Yes, we are a nation of laws. But we have *too many* laws, and most of them were never passed by Congress but were instead enacted as federal “rules” by unelected bureaucrats. Dismantling that bureaucracy shouldn’t be a partisan issue. In fact, it should be *the most unifying issue* in America, as the following case study reveals:
In 1938, FDR signed a bill creating the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), an “independent agency” that crushed the life out of the airline industry. If you wanted to start up a new airline, you needed a permission slip from the CAB. The board also decided how much you could charge for a ticket & what routes you were allowed to fly. In 40 years of the CAB’s existence, not a single new airline opened for business. It was a textbook example of regulatory capture crowding out the competition.
Republican President Gerald Ford got the ball rolling in 1975 when he proposed reducing the CAB's power. Other key players in the anti-CAB movement were Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy, Senate staffer (and future SCOTUS justice) Stephen Breyer, and Jimmy Carter (who replaced Ford in the White House).
In 1978, the bill abolishing the CAB passed the House 363-8 and passed the Senate 82-4.
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch explains what happened next in his new book, “Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law”:
“[B]etween 1978 and 2011, base ticket prices dropped by almost 40 percent in inflation-adjusted terms. As a result, millions of people flocked to the skies for the first time. An activity that had once belonged largely to elites became one that many Americans take more or less for granted.”
Ronald Reagan said that federal agencies were “the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.” But that’s only true if we let it be true. Prosperity is unifying, and the path back to it requires shutting down the regulatory state.
In my rural county in NW Georgia, over 2,000 votes for President Trump were discovered after our governor ordered a hand recount. That’s an incredible number, enough to potentially change the outcome of the election.
Thank you to the National Republican Lawyers Association for stepping up to ensure that President Trump and candidates across the country get a fair election this November.
BREAKING: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele just gave a BRILLIANT speech at the UN, slamming Western nations that claim to stand for freedom while censoring, jailing, and shooting their political opponents
HINT: He's referring to Democrats in the United States
"We do not imprison our opposition. We do not censor opinions. We do not censor opinions from those who think differently."
In El Salvador, we prioritize the safety of our honest citizens over the comfort of criminals."
Just so we understand what we’re up against. Just so we all understand who the left is continually boosting at the expense of our #1 ally abroad. One day this savagery will come here because not only are we allowing it but we are encouraging it &funding it
We are in dangerous times.
America is funding/fueling a war against nuclear armed Russia in Ukraine and Islamic terrorists Hamas have declared war on Israel on the 50 yr anniversary of Yom Kippur War.
I’m praying for peace. 🙏
Our world was at peace under President Trump.
His clear-eyed realism, raw projection of national strength, and his rejection of ideology in favor of pragmatism and national interest, brought us an unprecedented era of global harmony.
Whereas the DC set prattles on endlessly about the rules-based international order — the bloodless and esoteric obsession of the grad school credential class divorced from the iron laws of history — Trump understood the forces that shape world events: relationships, resources, rivalries, and the rational pursuit of self-interest and self-determination.
He understood you cannot impose an ideology over the essential nature of nation and man.
Instead of wasting away America’s diplomatic and financial assets trying to forcibly impose our values across the planet — which consistently yields the opposite effect — he focused on the formation of mutually-beneficial partnerships to foster global stability.
And he used our economic leverage as deterrence rather than fritter it away on nation building: knowing that a country which seeks to protect its own economic interests will always command more respect and find more common ground in its dealings with foreign powers.
Biden trashed it all. Set it all ablaze. His Administration’s toxic blend of idiocy, imbecility, incompetence and ideological extremism has turned calm into calamity. Peace into pandemonium. Harmony into hell.
The message sent and received by our our humiliation in Afghanistan, our cash bonfire in Ukraine, our internal repression as we preach “democracy,” our cultural self-flagellation, self-abasement and the self-annihilation of our own border, is that we are not a country to be taken seriously only taken advantage of. Over and over.
Under Biden, we are not a sovereign nation but a checkbook. A printing press. A mark. A punching bag. A sunken power. A spent power. A hollowed power. A rapidly declining power.
And as the torch of American liberty goes dark the world is lit instead by the fire of destruction.
Donde están metidos los que criticaron al gobierno anterior por su política dura en la frontera? Por qué no critican ahora la crisis humanitaria y la invasión que hay en la misma frontera? Son negociantes de la política y populistas baratos.