Full-fledged communism failed first. The genuine, undiluted article sank the Soviet Union in 1991 and vindicated generations of capitalist, freedom-loving people who had hated communism from the start.

Still, it’s important to remember, capitalists were on the ropes for a long time.

As dean of the Harvard Law School, President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, attempted to block military recruiters from the campus, but only relented when the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could withhold millions of dollars of funding to the university. This position didn’t sit well with then-Dean Kagan, who said at the time: “The government shouldn’t use the power of the purse strings to force educational institutions to renounce their most foundational principles.”

It’s a rarity in American politics that a president would encourage citizens to disengage from technological innovations that can further their involvement in the policy process. But that’s just what our president seems to have done.

Congress is a small independent school district in Arizona tired of receiving and complying with open record requests. So, the district with a lousy track record of timely releasing information, is suing concerned taxpayer Jean Warren.

The health of our Republic depends upon having government which is so limited in its powers that citizens live within an environment of freedom of action.

My friend Chuck Ellis well summarizes where we are in the health care ‘reform’ debacle: "Lemme get this straight….we’re about to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president who also is exempt from it and hasn’t read it and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke. What could possibly go wrong?"