How about trying Article V first?  That's what it's there for.  Senator Marco Rubio and Texas governor Greg Abbott are just the latest to see the light. The Framers foresaw this day, when the federal government itself is the greatest threat to our liberty.  All the mechanisms of limited government, federalism, and separation of powers – the true genius of the Constitution – that they so carefully drafted have been ignored or discarded.  What's left is an unaccountable, unreformable, power-mad colossus in Washington that reigns over a population seething with impotent resentment. Donald Trump is the symptom of our time, but he is not the answer.  In fact, none of the presidential candidates is.  A permanently corrupt Congress awaits the next president, as addicted to its perks and power, and as resistant to real reform, as it has ever been.  The real power in Washington lies with Congress, whenever they...(Read Full Post)