Thoughts from Maharrey Head
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Thoughts from Maharrey Head
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Are "greedy" corporations driving inflation? Could taxing billionaires solve the government's fiscal problems?In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I break down a couple of things that President Biden said this week that show he has
Words on paper don't enforce themselves. It's up to the people to maintain the Constitution.Lysander Spooner is well-known for dissing the Constitution. But he gave us a powerful blueprint for maintaining the government within its constitutio
People are all about limiting government power until somebody they like controls it. Then they want to expand it. This is a really dumb strategy -- especially if you want liberty.Mike Maharrey explains the problem with power in this episode o
We have a new boss in the U.S. House of Representatives. Unfortunately, he's pretty much the same as the old boss.Oh sure, House Speaker Mike Johnson might be superficially different from former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, but when it comes to th
The great antifederalist writer Brutus described a massive national debt that could never be repaid as "a calamity."And here we are.In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I put the national debt into perspective and explain why Bru
Most people in the U.S. revere George Washington. But sadly, most people reject his foreign policy.But I think we'd be a lot better off if American foreign policy looked a little more like Washington's and less like Hillary Clinton's, George
We were warned -- a party spirit is destructive to liberty. Unfortunately, we live in a world of partisan hackery.In this episode, I talk about the problems with a "party spirit" and how factions often lead to despotism.You can visit the sh
After a long hiatus, Thoughts from Maharrey Head is back!In this episode, I talk about political decentralization and why it's important for liberty.You can visit the show notes page here: https://bit.ly/3ZzonblThe Thoughts from Maharrey
Promoting my book "Constitution - Owner's Manual" has reminded me what an abysmal job government schools have done teaching us about the Constitution and the founding principles the government was based on. It's a clear case of educational malf
You cannot simultaneously support perpetual warfare abroad and limited government at home.Most people tend to separate domestic and foreign policy. The problem is, the two are intimately intertwined, and the things that happen "over there" do
Pres. Trump unilaterally ordered the execution of an Iranian general. Did he have the constitutional authority to take this action? The short answer is no. In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I explain why. More importantly, I expla
While everybody obsessed over impeachment, there was other news out there. Well, it wasn't exactly news, because pretty much nobody reported on it. But some significant things happened - things that could actually impact your life. Things the p
This week's episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head is a hard dose of reality.Both Republicans and Democrats claim to revere the Constitution. But do they? Really?I don't think they do. In fact, I think the vast majority of politicians, incl
Progressives don't like it so much when the government expands its own power in ways they don't like. One of the first articles I wrote for the Constitution 101 series was titled "Living and Breathing Is Dead." It makes the fundamental point th
Remember the Tea Party? Remember what it was all about? It was about taxing. spending and the national debt. Today, the Trump administration is running up Obama-era budget deficits. And a lot of the same people who were holding signs at Tea Par
You've probably heard President Trump brag about the economy. He's called it the best economy in American history. This is absolute hogwash. In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I explain why. I also talk about the real reason the ec
Most Americans think July 4, 1776, birthed a nation. It's didn't. It actually birthed 13 independent nations that soon formed a union. The notion that Independence Day birthed a nation is part of a broader "one nation" myth advanced by the like
Political activism can be pretty detached from our day-to-day lives. We fight for abstract principles like "liberty" and "limited government" and "constitutional principles." But this week, it got really personal for me.A friend of mine was i
If you learned anything about nullification in school, it's probably in relation to the Nullification Crisis of 1833. And if that's that's the case, you almost certainly learned several myths about nullification. In this episode of Thoughts fro
People keep telling me that military intervention in Venezuela would be perfectly constitutional because of the War Powers Act. Newsflash -- a congressional act does not amend the Constitution. In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I
A video going around Facebook blames Pres. Trump for lower tax refunds this year. The real problem is that people are dumb, and this video proves it.In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I break down this ridiculous video and dig in
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by London police and will likely be extradited to the U.S. to face charges in connection with secret documents obtained by Chelsea Manning and published on the WikiLeaks website. These documents rev
The Trump administration set an all-time record monthly budget deficit of $234 billion in February. I've actually had some people try to convince me this is somehow Obama's fault -- which is absurd. In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Hea
For some libertarian purists, legislation is never good enough. If a bill doesn't do absolutely everything that they want. they will call it "watered down" and actively oppose it, even if it takes a small step forward for liberty. This is a suc
Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election revived the debate over the Electoral College. There's a strong movement to do away with the system and replace it with a national popular vote. So, what's the problem? In this Episode of
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