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It is indeed sad that 40 percent of millennials favor the government banning speech that some deem offensive, according to a recent Pew poll. 

Even more distressing is that college students have plenty of company with members of other age groups and professions who want to shut down speech they disagree with.

While world leaders gathered at the Paris climate conference promised to curb pollution, little has been said about the cost and economic impact of such measures.

WASHINGTON –  There have been 143 security breaches or attempted breaches at facilities secured by the Secret Service in the last 10 years, according to a lengthy House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report critical of the agency released early Thursday.

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) released a report Monday calling on lawmakers to tackle government waste and inefficiencies.

You’ve heard of the NSA collecting private information on U.S. citizens. A newly-released court filing shows that the FBI has gotten into the game as well.

The following article was written by Josh Barker, a 14-year-old member of the Convention of States team in Georgia. It was originally published in the Macon Telegraph. Way to go, Josh!

Every second of every day it's rising. It's rising very quickly yet quietly. Some try to ignore it, but no matter how hard we try, it is still there. The amount is astronomical. It is almost equal to the number of feet between the Sun and Pluto, and about three and a half times the surface area of our planet in square centimeters. I'm talking about the national debt. It's rising by around $900,000 a minute, which is about $15,000 a second.

We often say that Mark Levin's book The Liberty Amendments catapulted the Convention of States Project years into the future. It's true. Mark's book is the reason thousands of volunteers and supporters have joined the Article V movement, and, since then, Mark has been one of the staunchest advocates for the Convention of States Project.

We've all been there. Someone publishes an uninformed letter in the local newspaper, and for the next fifteen minutes you recite everything you would say to the author if he or she was standing in front of you. Here's an idea: take another fifteen minutes to type out your thoughts and send them in to that same newspaper. It's a great way to correct misconceptions about the Convention of States process, and it doesn't take much time at all. Here's a great example from one of our Arizona supporters:

"Scrap constitutional convention method" (Nov. 27 letter by Grant Rees) is proposing nothing more than another way to skin the same cat ... with apologies to animal lovers everywhere.

The Pew Research Center released a new survey last week, and it doesn't look good for the federal government.

As our country looks forward to tomorrow’s holiday -- a chance to rest, eat, and spend time with family and friends -- Americans from coast to coast will pause and say thanks for everything they have been given. Some will mention food, rest, and family. Others will reflect on the freedom and prosperity that comes with living in this great nation.

An agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives used a government-issued credit card for cash advances so he could go to the casino while he was on duty.

The following article was written by Eugene Curtin and published in the Bellevue Leader.

Laura Ebke can perhaps relate to those small bands of colonial Americans who first began muttering about royal oppression while downing mugs of ale and composing rousing pamphlets.

The national debt has surged more than half a trillion dollars in the last three weeks, as the suspension of the debt ceiling in late October has allowed the government to borrow as much as it wants.

The following is an excerpt from an article written by Randolph J. May and published on The Hill.

On the second day of this now nearly gone year, I published an essay, "A Question for 2015: Is the FCC Unlawful?" In it, I stated that "there are reasons why this year will be a propitious time to examine — even more intensely than in the past — the FCC and its actions through just such a lawfulness frame of reference."

A new Reuters poll released Friday proved what many Americans know to be true: our country is headed in the wrong direction.

When it comes to the federal regulatory state, we don’t know what we don’t know.

A Senate committee is looking into the millions of taxpayer dollars being spent on ads to promote ObamaCare enrollment.

President Barack Obama’s war on coal has helped claim 1,500 more victims, this time in Erie, Pa., at a 100-year-old locomotive plant.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) objected to legislation that would prevent taxpayer funding from going towards oil paintings for members of government such as Harry Reid, Wednesday.

The 2015 American Values Survey was released yesterday by the Public Religion Research Institute, and the results are bleak: Americans overwhelmingly believe their country is headed in the wrong direction. Here are some high(low)lights.