Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments: The Federalist II
I’m perplexed that Article V opponents have not, from time to time, embraced Federalist Numbers 49 & 50. Taken together in isolation from 48 and 51, a superficial read of… Read more »
Monthly Archives: September 2016
Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments: The Federalist I
As Mark Levin explained in Chapter One, he undertook his project not because he believed the “Constitution, as originally structured, is outdated and outmoded, thereby requiring modernization through amendments, but… Read more »
Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments: Introduction
Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments burst on the conservative scene in August 2013. Its appeal was not limited to conservative media outlets in talk radio and the internet; the book shot… Read more »
Donald Trump: The Machiavellian Man
America 2016 is in a bad place. Our once republic of laws, in which carefully designed institutions served the noble ends enumerated in the Preamble to the Constitution, has been… Read more »
Belonging to Government or to God?
Like me, you probably did an eye-roll when you were a middle school kid and read of the charge in our Declaration of Independence that King George III intended to… Read more »
Diversity is Our Demise
Somewhere in the 1980s, “diversity is our strength” made its debut. At the time, I gaffed it off as another Leftist idiocy that would soon fizzle out. How wrong I… Read more »
The Framers’ Senate
Charles de Montesquieu wrote, “At the birth of societies, the rulers of republics establish institutions; and afterwards the institutions mold the rulers.” The institution of the US Senate has indeed… Read more »
Government in Rebellion
The Latin rebellare means renewal of war. When a town or tribe was conquered and terms of peace agreed to, it was in rebellion if it violated its settlement with… Read more »
A Primer to The Preamble of Our Constitution
The government of our creation rarely does any of the things it is supposed to do, and spends enormous sums doing that which it is not empowered to do. The… Read more »