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

Dave Neuendorf

February 19, 2007

The Republican congressional landslide of 1994 came about because the candidates made a lot of promises to work for less government at the federal level. Since . . .

Dave Neuendorf

October 6, 2006

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 . . .

Dave Neuendorf

September 15, 2006

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 . . .

Dave Neuendorf

June 19, 2006

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 . . .

Dave Neuendorf

May 24, 2006

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 . . .

Dave Neuendorf

April 1, 2006

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

Dave Neuendorf

March 18, 2006

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 . . .

Dave Neuendorf

February 16, 2006

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

Dave Neuendorf

January 25, 2006

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

Dave Neuendorf

January 12, 2006

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 . . .

Dave Neuendorf

December 28, 2005

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

Dave Neuendorf

December 7, 2005

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 . . .

Dave Neuendorf

November 23, 2005

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 . . .

Dave Neuendorf

November 2, 2005

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 . . .

Dave Neuendorf

October 19, 2005

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 . . .

Dave Neuendorf

October 5, 2005

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 . . .