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The Second Amendment is the reset button on the Constitution. But can the Deep State achieve gun control or gun confiscation without enablers in office? Gun control takes that away. Those who seek gun control often use mass shootings to press for it.

Militia, people, and commas

In the beginning of our great American experiment built upon freedom and liberty the word militia meant something far different than what most people believe it...

Harvard University Widener Library. In 2017 Harvard started black-only college graduations. Do universities even value freedom of speech anymore?

Education9 years ago

Cognitive dissonance

A most politically significant manifestation of cognitive dissonance occurs every day in democratic societies, and it has disastrous effects on their foreign and domestic policies.

Are these the only faces of terrorism? Or does that face belong to the group that assembled these faces?

Executive9 years ago

Barack Obama benefits terror

“The system of ‘terror’ was essential to Stalinism. … Terror was the creation to mold politically the control that they wanted.” – Condoleezza Rice, “Joseph Stalin:...

Alexis de Tocqueville would say that we deserve Anthony Weiner.

Education9 years ago

Rescuing America from Nihilism

We live in “age of atrocity” as well as in “age of stupidity,” an age in which “higher” education is steeped in Nihilism, a philosophy of...

World news9 years ago

Reckless endangerment

Paris, November 13, 2015, and yet again the “peaceful” religion of Islam struck another cowardice blow to unarmed civilians in soft target areas. This marks the...

James Madison, articulator of American exceptionalism. Madison would dispute the account of what George Mason said. He also objected to a convention for proposing amendments. But did he come a cropper by calling for separation of religion and politics?

Ignite the Pulpit9 years ago

Foreign enemy attack?

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” – James Madison

The Constitution, which sets forth the principle of rule of law, defines what is unconstitutional, and guarantees freedom of speech and other liberties of a Constitutional republic, and also describes the impeachment power. (How many know of the Jewish roots of this document?) Hypocrisy threatens Constitutional government. Could Israel use a constitution like this? More to the point: would a Convention of States save it, or destroy it? (Example: civil asset forfeiture violates the Constitution.) Quick fixes like Regulation Freedom Amendments weaken it. Furthermore: the Constitution provides for removing, and punishing, a judge who commits treason in his rulings. Furthermore, opponents who engage in lawfare against an elected President risk breaking the Constitution.

Let's Talk9 years ago

Trump trumps property rights

I watched Bret Baier interview Donald Trump about eminent domain. I am one of many Americans whose property is under assault by government (NJ), that thinks...

Obama keeps his origins secret and displays his thin skin.

Executive9 years ago

Inform Obama he is all alone

PM Benjamin Netanyahu knows as well as anyone that the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict is impossible. He knows it’s a fraud He is simply...

Guest Columns9 years ago

Liberal democracy: boring, decadent, deadly

To understand why democracy today is boring and decadent one can hardly do better than consult Alexis de Tocqueville. His classic, Democracy in America, is more relevant...

Obama interferes in Israeli elections. Does he also use taxpayer money to pay for it?

Judicial9 years ago

Democracy Israeli style

Back in 1997, the present author, known for his book on the American Constitution, managed to present a paper at the annual convention of the American...