3rd Quarter 2017: Making the Constitution More than Parchment
Pulling all of the hard work of the 3rd quarter 2017 together in one place. Missed a podcast or blog? Here are the best.
Compact for America Catches Fire!
It has been an incredible past few weeks for the Compact for America Initiative! We’ve enjoyed rapidly growing national, regional and local media coverage! The effort is on the edge of going viral. In North Carolina, Jones & Bount Published, “A Compact to Save America from Financial Ruin,” in which Compact for America Educational Foundation Scholar Dean Clancy (fmr VP of FreedomWorks) wrote about the crucial importance of North Carolina’s push to pass HB366-the Compact for a
The Social Media Manager Cometh
Welcome the newest member of the Compact for America team: Daniel Fortune. Daniel will serve as our Social Media Manager. He is a native of the bay area, a husband, Father of 5, and Army Veteran who is passionate about feeding hungry minds, building better businesses, and doing his part to make the world a better place. His first official act as Social Media Manager is to declare, "I look forward to working with the American people to #HelpMakeHistory!" #compactmomentum
Compact for America Goes to Washington!
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Welcome Greg Brooks and Baker Spring to the Team!
Compact for America Educational Foundation is thrilled to announce that Greg Brooks and Baker Spring have joined the team! Greg Brooks is the principal of West Third Group and will serve as Director of Communications for the Foundation. Greg has successfully led numerous communications campaigns, and he has actual skin in the game, having already donated significant time and travel expenses to advancing the communications objectives of the Foundation. Baker Spring is a federa
Let's Make the Debt Ceiling Debate Real
For the past year or so, there has been no statutory limit on how much the federal government borrows. The debt ceiling was abandoned in the last budget deal. But in the coming weeks, it is scheduled to return—along with the predictable illusion of a debate over whether to lift the ceiling or not. We can fairly predict the debt ceiling debate will boil down to political theater—cynics would call it a kabuki performance—because Washington always lifts the debt ceiling. Of cour
FEE's Larry Reed Joins the Board of Directors!
It's official: Lawrence Reed-the President of the Foundation for Economic Education-has joined the Compact for America Educational Foundation's Board of Directors! Reed has been and will continue to be a member of the Foundation's Council of Scholars. But now he will take on even greater responsibility. He will serve alongside Chairman Thomas C. Patterson (immediate past Chairman of the Goldwater Institute), CPA and investment banker Chip DeMoss, Constitutional scholar, talk
Compact for America's Six Week Sprint Status Update!
In the past six weeks, the Compact for America team has made huge strides. As you head out to reconnect with family and friends, here is some great progress you can report to them during the inevitable forbidden political discussions that will ensue: Arkansas is the first to file the Compact for a Balanced Budget bill for the 2015 session! For details, click here. The Compact for a Balanced Budget’s interstate Commission is now “live” with Alaska Governor Sean Parnell’s appoi
What Has Brought George Will, Judge Napolitano and Lawrence Lessig Together?
It's time to stop sending the bill for our debt spending to our kids. Together, we must stop taxation without representation. Towards that end, the Goldwater Institute's immediate past Chairman Thomas C. Patterson has joined Compact for America Educational Foundation's Board as Chairman in a nationwide deployment of a bipartisan/nonpartisan push to fix the National Debt by the end of next year!
Last week's election results make this push eminently plausible; and the failur
What Would Thomas Jefferson Do Now?
As argued by Compact for America grassroots supporter Barney Brenner in his recent Townhall column, Thomas Jefferson was right when he observed in a letter to a friend: I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution; I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its constitution. I mean an additional article taking from the federal government the power of borrowing. B
