“Live As You Vote”, for example, only those who want higher taxes should pay them, and only those who want sugary drinks forbidden should be denied them. Those who oppose smoking, but don’t have the cojones to quit and want…
Tag: Constitution
The Battle of Athens, Tennessee
As Recently As 1946, American Citizens WereForced To Take Up Arms As A Last ResortAgainst Corrupt Government Officials. On August 1-2, 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government, used armed force as a last resort to overturn it. These…
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…
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…
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…
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 —…
Catch Twenty-Three
Okay, here’s a little scruples quiz for you … Imagine you’re a fireman in a small town where you know everybody. You rush into a burning hotel, and there, unconscious on the floor of one of the rooms lie a…
The Kevlar Class
Thanks to the good folks over at the Buckeye Firearms Association, I have just been “treated” to an hysterical blog entry scribbled by an individual named Paul Helmke, one of the Brady victim disarmament campaigners, pretending to be surprised and…
“BEING NECESSARY …
It’s likely that no sentence has ever received as much scrutiny as the twenty-seven words of the Second Amendment, one of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights and, as such,…
Enough is Enough
The twenty-seven simple, easily-understood words of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution have not proven clear and forceful enough to protect and defend the right it concerns, especially given its ideological enemies who willfully misunderstand it. In the…
With Friends Like These, Who Needs Democrats?
Rodney William Ansell was a widely-respected Australian cattleman, hunter, and outbacker, most famous for his survival skills under harsh conditions, who served as the model for the movie character “Crocodile Dundee”. His business and his family were destroyed by trendy…
Acting Like Serfs, Treated Like Serfs
These days it’s hard to keep up with all the stories about official government misconduct and police brutality. So what is it that makes so many “law enforcers” treat the rest of us like vermin to be stomped upon? If…
Your Rights As A Juror
When this nation was founded, the jury system was made a part of our system of government. This was done for one main reason: because the Founders did not trust judges, prosecutors, investigators, and other officials to administer justice. The…
There is No Wall Of Separation
“. . .One needs to protect the church from the state because the latter will utilize its enormous powers to do what the state has always done – either subvert the religion or destroy it. If we continue our slide…