We are a nation of immigrants. That is beyond question. However, in recent months the question of how newcomers become part of our society has loomed large in our public debates, especially during the 2011 Utah State legislative session. An integral part of the debate is an effort to identify the sphere of government that has proper authority over Immigration. Does it belong to the several States or to the Federal government?
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I wish you the best this holiday. It is sad to think that what was considered proper and just, is now thought to be a violation of someone’s right to freedom from religion, a concept that has no support in either the Constitution itself, or in any of the commentaries from the Convention or elsewhere. …
Edmund Burke once wrote, “Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without. It is ordained in …
The formation of a new conservative focus group, the Patrick Henry Caucus, causes me to repost this article, originally written in July of 2004. I think it is important to repost now because of the increasing interest in, and focus on, States’ Rights. For example, Montana has recently passed legislation that would bar the Federal …
The pen name The Old Whig has a couple of sources. The first is from a reference by Friedrich Hayek regarding Edmund Burke. The second is from The Anti-Federalist papers. An anonymous author used the name An Old Whig to sign all his correspondence to the editor of the local newspaper. The Old Whig was …