My Latest Published Article on Eric Cantor

Check out my reporting on Eric Cantor's position on raising the statutory debt limit!

House Majority Leader Cantor Won’t Say How Much Additional Federal Debt He’d Support | CNSnews.com By Me.

Then check out CNSNews.com's editor-in-chief's article on Eric Cantor's rhetoric back in 2010.

Cantor in 2010: ‘Beyond Comprehension’ To Lift Debt Limit to $14.294 Trillion | CNSnews.com By Terence P. Jeffrey

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Video: Goodlatte to Finish the Work of Thomas Jefferson

Washington (GoinsReport.com) – Americans for Prosperity held a rally last Wednesday in front of the capitol building with one message in mind: “Cut spending now.”

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), one speaker among many, said he wanted to finish the work of the third U.S. President and to have a bill that would cap the amount of money that the U.S. government can borrow.

“We need the American people to ask for what Thomas Jefferson ask for just eight years after our constitution was written. He said he wished for a single amendment. He said ‘by that I mean a single article limiting the ability of the federal government’s ability to borrow money.’”

He continued: “We need to finish the work that Thomas Jefferson – a great Virginian and a great American – started.”

Currently, 49 out of 50 states have balanced budget amendment. Vermont is the only state not to have one.

Goodlatte has introduced balanced budget amendments multiple times already; at least once in 2009, and twice in 2011.

The second new bill requires a super-majority to raise taxes, and cut back spending as a percentage of GDP to 20 percent.

However, according to Goodlatte, 47 Republican senators say they want to limit government spending as a percentage of GDP to 18 percent.

Like Majority Leader John Boehner, Goodlatte said that he doesn’t want to balance the budget by raising taxes.

According the Office of Management and Budget, federal outlays as a percentage of GDP in 2010 was 23.8 percent, down from a 2009 when spending was 25 percent of GDP.

The last time federal outlays were close to 18 percent of GDP was in 2001, at 18.2 percent.

In the Letter to John Taylor of Caroline (1798), Thomas Jefferson wrote:

I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender. I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year would, in case of war, be hard on us. But not so hard as ten wars instead of one. For wars could be reduced in that proportion; besides that the State governments would be free to lend their credit in borrowing quotas.

Michael Tanner on the What the Next President Should Be Like

In a recent opinion piece on the National Review (re-published by the Cato Institute), Michael Tanner commented on what the next president should be like. I completely agree:

Ryan's approach is a good start. But for the long term, it will require a 2012 presidential candidate capable of explaining the facts to an uninformed public and courageous enough to make the necessary cuts — even if the public thinks they hurt.

This is Going to Hurt

The Goins Report on the Greek Letter Organization from Hell

C. Goins on the government:

“Government is the Greek letter organization from hell. It's the never-ending order in which you have no say concerning your membership and you always have to pay dues—no matter how active or inactive you are. If you are born, you're in, and you can't get out. If you try, they'll send some blockhead with a badge and a gun to collect your dues. And upon resistance, they’ll throw you away as if you were never in their prestigious organization at all.”

Taken from his forthcoming book (Title TBA)

Scheuer: Obama an Arrogant, Racist Interventionist

I'm just the messenger.

Obama and other recent U.S. presidents are out to teach foreigners to elect good men, as well as to help elevate our uncivilized little brown brothers to the heights of our near-perfect secular (semi-pagan) democracy. Whether those little brown brothers want to give up their faith, tribalism, patriarchal societies, family structures, societal mores, or ethnic distinctiveness is irrelevant. Mr. Obama and his predecessors know what is best for all of them, and U.S. policy will be to impose it on them at all costs, even if we have to intervene and kill many of our little brothers — and perhaps uselessly waste the lives of many of our soldiers and Marines — to bring about this sublime culmination.

Michael Scheuer, It is sad, but President Obama is an Arrogant, Racist Interventionist

Video: Look at the Baby on the Left

By using the term "left" in the title, I almost made a double entendre. Anyway, watch the video to see some Clintonite nearly cry when Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute clumps Bush and Obama together.

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Video: The Biblical Prophet: He Told It Like It Is

Does the Bible lean toward anarchism?

Samuel Konkin on the State

From the New Libertarian Manifesto:

"Such an institution of coercion – centralizing immorality, directing theft and murder, and coordinating oppression on a scale inconceivable by random criminality – exists. It is the Mob of mobs, Gang of gangs, Conspiracy of conspiracies. It has murdered more people in a few recent years than all the deaths in history before that time; it has stolen in a few recent years more than all the wealth produced in history to that time; it has deluded – for its survival – more minds in a few recent years than all the irrationality of history to that time; Our Enemy, The State."

Samuel Konkin, Sam Konkin and Libertarian Theory

Video: "In The Muslim World This Is 'Americans Killing Muslims' AGAIN!"