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<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> The Democratic Party, and especially the outgoing Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, must be wondering if their confident stride over the past four years didn’t just gallop them right past a forbidden threshold.

2013-05-20T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley As Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy emerged from the IRS hearings in Congress on Friday, he was overheard to say, &quot;I... 005b2b60-3cc5-475c-96c0-fe7ac533bd73

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> Four Americans died, several others were injured, a crucial CIA watch post was abandoned, and Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton have risked their political futures. But Obama did get re-elected, so I guess the investment paid off as planned.

2013-05-12T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley Most members of the White House press corps have been more comfortable talking to their children about sex than reporting to the American... 92cd9cee-9296-45a2-99fc-5151b8e9936c

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> The classic force majeure is that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We have certainly seen enough of the pure professionals who only see founding principles as bothersome considerations toward gaining and keeping positions of authority.

2013-05-06T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley Most theories on political tension include expressions of degrees on a scale. Terms like left wing and right wing can prove useful for... 7b237094-fe90-4dc6-b2d8-7d2ac9bfcd5b

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> America’s path to restoring freedom is to remember the laws of nature and of nature’s God. The Founding Fathers gave us the outline in the succinct and eloquent words of the Bill of Rights. They also gave us countless quotes of caution.

2013-04-28T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley Among the many thoughtful details that the founders bequeathed to the rest of us is the purposeful naming of our nation; The United States of... 247fad2a-272c-4dd9-b99e-5ae1cc185b07

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> Amendments Three through Eight in the United States Constitution address a variety of legal matters that seek to protect citizens in their commonplace interactions with government.

2013-04-21T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley Amendments Three through Eight in the United States Constitution address a variety of legal matters that seek to protect citizens in their... 5eeabefa-223c-4eda-a3c2-bb1f0fea75bf

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> Gun control advocates frequently emphasize the first half of the Second Amendment in an attempt to get a foothold for their intentions.

2013-04-14T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley The Second of our Bill of Rights reads, &ldquo;A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the... fb4fa205-b9ee-42df-a366-a4d84671f5d5

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> If the Left were as purist about the second half of the First Amendment as they are with the first half, they would oppose taxpayer funding for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

2013-04-07T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley The First of our Bill of Rights reads, &ldquo;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free... b7cd12f0-5bd7-45b7-b6d7-1d120ce0b249

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> A citizen is incapable of violating the First Amendment. As is evident with every one of the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment was never intended as a restriction on citizen behavior. It is a restriction on government alone.

2013-03-31T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley The First Amendment to the Constitution was reserved for the position of highest priority of human rights in the minds of the British rebels... 2cde0e43-3640-49f6-80a3-b44f2777be43

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> This article is the first in a series on the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution.

2013-03-25T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley This article is the first in a series on the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution. My purpose in posting this expos&eacute; is to... e23c38c5-e1d8-4535-bc0d-92519722d772

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> With the last chock removed from the wheels last November, Democratic lawmakers are now passing one gun-control bill after another. And the majority party leadership recently got plenty of help from Washington to ensure that those bills passed both chambers.

2013-03-17T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley Before elected officials assume their honored position of representing the people, they are required to swear an oath, and pen their signature... b83775ff-b9a6-4205-9ae1-8cd2aefb80e9

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> The unacknowledged rift between established and emerging Republican Senatorial leaders was first revealed by the separate events Wednesday evening.

2013-03-10T00:01:00-05:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley Two top grossing features debuted in Washington, D.C. this week. While the biggest box office was the Frank Capra headliner starring Rand Paul... ed9d84cc-5265-4558-9bb3-1c4a689dff0f

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> Jefferson made three references to “kings, nobles and priests” -- and none of them pretty -- in his letter from France to George Wythe that are appropriate for today.

2013-03-04T00:01:00-05:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley Before Thomas Jefferson took office as the third President of the United States, he spent five years as America&rsquo;s Minister... 8029f860-c491-4618-8470-6888bdbb7d5b

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> Hamilton adds his deep wisdom by predicting that when mortals codify a divine right, they make it vulnerable to diminution by political hucksters.

2013-02-25T00:01:00-05:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley Founding father Alexander Hamilton was highly skeptical of adding a bill of rights to the United States Constitution. This signer of... 4c987e21-c1af-410e-8329-bc9212811254

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> The Republican Party has been suffering a phase of being out-of-vogue in recent years. But I just had a glimpse backstage and it looks like a reanimated elephant is getting ready to step back into the center ring

2013-02-17T00:01:00-05:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley There is a natural order of customs: A value influences a practice that becomes a tradition. Once separated by time from the value, the... 6d73cd9f-ce66-4820-ab97-01d5e02d6741

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> Republicans now watch in frustrated helplessness as the Democratic majority plunges every conservative principle toward an ominous depth. Local activists and liberty groups have been sounding a persistent alarm to those at the party cockpit for a couple of years now.

2013-02-11T00:01:00-05:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley On the first day of June in 2009, Air France Flight 447 took off from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil bound for Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris,... 15acbbc9-762a-4b62-ae21-c2d86ee2e5f9

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> Let's start by shouting down the Founders: "If we are to take back our own country, we have to start making decisions for ourselves, and stop deferring to an ancient and outdated document.”

2013-02-03T00:01:00-05:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley Three newsworthy statements were reported over the past week that present a disturbing pattern for me. President Obama’s ambitions for... 310b808d-cc01-4c6d-8e48-508ee5e81e41

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> The Democrats have been given a two year window to rush every utopian ideal through its army of despotic bureaucrats.

2013-01-27T00:01:00-05:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley The next two years are going to be rough. The Democrats have been given a two year window to rush every utopian ideal through its army of... 4f74448b-3e3a-450f-9102-fb592ec1bf1e

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> Martin Luther King is an American original whose very public and consistent priorities elude the annual attempts by political parties to claim him as their favorite son.

2013-01-20T00:01:00-05:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley This week, we celebrate what would have been the 84th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This April will mark the 45th anniversary of his... f865dee2-31cb-40c7-bdd9-b2b4f7967686

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> Real Clear Politics has uncovered an organized, well-funded and concerted effort by Washington Republican insiders to circle the wagons around incumbents who may see primary challenges. Scott Rasmussen described it in a headline as, “Republican Establishment Declares War on GOP Voters.”

2013-01-14T00:01:00-05:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley The very quotable British novelist Samuel Butler observed that, “Self-preservation is the first law of nature.” Reports coming from Washington... 1b1f534c-545b-4932-a8f1-932734c59148

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/'>Mark Baisley Column</a><br /> There emerges a new nobility, a special caste of liberal who holds status as an elected official, Hollywood superstar or business tycoon. Examples include conflicted American characters such as Warren Buffett, Rosie O’Donnell, and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.

2013-01-07T00:01:00-05:00 2013-05-23T18:45:13Z Mark Baisley Suffering the consequences of hypocrisy is usually reserved for public figures on the political right. The mere rumors of infidelity dissolved...