Waves of assault on the constitutional constraints meant to limit federal power, combined with the relentless expansion of the federal bureaucracy, has led to a steady erosion of the constitutional constraints on federal power-raising the very dangers to self-government and individual liberty that the Framers feared might lead to tyranny.
The Victims of 9/11 Deserved Better
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the massacres of September 11th, 2001, brings with it a flood of memory, and regrets. The simple reality, visible at the time and brought into ever-sharper focus across each successive year, is that the enemy in Al Qaeda achieved its major strategic objects in its attack upon the United States of...