Gaius Marius reorganized the Roman military in a way that made the soldiers more dependent on their generals than on their civilian leadership. Then, the Roman Republic fell into tyranny. OK, so there’s more to the story, ...

Scalia’s death Justice Scalia was a solid advocate of originalism in constitutional interpretation (see my post here for what that means). This often put him on the conservative side of things, and in favor with the GOP. ...

This post builds off of my previous posts about the concept of a “Conflict of Visions” written by Thomas Sowell. See the brief summary here or the in-depth explanation here. It also builds on my explanation of the ...

I saw the following message about federal vs household budgets floating around Facebook like crazy during the election when the federal budget was popular to talk about.  With the fiscal cliff stuff going on, I’ve ...