Impeachment of Donald Trump The impeachment of Donald Trump began within days of his election. At the middle of December, 2019, after 3 years in office, house Democrats, “with heavy hearts,” voted two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. Someday historians will be able to analyze the current emotional spectacle with the same detached rationality […]
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue… On October 11, 2019, President Trump issued a proclamation declaring October 14, 2019, as Columbus day. He did the same in previous years as did presidents before him since the day was made a national holiday in 1937 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This year whoever wrote […]
Why would it be even necessary to ask such a stupid question? Of course self-defense is a natural right and to think otherwise is further evidence of a distorted view of reality prevalent among some factions of society in the United States. Denial of physical and biological reality is finding its way into public discourse […]
We generally refrain from commenting on current events because such events almost always fade into obscurity along with the people responsible for those events. But there is something happening currently that is troubling. It’s not just one thing; it’s a constellation of events and the people behind them that cause us to question where it […]
Introduction Illegal immigration is aggression, a home invasion on a larger scale. But clearly the motives of most illegal immigrants are not those of home invaders. Or are they? More about this later. But the central question of this discussion is this: Will illegal immigration cause an end to American prosperity? The answer is YES, […]
What is the Price of Liberty? John Philpot Curran answered part of the question when he uttered these words during a speech in Dublin in 1790: “The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the […]
Once again the Supreme Court has taken a step to keep the Constitution up-to-date. On February 20, 2019, the Court unanimously ruled that the prohibition against excessive fines contained in the Eighth Amendment applies to state and local governments. The case was Timbs v. Indiana, 586 U.S. (2019) . The Court held that the Due […]
The vapid chattering class complains that the Founders were racist slave holders, that the Constitution says black men counted as only 3/5 of a person, and that this somehow discredits our entire foundation. To discredit the Declaration of Independence and Constitution on the basis of a faulty understanding of history is doing a great disservice […]
The Constitution of the United States is our Enduring Social Contract. Drawing on the ideas of great thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, our Founders devised a way to preserve our Liberty while surrendering as little as possible of our Natural Rights to the State in exchange for safety. They devised […]
Every year at Christmas time, a new flock of educators, administrators, and political activists feel compelled to reveal their ignorance about the Establishment Clause of the U. S. Constitution and push what they feel is the correct place for Christmas in an ever evolving religious landscape. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of […]
