Tag: Mike Maharrey

Making Public School Meals Safer?

February 8, 2025 John Klar

As the MAHA movement of the Trump-Kennedy alliance takes shape post-election, one area for potential bipartisan progress is improving the healthfulness of school lunches that feed 30 million US children each school day. As with many complex challenges, the Safe School Meals Act awaiting consideration in 2025 elicits broad agreement on desired ends but confronts … Read more

Making the FDA Great Again?

January 20, 2025 John Klar

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced new requirements for foods to be labeled as “healthy.” Americans increasingly realize that not everything labeled edible is good for them; in principle, the change is much needed. The problem is that the FDA’s definition of what is healthy, based on many of its past policies, … Read more

NH Bill Would Ban A.I. Facial Recognition Surveillance

January 3, 2024January 2, 2024 Op-Ed

A bill pre-filed in the New Hampshire House would effectively ban government surveillance using facial recognition in the state. The passage of this bill would not only help protect privacy in New Hampshire, but it would also hinder one aspect of the federal surveillance state.

Is This the Least Important Part of the Constitution?

August 19, 2023 Op-Ed

Most people are familiar with the Constitution’s preamble. A lot of people were required to memorize it in school. But while the preamble is arguably the best-known part of the Constitution, it is the least important.

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America isn’t “One Nation” and that Matters

August 12, 2023 Op-Ed

The Pledge of Allegiance is wrong. These United States are not “one nation, indivisible.” They are a federation. This may seem like semantical nitpicking, but it is an extremely important distinction that impacts how we understand the powers of the general government. Black’s Law Dictionary explains the difference between a federal and a national government. … Read more

Unraveling the “One Nation” Myth

July 31, 2023 Op-Ed

You’ve been lied to. America is not “one nation.” I know this feels shocking. You’ve proclaimed the United States of America is “one nation, under God, indivisible” your entire life. But you’ve been parroting a myth.

Three Essentials to Understand the Constitution

July 26, 2023 Op-Ed

Textualism is a prominent framework for interpreting the Constitution, particularly in conservative circles. Adherents of this school generally believe you can understand the Constitution simply by reading the words in the document and determining the “plain meaning” of the text. This differs from the “intent” of the framers or the “original meaning” as understood by … Read more

Whose Fault Is This?

July 23, 2023July 23, 2023 Op-Ed

The Constitution was supposed to create a general government limited to a few specific listed powers. Instead, we ended up with the biggest, most powerful government in the history of the world.

Today in History: The Fairfax Resolves Adopted – Condemning British Constitutional Violations

July 18, 2023 Op-Ed

On July 18, 1774, a committee led by George Washington in Fairfax County, Virginia, voted to adopt the Fairfax Resolves condemning British actions against the colonies and calling for an embargo on British imports and exports. It represented growing colonial resistance, which ultimately led to a British gun control program and the march on Lexington and … Read more

St. George Tucker: Our Original Originalist?

July 15, 2023 Op-Ed

On July 10, 1752, St. George Tucker was born. He wrote the first systematic commentary on the U.S. Constitution and was one of the most influential jurists and legal scholars during the formative years of the United States.

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Government Power Is Like a Deadly Disease

June 18, 2023 Op-Ed

Government power is like a deadly disease.

If you don’t nip it in the bud, it grows faster and faster – and more dangerous.

That’s what the Founders and Old Revolutionaries warned us about – repeatedly. As a result of ignoring their warnings for generations, we now live under the largest government in history – and the disease keeps getting worse.

Benjamin Franklin Speech Exposes the Inherent Danger of Power and Money

June 7, 2023 Op-Ed

On June 2, 1787, Benjamin Franklin delivered a speech at the Philadelphia Convention opposing a provision in the proposed Constitution to pay the president a salary. The speech reveals some important aspects of human nature that we should keep in mind today. Franklin submitted a change to the proposed Constitution stipulating that instead of paying … Read more

Central Bank Digital Currency: Paper Money isn’t the Solution

October 17, 2023May 12, 2023 Op-Ed

Physical paper money solves some of the privacy and security issues inherent in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). But a lot of people seem to have forgotten that government-issued paper fiat is the parent of a CBDC, and it won’t solve the more fundamental problem – whether physical or digital, fiat currency isn’t real money. What Is … Read more

Here’s How the Federal Government Is Mucking Up the Inflation Fight

April 25, 2023 Op-Ed

By hiking interest rates, the Federal Reserve has pulled some of its monetary stimulus out of the economy. While the Fed hasn’t done nearly enough to put the inflationary fire it lit with more than a decade of easy money, cooling consumer price index (CPI) indicates that this has put a modest dent in price inflation — for now.

Federal Gun Control Enforcement Numbers Dip, But Biden ATF Maintains Status Quo

March 14, 2023 Op-Ed

Federal gun control enforcement numbers dipped in 2022, but the Biden administration still aggressively pursued enforcement, and kept things close to record levels.

Montana Governor Informs Feds State Won’t Enforce New Pistol Brace Gun Control Rule

February 18, 2023 Op-Ed

On Feb. 8, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland informing him the state will not enforce the recent ATF rule on pistol braces based on a state law prohibiting enforcement of some federal gun control that was passed in 2021.