Author Archive | Laurence M. Vance

As night follows day, so cries for more gun control follow another deadly shooting. But once again, it is not just Democrats, liberals, progressives howling[…]

Ivan Eland, Eleven Presidents: Promises vs. Results in Achieving Limited Government (Oakland: Independent Institute, 2017), xi + 370 pgs, hardcover. Republicans claim to be the[…]

A conservative writer is upset that high school and college kids never read the Constitution, can’t name the first president, don’t know what the stripes[…]

The Constitution (article VI, clause 3) requires that senators and representatives “be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution.” Do they? U.S. law[…]

Republicans like to play the pro-life card. It makes their base think they are worthy of votes and financial support. But there is no greater[…]

If President Obama had talked about how he was “really smart,” “very intelligent,” and “a very stable genius,” Republicans and conservatives would have attacked him[…]

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments last month in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Jack Phillips, the owner of[…]

No, President Trump is not ending Medicaid as we know it. Not even close. Like the Republicans in Congress, he is a welfare statist who[…]

Seventy per cent of the population of Saudi Arabia is under thirty years old. This means that the majority of Saudi young people have never[…]

Although there are some good things in the Republicans’ tax-reform bill that President trump signed into law before Christmas (H.R.1, PL 115-97), the continuance and[…]

Thanks to a note from a preacher friend, I think I’ve discovered a new type of Christian: the So what? Christian. I have written many[…]

I have read the Republican Party platform so you don’t have to. While doing some research on the Republican Party for yet another article on[…]