The Coming Constitutional Debate: A Citizen’s Guide
I received an email from Hillsdale College today stating the following:
Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship is publishing a series of white papers on topics related to the revival of limited constitutional government. …
May 26, 2010 1 Comment
James Madison And The Struggle For The Bill of Rights by Richard Labunski
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 …
May 25, 2010 5 Comments
Constitutionally Confused
One usually needn’t work too hard to find examples in the New York Times of creative constitutional thinking, but a recent op-ed piece by Gail Collins deserves special attention. Â In short, Ms. Collins finds it outrageous that persons appearing …
May 24, 2010 2 Comments
The Five Thousand Year Leap, What We Seem to Have Forgotten
Like the drunk who wakes up in an unfamiliar place, we wonder, “How did we get here?†We appear to be in America, but the landscape is unfamiliar.
According to the US Census Bureau, in the third quarter of 2008, …
May 23, 2010 4 Comments
Addendum to Post: Arizona’s Immigration Law SB1070
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 …
May 19, 2010 1 Comment
Arizona’s Immigration Law SB1070
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
May 17, 2010 1 Comment
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
May 12, 2010 9 Comments
Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” — Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Since posting my “call to action” after the passage of Obamacare, I have …
May 10, 2010 No Comments
Hypocrisy?
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 …
May 6, 2010 1 Comment
From Resistance to Revolution by Pauline Maier
President Obama and members of the Democratic Party (with the connivance of the MSM) are portraying the Tea Party movement as out of the mainstream of American political tradition. Pauline Maier in her book, From Resistance to Revolution, reveals …
April 20, 2010 No Comments
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