A growing area of debate in America today centers around the Second Amendment, and more specifically, the ownership of various types of guns by average citizens. Many politicians, pointing to increases in crimes and shootings, have targeted specific firearms and the size and capacity of magazines. President Biden even recently announced executive actions to expand regulation of certain firearms. Many states, seeing this […]
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed the paper work and ready to go come January 21, 2021 to impeach Biden. Representative Greene is a newly sworn in freshman representative from Georgia. “I would like to announce on behalf of the American people, we have to make sure our leaders are held accountable, we cannot have […]
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 […]
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 […]
When our Founding Fathers brought our democratic republic into existence, they built it on a straightforward, unambiguous foundation. Government, whether at the state level or federal level, has a simple yet elegant charter, according to the Declaration: to protect our inalienable rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” (By this last phrase, the […]
A subtle suggestion during a jazz concert got me thinking about history, politics and energy What a marvelous evening it was. World-class drummer Tommy Igoe and his Birdland All-Stars treated the George Mason University Center for the Arts audience to a joyous evening of jazz, funk, Brazilian and original music that featured new renditions of […]
Some may ask, what is the Fourth Estate and what does it have to do with our freedom? The term “fourth estate” has various definitions. Some refer to it as the guardian of democracy or defender of the public interest, and it is generally referred to as the newspaper or mass media profession. When our […]
Note: this is the first in a series of columns written to explain the theme “Everything you’ve heard about the Constitution is wrong.” I’m starting this series in honor of the Constitution, which had its 230th birthday on Sunday, September 17, 2017. An obviously distressed young female student came into the office of Cornell’s lead […]