Year: 2024
America is fiddling while the Republic burns!
often look back and see events that were unbelievably destructive to the republic: 1913 and the passage of the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Amendments. The Depression-era attempts by the federal government to regulate the economy. Let’s not forget the 1970s, when the federal government tried to regulate everything else. Sometimes, I look back and wonder what…
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When you hire a tyrant and treat him as king
The American people have turned the office of the President into a king. We look to him to take care of everything, from natural disasters to unemployment. We blame the President for the budget and deficit, even though only Congress can authorize spending. We expect him to rule by executive order, rule, and regulation. We’ve…
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Repeating our mistakes
We’re human. We all make mistakes. The question is, do we learn from those mistakes? As more evidence regarding the malfeasance in the 2020 and 2022 elections comes to light, what are we going to do? As people take to the streets and their actions are promoted by corporate media, We the People have a…
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We’ve turned impeachment into a farce
Impeachment was designed to provide a method of holding members of the executive and judicial branches accountable. Members of the executive branch were to be impeached for treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors, which Webster’s 1828 Dictionary defines as “In law, an offense of a less atrocious nature than a crime.” Article III, Section 1…
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January 6th is on trial
One of the accusations against the Department of Justice is that it has been overcharging those accused of committing crimes during the demonstrations on January 6th, 2021. One of those claims of overcharging concerns the charge of obstruction of an official proceeding. The Supreme Court heard this question on April 16th, 2024. How the court…
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“The Constitution is a threat to national security” – Joe Biden
When there’s a conflict between the Constitution of the United States and claims of national security, which should win? Apparently, if the Biden Administration had its way, their claims of national security would trump the Constitution every time. Jordain Carney posted a document on X that she claims is a memo circulating within the Biden…
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418 – A Case of Advice or State Intimidation?
If there is a boogie man in the anti-gun community, it’s got to be the National Rifle Association. Accused of complicity in almost every gun crime from gang violence to mass murder, the NRA has become the lightning rod for the vitriol of those whose fear of firearms has grown to an irrational state. What happens though, when government actors advice others about the dangers of doing business with such a company? Is it merely warning of the dangers of sleeping with dogs, or an attempt to use their power to intimidate others into abandoning those they otherwise would do business with? The case of NRA v Vullo is just such a case?
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
My wife loves calendars; they are all over the house. There’s one in our bathroom that I look at most mornings, and I’m frequently amazed by the number of holidays listed. Yes, some of those holidays are for other nations, like Boxing Day or Anzac Day. Others are days of recognition, like the resolutions that…
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