Free Republic

TRUTHThere are momentous events taking place right now. A sense of danger permeates the air one breathes. A seemingly out-of-control government presents an existential threat friend and foe alike. Elections mean nothing and they don’t care what the majority wants, because the vast, vast majority want secure and legitimate elections. They want laws to be enforced, especially the laws that prevent foreign enemies and convicted felons from flooding the nation, taking the advantages of being a citizen without being one and more often, getting benefits that are not available to the actual, legal citizens. They want their children to be...

Regular readers of FEE know that one of our beats has been the early history of the administrative State as built by Progressives at the turn of the 20th century. It was a different kind of State than the one that came before, a modern state knew no limits to its power to intervene in the relationships between individuals. It set in motion a century of government growth and regulatory control over every aspect of life, and all these controls have lasted to this day. Why did they do it? The textbooks say that they loved the common man. They...