Is the U.S. Constitution outdated? Is Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg right to suggest other nations not model their constitutions after ours?
An article in the New York Times on Monday wrote of the U.S. Constitution dismissively, saying plainly, “Our Constitution is terse and old, and it guarantees relatively few rights.”
Is it important for a [...]

With all the (well deserved) buzz surrounding Meryl Streep’s latest award-winning role in The Iron Lady, we thought it might be useful to provide a short profile on Great Britain’s longest-serving prime minister in the 20th century.
Margaret Thatcher served as Britain’s head of government for 11 and a half years because she had both the aspirational vision [...]

Last week, Charles M. Blow of the New York Times penned a piece in which he cited new data from the Pew Research Center indicating that less than a majority of Americans believe in the notion of American exceptionalism.
That term requires some definition, particularly on a website whose name includes it.
I define American exceptionalism as Whole Foods cofounder and CEO [...]

Society is breaking down all across the western world. Unfortunately, it is bands of youths doing the breaking, literally. So, what should be done? How do we regain a level of respect for others, a respect of the rule of law and private property in our increasingly out of control youth? And what and or [...]

Just days ago, NASA celebrated the 35th Anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, an event that was truly the culmination of over a decade of strife, as NASA engineers and astronauts heeded then President John F. Kennedy’s call to look forward into space. In 1968, as Neil Armstrong and his team hovered over the moon, [...]

The Casey Anthony trial has had a dramatic effect on the American psyche. For those unfamiliar, a Florida mother who’s daughter went missing and whose remains were later found just steps from her grandparents home was acquitted of her daughters murder after a month-long jury trial that tested the boundaries of patience. When the dust [...]

After championing a bill to heighten federal regulations and empower the Food and Drug Administration, some of the food industry’s giants found themselves trying to kill the measure.
The lobby for large food retailers and processors spent two years championing the big-government Food Safety Enhancement Act, while small farmers and processors said the bill’s “one-size-fits-all” regulatory [...]

It is no secret that the United States faces tough times ahead.
What do we know? The government actuary has presented unassailable data proving the entitlement explosion will begin hitting hard somewhere around 2016, the presidential term following the next one. The enormous $16 trillion Social Security long-term deficit at 1.2 percent of GDP is peanuts [...]

In the year 1000, the average infant could expect to live about 24 years. A third died in the first year of life. Hunger and epidemic disease ravaged the survivors. By 1820, life expectation had risen to 36 years in the west, with only marginal improvement elsewhere. After 1820, world development became much more dynamic. [...]

The federal government and the states have clashed several times in recent months over their respective powers. Louisiana was prohibited from acting quickly to protect its waters from the BP oil spill because approval was required from the Corps of Engineers to erect sand berms in front of the state’s shoreline. Arizona is [...]

The economists of this administration hold Keynesian beliefs, but their belief is in one-way Keynesianism. The stimulus package has not produced its expected multiplier effects for several reasons, but one of them surely is its superimposition not on a previously balanced budget but upon enormous structural deficits. No credible proposal has been forthcoming for the [...]

Former Republican Senate majority leader Trent Lott told The Washington Post recently he was concerned that election of a “robust bloc of rabble-rousers” from the Tea Party movement – GOP candidates who had raised probing questions regarding the survivability of a government so deeply in debt – would result in “further Senate dysfunction.”
“We don’t need [...]

One of the major themes for the Center for American Vision and Values is investigating human nature as it relates to government and social life in the U.S. and particularly whether the progressive image of man so dominant today is a natural product of historical development or is simply naive?
The man most responsible for making [...]

I am very happy to say that the distinctions between left and right, and their historical and philosophical foundations, are being discussed more than at any other time in the years that I have been politically and culturally aware. That would be, I hate to say, almost 30 years.
I think we have President Barack Obama [...]

Opponents of limited government are an energetic, persistent bunch, and one of their most effective strategies to aggrandize state power is what I call “gapism.” Here’s how it works.
Begin by uncovering some “gap” between haves and have-nots. Contemporary examples include differences in health care quality, life expectancy, educational attainment, home ownership, obesity, internet access, credit [...]