The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here, pushing there, and generally increasing its control. Without a philosophically sound, constitutionally based political party opposing that process,… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political society. And voluntarily, through the private interaction of individuals and associations - what we can call civil society. ... In a civil society, you make the decision. In a political society, someone else does. ... Civil… — Ed Crane Copy Share
I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government. — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House Speaker Newt… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Do we really want the people who created $40 trillion of unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare in charge of our health care?… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and the power… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here, pushing there,… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
