By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  February 17th at 06:42 AM  | 

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution I constantly write about the evils of government unbound. Most of that time those comments are directed at a federal government that has ventured far beyond the constraints imposed by | Read More »

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  February 7th at 07:27 AM  | 

In the absence of government, anarchy sets in. In the presence of an all powerful government you have totalitarianism. In both cases a man’s attention must be focused on attending to the immediacies necessary for survival. In the former, dangers can be found around any corner as everyone fends for themselves. In the latter, dangers can be found around every corner as the government controls | Read More »

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  January 24th at 12:27 PM  | 

Reading President Obama’s piece in the Wall Street Journal last week made me think of something Tom Dye, one of my Political Science professors at Florida Sate used to say when discussing the Soviet approach to arms negotiations: “If it’s someone’s goal to kill you, you should not be surprised to discover that they are more than willing to lie about it in the first | Read More »

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  January 17th at 07:31 AM  | 

Conservatives and libertarians are constantly railing against government intervention in the lives of citizens. As such, they are often accused by the left of hating all forms of government and seeking to deregulate everything to the point where corporations can take over the country and rob and enslave the citizenry. Nothing could be farther than the truth. Conservatives understand a successful nation requires a functioning | Read More »

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  January 10th at 01:57 PM  | 

In some respects liberals and progressives have it easy. All they have to do is look around and they can find problems for government to solve. Kids are too fat? Let’s get the government to decide how restaurants market their offering. Somebody walked away with a bad haircut? Impose government testing and licensing for barbers. Crime getting out of control? Let’s ban all guns. Someone | Read More »

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  January 3rd at 03:39 PM  | 

Last week the fewest jobless claims in 2 ½ years were reported. President Obama and the Democrats will likely begin crowing that at long last their policies are beginning to kick in and turn the jobs market around. I’m not so sure… Let’s see how things look in six months as even a blind squirrel trips over a nut every now and then.  At the end | Read More »

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  December 20th at 01:28 PM  | 

My wife is from France. In the four years we were on opposite sides of the ocean before we got married I had the good fortune to be able to visit the country a number of times. Much of that time I was working at Outback Steakhouse and always envisioned opening a unit in Paris. (I know, for most people that’s epicurean heresy, but consider | Read More »

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  December 13th at 02:30 PM  | 

Voter turnout in the United States is an embarrassment. For a republic that is supposed to be the vanguard of democracy around the world, when 55% of eligible voters casting ballots is considered good, that’s rather dismaying. Of course, seeing what happens when the uninformed vote, we may want to consider putting some hurdles in place. Perhaps we should force voters to pass the same | Read More »

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  December 6th at 03:23 PM  | 

From the diaries, by Erick I want to make my priorities clear from the start. One: middle class families need permanent tax relief. And two: I believe we can’t afford to borrow and spend another $700 billion on permanent tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. That is a line from President Obama’s weekly radio address last week. He’s referring to the coming tax hikes as | Read More »

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  November 29th at 05:37 PM  | 

Freedom is one of those words that we use a lot in this country. It’s one of those words that many use assuming that we’re all talking about the same thing, when in reality we are probably not. Many people will argue that one of the great strengths of America is the Freedom of her people. That is about as far as the consensus goes | Read More »