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The Great Border Security Myth Both Parties Keep Alive

In 2016, Donald Trump 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 Mexico.

By Gary Johnson

January 23, 2018

The Great Border Security Myth Both Parties Keep Alive

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

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

By Gary Johnson

January 8, 2018

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

Founding Fathers Would Have Been Disgusted by Alabama Senate Race

I am really, really glad I wasn’t an Alabama voter last Tuesday. The choices: A Democratic candidate who, though apparently a decent fellow, can be expected to largely vote

By Gary Johnson

December 15, 2017

Founding Fathers Would Have Been Disgusted by Alabama Senate Race

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

Property rights are fundamental in America – or at least they are supposed to be. Yet each year, prosecutors and law enforcement agencies seize hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of

By Gary Johnson

November 21, 2017

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

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

It’s just wrong. 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

By Gary Johnson

October 18, 2017

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

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

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. In the aftermath of

By Gary Johnson

October 4, 2017

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

Gary Johnson Headed to SCOTUS

Focusing on whether a football player takes a knee or the president chooses to tweet about it misses a point. Our country is absorbed in partisan controversy, and the media

By Gary Johnson

September 27, 2017

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

Don’t blink or you might miss it. While much of our attention, and that of Congress, is appropriately focused on hurricane recovery, the United States Senate this week is

By Gary Johnson

September 13, 2017

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

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

Congress, you’re up. As expected, President Trump has ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program put in place by Barack Obama through executive action. No surprise there;

By Gary Johnson

September 6, 2017

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

Gary Johnson: Sheriff Joe Does Not Deserve Pardon

The Constitution vests the president with the power to pardon anyone he or she wishes. It’s one of the clearest authorities the Founders established. As with any power granted

By Gary Johnson

August 30, 2017

Gary Johnson: Sheriff Joe Does Not Deserve Pardon

Gary Johnson on Charlottesville: Let's Focus on Solutions, Not Finger Pointing

We all do it. As we go about our daily lives, we look past national problems that may not hit us personally. We know the problem is there, but we

By Gary Johnson

August 16, 2017

Gary Johnson on Charlottesville: Let's Focus on Solutions, Not Finger Pointing

Gary Johnson: America Needs Independent Reps Now

The Pew Research Center has been tracking Americans’ political party “identification” for more than 20 years. A few weeks before last year’s election, their annual survey found 33 percent

By Gary Johnson

August 1, 2017

Gary Johnson: America Needs Independent Reps Now