A Choice Not an Echo, Fifty Years Later
In her 2014 update to A Choice Not and Echo, Phyllis Schlafly demonstrates that not much has changed, as Republican candidates for president have remained nothing but an "echo"...
About: Steve Byas
Posts by Steve Byas
Ferguson, New York Cases Used to Push Nationalized Police
The proposition that turning all law enforcement over to a national government would eliminate (or even drastically reduce) police misbehavior is not borne out by either history or logic....
Jeb Bush Will Not Run as a Conservative
The Bush family has long ties with the power elites of the United States, going back to Jeb Bush's great-grandfather, Samuel Prescott Bush. ...
Obama Ignores Election Returns in Bid for Greater Presidential Power
After the beating the Democrat Party took in the 2014 elections, instead of pulling back from his liberal agenda, President Obama has basically dismissed the election returns and vowed...
Black Friday Protests Planned at Walmart
The day after Thanksgiving a group of Walmart workers plans to strike to protest certain company policies. Specifically, the group wants Walmart to phase out its minimum-wage jobs. ...
Essential Immigration Reform
A review of the historical record finds no constitutional basis exists for granting citizenship to the children of foreigners on U.S. soil. ...
Jeb Bush, Taxes, and the 2016 Presidential Race
Jeb Bush will be the candidate of the establishment not simply because he is yet another Bush, but because of his political views. ...
Evidence Lends Credence to Police Officer’s Version of Events in Ferguson Case
Recent reports in the New York Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch lend credence to police officer Darren Wilson's version of events in the fatal August 9 shooting of...
Obama Claims 14th Amendment Requires Nationalized Same-sex Marriage
"Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states," Obama told the New Yorker. It is beyond belief that the Congress which passed the...
Ebola: U.S. Government Ignoring Lessons From History
It appears that government officials are following an agenda other than what is in the best interests of the health of Americans. ...
AMAC Endorses Constitutional Convention
The Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC), an organization with more than one million members, has grown as a conservative alternative to the liberal American Association of Retired Persons...
Beheading Comes to the Homeland
Angry over his termination from Vaughn Foods in Moore, Oklahoma, 30-year-old Alton Nolen, aka Jah’Keem Yisrael, used a knife to decapitate employee Colleen Hufford on Thursday, September 25. ...
The Price of Price-gouging Laws
When do government price controls, which are meant to help consumers, hurt consumers? Whenever they are in effect. ...
Movie Review: Copperhead
What happened when a Northerner vociferously protested against war with the South? This movie by the director of Gods and Generals and Gettysburg answers that question. ...
Interview With Ron Maxwell on His New Civil War Movie “Copperhead”
Copperhead, scheduled for release June 28, is based on the 19th-century novel of the same name by Harold Frederic. Dairy farmer Abner Beech opposes the war waged by President...