accept donations from charities for migrants at the Southern border. “I … urge you to establish and publicize a process for accepting donations from charitable organizations, faith-based organizations, and [nongovernmental organizations] to aid individuals in [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] custody,” the Republican…
What is the chief cornerstone of all human liberty on which all other human freedoms depend? Thomas Jefferson said it best in the oft quoted line of America’s Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,…
Recently, Senator Ted Cruz offered to team up with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to liberalize current regulations surrounding over-the-counter (OTC) birth control. This policy stance is not totally out of the blue. In 2014, Republican Senator Cory Gardner came out in support of OTC birth control, and many states have already moved to increase the accessibility of…
Chris White Republish Reprint Conservatives are brainstorming ways to ding big tech companies amid reports that Facebook is teeing off on right-wing pundits. There’s an internal fight brewing among conservatives about how to bring Facebook and Twitter to heel following reports that big tech companies are banning online activists. Some of the ideas Sen. Ted…
Molly Prince America has been bouncing between interventionist and isolationist policies when embracing international relations, but foreign policy is not a binary option. Sen. Ted Cruz advocated for peace through strength, which he contended made him a “non-interventionist hawk.” America must acknowledge how the world objectively is and handle situations with pragmatic judgment rather than…