When Republics Die
A shiver ran through me as I watched James Comey’s clumsy dance around the edges of why Hillary was guilty of selling out her country, yet would not be prosecuted…. Read more »
Hillary and Our Duty To Retrieve Free Government Part III
In parts I & II last April, I referenced Niccolo’ Machiavelli’s examination of the tough job that awaits good men in corrupt republics to restore free government. Just as a… Read more »
An Independence Day Letter to the GOP Candidates of Florida’s Second Congressional District
Dear xxxxx, On this 240th anniversary of our independence from Great Britain, when the self-evident truths of unalienable rights and the legitimate purpose of government were shouted to a skeptical… Read more »
The Democratic vs Republican Constitutions (Part II)
In my last post, Professor Randy Barnett described the Left’s conception of We The People as a collective, a single mass that expresses its sovereign will through congress. Here, first… Read more »
The Democratic vs. Republican Constitutions (Part I)
This squib began as a review of Professor Randy Barnett’s latest work, Our Republican Constitution. However, once I got into his explication of the two contradictory visions of the Constitution… Read more »
Proclamations are Not Laws
If any one man can be said to have intellectually armed the American colonists for rebellion, it was Algernon Sidney. So thorough was his impact that historians described his posthumously… Read more »
Keeping the Constitution: No Broken Windows Allowed
For those not old enough to know, New York City’s crime rate prior to the Mayor Rudy Giuliani era was so bad that a sci-fi movie, Escape From New York (1981)… Read more »
John Locke: On the Dissolution of Government (II)
In view of the increasing failures of national, state, local government from San Jose, CA to Sweden to protect their citizens from thugs, both secular and religious, where do innocent… Read more »
John Locke: On the Dissolution of Government
The spark for this squib is the failure of western governments to protect the persons and property of their citizens from politically or religiously motivated criminals. Among just a few… Read more »
Phyllis Schlafly vs. Article V
From the 1776 Maryland Declaration of Rights and the 1783 New Hampshire Bill of Rights we are reminded of the proper American attitude toward a government hostile to freedom: The… Read more »