The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – There’s an old adage in politics: "What you tax, you get less of. What you subsidize, you get more of." This is also true in a more generalized sense. For example, when a politician crushes the rights of the people they are supposed to serve, when the cities they run become dystopian cesspools, only to be given a sweet deal to teach others how to do it, you can’t...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Have you heard the idiom, “The fox guarding the hen house”? The idea of allowing the person committing the crime to protect you from it. That pretty much describes most governments in America today. Sure, we have three branches of government, and they are supposed to jealously guard their powers, thus providing the checks and balances needed...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – I’ve said before that probably the most important question to ask is why? Which is why it’s also one of the hardest questions to answer. So when I see some of what’s been on the news lately, the first question I ask myself is, “Why?” Take, for example, the recent acts by Anheuser-Busch, Target, and the LA Dodgers. Why would corporations be willing to lose millions...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – America is a very litigious society. This is born out by looking at the numbers. According to the American Bar Association, there are more than 1.3 million lawyers in the United States, while the Association of American Medical Colleges states approximately 940,000 total active physicians. While that number may not be shocking, you may be surprised...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – George Washington’s warning is once again being proven true. From the debt ceiling agreement to the impeachment of Ken Paxton, we can see our thirst for political revenge is as insatiable as ever. What does that mean for America’s future? As I frequently say, when it comes to political parties…

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – "Give them an inch, and they’ll take a mile." If there is one idiom to describe our Founding Father’s understanding of the need for a limited government, that has to be it. Over my lifetime, I’ve watched as government actors, at all levels, have taken mile after mile of our rights and liberties. Most of these illegal powers are vested not in elected...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – In the Preamble of the Constitution, we find the reason for that document and the purposes behind its drafting. One of those reasons was to “Establish Justice.” Not Social Justice or Economic Justice, but just plain justice, which, according to Noah Webster and his 1828 dictionary, is “The virtue which consists in giving to everyone what is his...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Once a year, America sets aside a day to preserve the memory of those who have given their last measure of devotion to this country. This day of memory is relegated by many to a simple holiday, a day off work, and a chance for a cookout. For others, it is a time for parades and decorating cemeteries. Regardless of how you treat this day, it is a day...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Noah Webster defined a “republic” in his dictionary as: “A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people. In modern usage, it differs from a democracy or democratic state, in which the people exercise the powers of sovereignty in person.” In order for a nation to be a republic...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Why are the progressives so obsessed with separating children from their parents? Hillary Clinton thinks you can’t raise your children and that “It takes a village to raise a child.” Personally, I like the retort I heard from Thomas Sowell. “It takes a village idiot to believe that!” Why do those who promote the public education system work...