Amendment I – Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to…
Category: Constitution
Setting the Nation on Fire
Most people agree that our world faces major threats, but they wildly disagree on what those threats are. Unfortunately when you can’t identify the real threats, you end up fighting for the wrong causes. After two recent mass shootings journalists…
To Our Fathers and Grandfathers Who Fought
America owes everything to you. You sacrificed your youth, you saw your buddies die before your eyes, you gave up life and family and love as you fought in Europe or the Pacific — all to save the world from…
Government Supremacists Neocons: The National Security New Dealers
Dana Milbank’s 2006 article “A War of Words: ‘Declare’ vs. ‘Make’ and Its Allies” correctly points out how John Yoo and the rest of the neo-conservative cabal, masquerading as originalists, are engaged in a thinly veiled rewriting of our Constitution to…
All American Politicians and Bureaucrats
To: Members of Congress and Appointed Bureaucrats. Americans’ personal freedoms are waning rapidly. Our nation has been invaded and infiltrated in front of our eyes, while, at the same time, actual American citizens have seen our own most fundamental unalienable…
An Open Letter To Senators Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Et. Al
S.7 – Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2019 I am writing this open letter to Senators Rubio and Graham, President Trump and the untold numbers of legislators, judges and lawmen that will be working together to…
The Lock on the Chain
Many of us have heard of the Constitution of the United States referred to as “The chains that bind government.” Those “chains” have a “lock”. Unfortunately, those with intent to unlock this lock have had such great success that few…
Virtue And Freedom
There has been a long-standing effort of anti-Christian scholars and propagandists to de-Christianize America. Many Christians have been misled by disinformation generated by anti-Christian writers who attempt to obscure or deny the Christian nature of our heritage, attempting to rob…
Sheep, Wolves and Sheepdogs
“Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that…
A Time For Choices
Timothy Daniel “Big Tim” Sullivan, sometimes called “King of the Tenderloin” was a man who was allowed to live longer than he should have. It could never have happened in a Bill of Rights Culture. Part of the infamously corrupt…
Living Off the Interest
Depending on who you happen to listen to, some two-thirds, or three-fourths, or nine-tenths of the United States government is illegal — meaning that what it is and what it does it falls outside the limits prescribed by Article I,…
Wouldn’t It Be Nice? The Rule of Law….
Has it ever struck you as a little odd that in a country with a Thirteenth Amendment that outlaws “involuntary servitude of any kind”,there’s also a “Selective Service” system that forces men, on pain of imprisonment or death, to join…
What Makes America Great?
Five decades after America gained independence, the French author Alexis de Tocqueville remarked on our nation’s exceptional character. Unlike other nations that were defined by ethnicity, geography, common heritage, social class, or hierarchal structures, America was a nation of immigrants…
Political Poison
When I was growing up, people around me — public school teachers, national and local political leaders, the broadcast and print media, other useless busybodies — were very enthusiastic about the idea of compromise. Compromise, they always proclaimed in glowing…
Celebrate The Bill of Rights Every Day
December 15, 1791 marks the most momentous day in human history. On that day, the first ten amendments to the then-new United States Constitution were ratified, placing severe limits — for the first time in in thousands of years —…