Dave Neuendorf column

Dave Neuendorf of Aurora, Indiana, is a software development consultant with a lifelong interest in history and politics. He has been writing his biweekly column from a Christian, conservative/constitutionalist/libertarian perspective since 1994. It is published by his hometown newspaper, the Aurora Journal-Press. An archive of Dave's columns may be found at http://www.neusysinc.com/columnpublication.html

Federal tax policies are exerting unhealthy pressures on our economy and other aspects of our society. Think about how you choose your investments. Surely you . . .

The Constitution gives the president exactly one method for preventing a law passed by Congress from taking effect: the veto. President Bush has chosen largely . . .

Back in February 2006 AD, president Bush ignited a firestorm of criticism when he approved the sale of several US port operations to a company owned by the . . .

On April 10, the Year of Our Lord 2006, the Kentucky State Board of Education decided that text books used in that state would display the "BCE" (Before the . . .

Americans have been talking for years about "immigration reform." In coming weeks Congress is finally poised to do something about it. Senate majority leader . . .

US District Judge David Hamilton ruled on November 30, 2005 that anyone offering public prayers in the Indiana state legislature must not mention the "name or . . .

While President Bush continues to promote his "non-amnesty" guest worker amnesty proposal, our border security continues to deteriorate. Most recently, Mexican . . .

Regular readers of this column know that I generally give politicians credit for intentionally doing whatever evil they do, rather than ascribing their actions . . .

The internet has had profound effects on life in our time. It has changed the way we buy and sell things. It has provided many novel ways of communicating . . .

The New York Times recently revealed a secret presidential order allowing the National Security Agency (NSA) to intercept phone calls and emails between people . . .

President Bush recently visited Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, the top communist oligarchs of the Peoples Republic of China. During his visit, the president gently . . .

For years, conservatives have been concerned that the IRS interferes with religious freedom when it threatens a church's tax exemption based on any political . . .

The internet started as a project to provide the US military with redundant communications. As its scope grew to the giant public network that it is today, our . . .

Congress is currently considering the Free Flow of Information Act of 2005, commonly called the "shield law." The intent of the law is to make it possible for . . .

George Washington was in many ways the best of our presidents. One can get a glimpse of his wisdom concerning the way our government should operate in his . . .