Looking back through the lens of history we tend to accept the sequence of events that gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as somehow inevitable.  Most Americans make little or no distinction between ratification of the Constitution …

A news station in Atlanta had two stories this week that add still more definition to the impetus Arizona law makers had for passing SB1070.

The stories may be viewed here:

http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/

http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438712/

What is most interesting is not that …

The preamble to the Constitution of the United States, the supreme law of the land, is a marvelously succinct one sentence explanation of the purpose of government.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more

From a CBS News Story:

Early on the morning of 9/11, Mohammed Atta and another hijackers appeared at the U.S. Airways counter in Portland, Maine. Tuohey checked them in for the 6 a.m. flight to Boston.

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What ran …

“… the Constitution should be interpreted in ways that adapt its principles and its text to the challenges and conditions of our society in every single generation.”  Goodwin Liu

Until today, that is, when, on being confronted with his own …

Upon reading the title of Federalist No. 6, Concerning Danger from War Between the States, I thought, “I’ll just give it a cursory read.”  (I intend to read them all.)  There are distinct groupings of the Federalist Papers. Some …

In the fall of 1787 an anonymous anti-Federalist, writing under the pseudonym Centinel, wrote Anti-Federalist Arguments from Pennsylvania.  The first of these two letters appeared in the Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer on October 5th of that year.

Centinel suggests that …

Congressman Hank Johnson, Democrat from  Georgia, recently explained the logic behind his party’s  immigration policies.  Providing  amnesty to illegals and  keeping the borders as porous as possible are actually motivated by national security concerns. These measure …