Category Archives: National debt

WHAT A REAL SWORD OF DAMOCLES WOULD LOOK LIKE

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

By Anthony W. Hawks Why did the deficit reduction super-committee fail? For the same reason that the “Byrd Amendments” mandating a balanced budget failed in 1978, 1980, and 1982. For the same reason that the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law and its sequestration … Continue reading →

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CONCONCON 2011, RENT-SEEKING, AND RENT-TRAWLING

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

By Anthony W. Hawks The recent “Conference on the Constitutional Convention” (www.conconcon.org) at Harvard Law School began a civil and, I hope, fruitful dialogue among liberals, conservatives, and libertarians on the need and potential for an Article V convention to … Continue reading →

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ARTICLE V NEWS

Posted on October 8, 2011 by

By Anthony W. Hawks When I began this blog in June I wondered whether there would be enough Article V-related topics to sustain it. Fortunately, the summer gave us the debt ceiling debate, which provided a steady flow of commentary … Continue reading →

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News Media and the Language of the Political Left

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

by Mark Rhoads One surefire way for the Left to dominate any topical debate with conservatives is to get the news media to adopt their language first. They are extremely successful at this much of the time because large media … Continue reading →

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THE NEXT DEBT CEILING AND BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT DEBATES: DOING THEM RIGHT. MAKING THEM REAL – Part 5 (To Govern Is To Choose)

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

By Anthony W. Hawks This is the last in a series of posts about the recent debt ceiling debate. Although the national debt limit is a statute and not a constitutional requirement, I have tried to show in earlier posts … Continue reading →

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