Slow Strangulation: Welcome to the Regulatory State
On December 3rd, it was my very great pleasure to speak to the Knox County Tea Party. My topic was the “The Regulatory State: How We Got Here and How […]
Read More →The Kid With the Golf Cart: Matt Rand vs. City of Portland
This morning Matt Rand faced off against City Hall – at City Hall. At a well-attended presser hosted by MHPC’s Center for Constitutional Government, Matt asked the City to reconsider […]
Read More →The New Class Meets the Ruling Class
The chief visible product of leftism is a feigned egalitarianism. While Marx and his disciples claimed to create a classless society, the reality was of course quite different. There are […]
Read More →Texas vs. EPA
Pat Caddell recently opined that the American peoples’ mood – after being repeatedly shoved by the radical left – is ‘pre-revolutionary’. Ordinarily, I’d be inclined to dismiss Pat’s comment as […]
Read More →MHPC Files Suit Challenging Maine’s Clean Election Law
On August 5, MHPC, together with the James Madison Center for Free Speech, filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Portland, challenging Maine’s Clean Election Law and in particular […]
Read More →MHPC Opponent: Yes, They’re Effective
The Maine Municipal Association recently delivered 2,000 pages of email messages in response to MHPC’s Freedom of Access Act request. The email consisted of Geoff Herman’s and Chris Lockwood’s TABOR-related […]
Read More →Government as Big Brother? More Like Peeping Tom – Part II
On May 3d, Sam Adolphsen highlighted a truly creepy TV ad produced by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue – a Big Brother, ‘we know where you live’ extravaganza that would […]
Read More →James Madison on the Framers
Our principal source for the inner workings of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 is James Madison’s Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787. The Debates are the actual minutes of […]
Read More →Can the Federal Government Tell Us What to Eat?
While I agree with many commentators that the Elena Kagan hearings have begun to resemble a rather bad Gilbert & Sullivan production, there was one very revealing moment during yesterday’s […]
Read More →MHPC Sues Maine Municipal Association Over Improper Electioneering Expenditures – Documents Available
Today the Center for Constitutional Government filed suit on behalf of four plaintiffs against the Maine Municipal Association over its improper interference with five citizens’ initiatives during the period 2003-2009. […]
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