Category — Constitution

“There is also a constitutional right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness…”

Hillary Clinton

Huh? Where to even start with this statement by Hillary Clinton? Let’s begin with the fact that the erstwhile prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic …

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A conversation with Sergei.   Read the rest of this entry »

Here is something unexpected from Richard Dreyfuss.   Read the rest of this entry »

Psychologist B.F. Skinner coined the term operant conditioning in 1948 to refer to any behavior that generates consequences. Today, the American people are the rats in the cage.   Read the rest of this entry »

Here's a quick little crossword for your Friday. The words are taken from a speech delivered by Madison to the Congress, in which he introduced the Bill of Rights.   Read the rest of this entry »

What with all the controversy over Justice Department snooping in reporters’ phone conversations and the National Security Agency tracking cell phone and Internet use of private citizens one would think that there would be an even louder uproar over the collection of personal information mandated by the Affordable Health Care Act. The silence is not only deafening, it is depressing.   Read the rest of this entry »

This book is part biography and part social and political history. Quitt draws on previously untapped sources to try to do justice to a complex man now little more than a footnote to history. The irony is that, in his time, Douglas was widely admired and thought much more likely to ascend to the presidency than the man whose election relegated him to the shadows. If Douglas is remembered at all, it is for debating Lincoln in 1858 when Lincoln ran for Douglas’s Senate seat.   Read the rest of this entry »

The rule of law is the foundation for our liberties and our economy. It simply means that we can organize our lives, operate our businesses and plan our futures in the certainty that the laws of the land apply to each of us equally. It means that no one is above the law, not our neighbor and not our president.   Read the rest of this entry »

Just when you thought he couldn’t sink any lower, he exceeds your expectations. The photo of President Obama signing twenty-three executive orders sighted in on the Second Amendment demonstrates that this man and his party will use any means and anyone, including children, to further their agenda.   Read the rest of this entry »

In the following article, Timothy Roth discusses how we have strayed from the principles on which the republic was established, and the future course of the Supreme Court’s constitutional jurisprudence.

Sobering stuff.

The Future of the Supreme Court in Obama’s …

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