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As Pericles said, “Just because you don’t take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” Nothing is more illustrative of the noble Athenian’s point than the American Census. The count is made, and you become part of a political calculus. In a parliamentary democracy, that is expected. Since 1790, every ten years the United States has conducted a headcount. Unlike much of what the government does these days, there is actually a constitutional basis for the Census. Article I Section 2 empowers Congress to conduct a census in “such a manner as th...

Morgan Griffith On April 22, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on H.R. 51, a bill to admit the District of Columbia as the 51st state of the Union. D.C.’s lack of voting representation in Congress is a matter of fairness that deserves to be addressed, but H.R. 51’s proponents are advocating the wrong solution. The Founding Fathers wanted the nation’s capital to stand alone, not be the first among equals as a state along with the others. As James Madison wrote in The Federalist No. 43, “a dependence of the members of the general government on the State com...

Forcing Critical Race Theory on children is psychologically damaging. I come from a time when schools existed to teach the ABCs, basic math and the amazing story of the American founding. While it’s true that Horace Mann, the man who first promoted universal public education, was a central planner, government schools usually turned out educated students whose values comported with those of their parents. But these days, driven by fads and pseudoscience, many schools seem to exist to frighten children by forcing them into believing some craze-du-jour that is often alien to their parents. Of...

Suspending the filibuster to pass H.R. 1 is just what the Senate should do, voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday:

Western North Dakota county passes Second Amendment Preservation Act Stark County commissioners on Tuesday, March 2, unanimously approved in a 5-0 vote an act that will immediately go into effect in Stark County to strengthen the county's preservation of the Second Amendment in the wake of President Joe Biden and Democratic legislators' recent legislation and long-standing policies on gun control. Written By: James Miller | × Introduced by Andrew "Kord" Kordonowy, a United States Army veteran and prominent business owner in Dickinson, the Stark County act would re...