One of the most pernicious distortions of the plain meaning of the Constitution is the conceit that U.S. citizenship automatically belongs to anyone born in America. It doesn’t. A correct interpretation and application of the 14th Amendment makes this clear. This amendment, ratified in 1868, was enacted for one simple purpose: to grant citizenship to […]
John Kasich was quick to condemn President Trump for being un-Christlike by seeking to stop the invading army of thousands of illegal aliens snaking its way across Mexico. After all, Kasich says, Jesus taught the story of the Good Samaritan to teach us that we as a nation should throw our borders and our arms […]
The Trump administration is weighing in on the subject of transgenderism, and the good news is that Trump officials are weighing in on the side of biological truth. At last, some sense of rationality and sanity is returning to the public debate on this topic. Title IX in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans […]
By now, most Americans will have heard about the rituals performed in Brooklyn last Saturday (October 20) to place hexes on new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The “Witches of Bushwick” carved his name into a black candle, doused it in “Revenge Oil,” and then set it on fire. Three “poppets” – cloth dolls made […]
We are locked in an intense civil war over the values that will govern our life as a nation. I recently read a column by media consultant Peter Leyden and political commentator Ruy Texeira, perceptively entitled The Great Lesson of California in America’s New Civil War. The whole thing is worth the read, because it’s […]
Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court despite vicious, cruel, and slanderous opposition represents a high water mark in American politics. It represents the victory of order over chaos, rationality over insanity, and the rule of law over disorder and violence. It represents the victory of the Constitution over anarchy, the victory of a republican […]
The left has been whipped into a froth by the prospect of removing President Trump from office by using the 25th Amendment. Reading comprehension has never been a long suit of regressives – they routinely distort, mangle, bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate the words of the right to accuse them of something they did not […]
Reporters in this era of counterfeit news rarely cover themselves with glory, and seem even less likely to traffic in the truth. Their modus operandi is to twist, distort, mangle, and deliberately misinterpret what conservatives say, then launch a shameless, all-out fusillade against the object of their vitriol. If you doubt me, take a look […]
An accuser has crawled out of the shadows to charge Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh with sexual assault. The accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, contends that 36 years ago Kavanaugh, in a drunken stupor, shut her in a room at a party and clumsily attempted to undress her. She contends that another male, apparently one Mark […]
Both former president Barack Obama and the current DNC chairman, in an effort to scare Democrats enough to get out and vote, said last weekend that democracy itself is on the ballot in November. Here is the former president: “You need to vote because our democracy depends on it.”