By Bill Wilson — Things are starting to get serious.  First Peter Orszag, Obama’s former Director for Management and Budget called for “a bit less democracy,” advocating issues relating to the economy be turned over to a panel of experts.  No pesky elected representatives of the people need apply.  Then, North Carolina Democrat Governor Beverly Perdue suggested we skip elections — just […]

As originally published at The Washington Examiner . By Bill Wilson — Even before the lingering recession compelled companies to shed additional anti-competitive encumbrances, labor unions were already on the decline in America. Not even an unprecedented bonanza of government bailouts, multibillion-dollar loans and other taxpayer-funded subsidies has been able to prop up Big […]

By Bill Wilson — It might not be an overstatement to say that the fate of representative government hangs in the balance as Slovakia has rejected the €440 billion European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF). It fell 21 votes short of a majority. Was it the day the mouse roared? When a free people stood up — as did the people of Iceland recently — […]

By Bill Wilson — If one has been following the news lately, it probably has been impossible to miss a nascent radical protest movement in New York City dubbed “Occupy Wall Street.”  On its face, it appears to be a typical leftist attempt to spark populist outrage […]

By Bill Wilson — “The Board is not a court nor is it equal to this court in matters of statutory interpretation.” That was how the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals put it in a 1983 case that involved the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issuing its […]

By Bill Wilson — Most Americans think that tyranny comes with the stomping of boots, secret police and a bloody takeover by brutish thugs. It is the vision of the Cold War, of the Nazi and of countless tin-horn dictators over the last fifty years. And while […]

By Bill Wilson — The North Carolina legislature should impeach Governor Beverly Perdue, who has called for the suspension of the U.S. Constitutional requirement for federal elections.  This is all a part of a disturbing trend on the hard left, showing their antipathy toward the people’s right […]

By Bill Wilson — Once again, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has inserted himself into the European sovereign debt crisis — revealing that there are genuine fears that the chaos will spread over here. Last time, it occurred in May when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) proposed that unsecured bondholders of Irish debt take losses on their holdings, a plan vetoed by Geithner , as revealed by University College Dublin’s Morgan Kelly. Now, as […]

By Bill Wilson — In the face of a deteriorating economy, the liberal-left has been scurrying to assign blame for the impending disaster while offering “solutions” that would further entrench their stranglehold over America.  It has become a mantra, repeated over and over from all quarters of […]

By Bill Wilson — On Sept. 21, the Federal Reserve announced its latest plan to “[t]o support a stronger economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at levels consistent with the dual mandate”. Dubbed Operation Twist after the famous 1960’s dance, this time the Fed plans to sell $400 billion of short-term U.S. treasuries […]