“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful… and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell Corey Booker, Nancy Pelosi, Al Franken, Keith Ellison and the list goes on concerning those who have refused to…
“Liberal censorship” is technically an oxymoron. But today liberal censorship is a common reality. Where once free speech reigned on college campuses and in other secular institutions (or at least it was so thought), today you have the totalitarianism of…
One reason there’s a lot of confusion about rights from both liberals and conservatives is that there are different sorts of rights. Besides the distinction between legal and moral rights, we also need to distinguish the different sorts of claims…
Before my wife-to-be left her native Norway in the late 1970s to earn a master’s degree at Billy Graham’s alma mater, Wheaton, a friend of hers gave a gift—a knife. He said she’ll need it for protection—after all she was…
“Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of…
Belief in natural law and transcendent moral order laid the foundation for traditionalist conservative thought. Reason and Divine revelation inform natural law and the universal truths of faith. It is through these universal truths of faith that man orders himself…
A retired Supreme Court Justice says we should repeal the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. He praises recent gun protestors, saying their ‘massive’ display should be respected. Why then does the Justice ignore massive displays for years by…
Government has become so big and intrusive – Congress has passed so many laws, many unread, – the Justice Department so politicized – that there are few checks and balances left to restrain these petty tyrants. Prosecutorial discretion poses an increasing threat…
In order to be understood, one should take great pains to articulate what is meant by the words that come out of one’s mouth. Right? However, if you’re trying to hide what you mean or evade a revealing question, vague…
Nearly all of American constitutional law today rests on a myth. That myth, presented as standard history both in junior high civics texts and in advanced law school courses on constitutional law, runs something like this: A long, long time…
While discussing freedom of speech and freedom of religion with a group of German students in 2013, our then Secretary of State John Kerry insinuated that America’s First Amendment allowed our country to be stupid. Can’t imagine why that struck…
Most Americans assume that rulings and decisions handed down in cases that come before American courts are based on, and consistent with, the “rule of law”. But, regrettably, this is not true. In American courtrooms today, court rulings are not…
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be,” Let me quote Thomas Jefferson again… “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a…
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” Frederic Bastiat…
