Bravo, Senator Rand Paul!

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), returned $600,000 to the US Treasury today. Impounding has fallen out of disuse since President Richard Nixon attempted to implement the New Federalism, yet failed to do so because of the encroaching Watergate scandal. Thomas Jefferson...

Sermon on the Mount

The "Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) has received diverse interpretations. Some people have viewed the teachings of Jesus Christ as the proper moral guide for living. Others have claimed that the Sermon on the Mount proves that Jesus came as a great teacher,...

Governor Chafee — Lower My Taxes!

The colonial founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, fled the Big Government of Micromanaging Puritanism in colonial Massachusetts to establish a new government based on religious toleration and mutual respect for all of God’s creatures. The intolerant Puritans were...

Edward Brooke, African-Americans, and the GOP

Edward Brooke (R-MA) Edward Brooke was the first popularly elected African-American US Senator, and a Republican. Brooke defeated an incumbent Democrat for the Senate seat in 1966, a watershed year for Republicans. He represented Massachusetts from 1966 to 1978, even...