The Founding Fathers set out to craft a Constitution for the specific purpose of telling the new central government what it could NOT do. Patrick Henry and others refused to support the new Constitution because it did not contain a Bill of Rights, which would set out clearly the rights ordinary Americans possess which the […]
Governor Jay Inslee of Washington has instituted, by royal decree, a regulation that turns any ordinary citizen who defies his Coronavirus testing edict into a criminal. In fact, such a person will not be allowed even to leave his home to buy food or pick up prescription medication. This, of course, is for our benefit. […]
I’m not going to sugarcoat it; we are not guaranteed a single thing in this life. Not safety, not security, not happiness, not a good job, not comfort, and not convenience. Yet, that’s what we expect. Dr. Fauci said something in a recent interview that was disturbing to me. He told NPR that he “can’t […]
There’s an old joke that goes like this: How does a lifelong conservative voter in Chicago switch to being a liberal voter? He dies. If the left is so great and their ideas are so wonderful, then how come they often have to cheat to win elections? During the coronavirus, with its extraordinary upending of […]
Neil Gorsuch struck a stinging blow Monday against the monstrous Roe v. Wade ruling in his majority opinion in a Supreme Court case, Ramos v. Louisiana. The Ramos case dealt with a state law that allows a less than unanimous verdict to convict a defendant of a serious crime (Ramos was convicted on a 10-2 […]
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ~ Benjamin Franklin In our hysterical overreaction to the Chinese virus, we have flattened the Constitution instead of the curve. President Trump has resorted to federalism and left public policy decisions in the hands of governors, which […]
Oral arguments were heard last week before the Supreme Court on the legal challenge to a Louisiana law that requires an abortionist to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of his clinic. This is so a woman who experiences a medical emergency during an abortion can get quality emergency care. Anybody who […]
One of the things that ought to offend every American who loves the Constitution is the alarming tendency of lowly district courts to issue nationwide injunctions. This is appalling. District courts by definition have legal authority in their districts and nowhere else. They may issue an injunction that they intend to apply to the entire […]
President Vladimir Putin has named Tax Service chief Mikhail Mishustin as Russia’s new prime minister, the Kremlin said Wednesday. The 53-year-old Mishustin has worked in the government since 1998 and kept a low profile while serving as the head of the Federal Tax Service since 2010. The Russian leader made the appointment after he engineered […]
May 20, 2010 “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgement to the very first radical: From all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the very first radical known to man, who rebelled against the establishment, and did it […]
