Tag: Constitution

Complex Lies and Simple Truths

Life is complex. Sure, in the time of Covid you can tell everyone to stay home and starve, but they won’t do it. They won’t do it even though you’re emperor Cuomo of New York. Even with all your wealth…

D.C. Will Never Be A State

We have been down this road before, but it appears the time is again upon us to recycle the ridiculous idea of creating another liberal, blue state, out of a tiny federal district, to satisfy left wing democrats.  Can you…

Planned Failure

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 said was the…

The Battle of Athens, Tennessee

On August 1-2, 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government, used armed force as a last resort to overturn it. These Americans wanted honest open elections. For years they had asked for state or federal election monitors to prevent…

Our Founding Principles

Our Founding Principles, sometimes called First Principles, are the bedrock values that formed the basis of the American Experiment.  Of all those principles, I believe there were five firmly held by all fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention that formed…

HONOR OUR VETERANS

“For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace.  They fight not for the lust of conquest.  They fight to end conquest.  They fight to liberate.  They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among…

Identity Politics and the Death of Liberty

America started a “great experiment” in human history, that being the ideas of individual freedom and limited government. All of history before this assumed that the individual was subservient to the tribe, and governments had nearly absolute power over people…

Gun Sales and Private Ownership

September of 2020 was a record for both firearm sales and NICS background checks in the United States. There were 2,892,115 background checks done in September, and about 1.614 million firearm sales. The firearm sales is not a precise figure…

Biden Plans “Psych” Test for Gun Ownership

Can Presidents Ignore the Bill of Rights? His talk about AR-15 confiscation is overruled by new“character, suitability and ‘any other’ ” requirementsfor gun ownership; Second Amendment would be optional. The Bill of Rights ban on infringement would be ignored;Unelected bureaucrats…

Follow the Law

I’ve been holding back for a long time, readers and friends. This subject makes me angrier than any other and raises my blood pressure, which, at my age, I can ill afford. However, now that we’re well into the process…

The Durability of the US Constitution

“The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.” So said 19th century British Prime Minister Sir William Gladstone. September 17 marks…

“May Day”!

We are living in a dangerous political climate. The anti-American coup has escalated and the final nails are being driven into America’s coffin. In a speech on July 2, 2008, Obama said, We cannot continue to rely on our military…

The American Church Is Clinically Dead

“Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics.  God cannot sustain this free and blessed country, which we love and pray for, unless the Church will take right ground.  Politics are a part of religion in…