<div><p>In 2016, <a href="http://ivn.us/tag/donald-trump" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Donald Trump</strong></a> ignited the imaginations of a vocal and politically-potent-in-Republican-primaries minority of American voters with a promise to build a big beautiful Wall across our border with Mex

The Great Border Security Myth Both Parties Keep Alive

<div><p>The holidays are over and it’s back to reality. Of course, part of that reality — for better or worse — if that the politicians have made their way back to Washington, DC.</p><p>To be clear, I am not suggesting that the politicians’ reality is the same as ours. That’s a big part of the probl

Congress Is Back In Session, But It Needs to Get to Work

<div><p>I am really, really glad I wasn’t an Alabama voter last Tuesday.</p><p>The choices: A Democratic candidate who, though apparently a decent fellow, can be expected to largely vote the big government, big spending party line, or….Roy Moore — homophobe, theocrat, and apparently, at best, a cree

Founding Fathers Would Have Been Disgusted by Alabama Senate Race

<div><p>Property rights are fundamental in America – or at least they are supposed to be.</p><p>Yet each year, prosecutors and law enforcement agencies seize hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cars, homes, cash and other property, with no due process to determine guilt or innocence, or even w

Civil Asset Forfeiture: A Clear Threat to Property Rights in America

<div><p>It’s just wrong.</p><p>Go to the websites of major polling organizations and look at their measurements of “party identification.” You’ll find something interesting: Sometimes the graphs will show two lines: one for Democrats and one for Republicans. But sometimes, they show&nbsp;<em>three&n

Gary Johnson: "Allowing GOP and Dems to Control Presidential Debates is Un-American"

<div><p>It is tragic that it has taken a mass murder of historic proportion to remind us that the vast, vast majority of people are fundamentally good.</p><p>In the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting, we have witnessed and learned of countless acts of heroism, courage, kindness and generosity. Stra

Gary Johnson: Here's How You Have a National Conversation About Guns

<div><p>Focusing on whether a football player takes a knee or the president chooses to tweet about it misses a point.</p><p>Our country is absorbed in partisan controversy, and the media plays right along.</p><p>Kneel to fight for social justice? That's freedom of speech.</p><p>Stand to recognize th

Gary Johnson Headed to SCOTUS

<div><p>Don’t blink or you might miss it.</p><p>While much of our attention, and that of Congress, is appropriately focused on hurricane recovery, the United States Senate this week is quietly taking up the <strong>National Defense Authorization Act</strong> that will set the Pentagon’s budget and p

Gary Johnson: President Must Get Congress' Approval to Go to War

<div><p>Congress, you’re up.</p><p>As expected, President Trump has ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (<a href="/tag/daca" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>DACA</strong></a>) program put in place by Barack Obama through executive action. No surprise there; Trump promised to end DACA 

Gary Johnson: Time for Congress to Do Right Thing on DACA

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