Constitution

Did we keep a republic?

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On September 17, 1787, the final day of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin, 81, shared with his fellow delegates his assessment of the new Constitution:

I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them: For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

The Exception, Not the Rule: Why the American Revolution Was an Anomaly

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Most revolutions begin with promises of freedom and end with new forms of power. The French Revolution produced the Terror and Napoleon. The Russian Revolution produced Lenin and Stalin. The Chinese Revolution produced Mao and mass famine. History’s pattern is clear: tearing down institutions is far easier than building stable replacements. The American Revolution was different. The Founders inherited functioning local governments, a tradition of self-rule, and a deep understanding of human nature. Rather than trusting power, they divided it. Rather than creating permanent revolution, they created a constitutional republic capable of reform without collapse. As America approaches its 250th birthday, the greatest lesson of 1776 may not be that revolution is glorious, but that the true miracle was what came after—the creation of a nation where change could occur without needing another revolution.

Islam Out!

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America at 250 years experienced epochal transitions from a Frontier to Agricultural to Industrial to (first-iteration) Post-Industrial society, from colonies to nation-state to world power and empire to super-power to global uber-super-power, economic crises, wars, and its terrible civil war of national definition in the War Between the States. Concurrently, each century had a paramount issue of national definition.

Unconstitutional: According To Democrats, Birthright Citizenship Was Created By A Footnote

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Unconstitutional: According To Democrats, Birthright Citizenship Was Created By A Footnote

This single footnote could not and did not create a “constitutional right” to birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants, a concept that was never intended by the 14th Amendment’s framers. The footnote has been rejected by constitutional scholars for decades.

Bending America Until it Breaks

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Bend a piece of metal; no matter how strong it is, keep bending it, and it will break. That is our current political system. And it is worldwide.

Europe is on some kind of autopilot. The people have literally no input into where they are going; it has become a very weird place. Victims of crime are being arrested while the perps are being let go. 90% of all new jobs are going to foreigners. Europe is getting closer every day to revolution.

A Conservative Audit of the Left’s Ruling Assumptions: The mirror they refuse to look into

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There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that does not know it is dishonest. It wraps itself in the language of compassion, hides its power hunger behind slogans of liberation, and mistakes its own cultural preferences for universal moral law. American progressivism, in its current form as embodied by the Democrat Party, has become a nearly perfect specimen of this condition.

Blueprint for Restoring America

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We can expect martial law, protests, demonstrations, panics (COVID, Global Warming), false flag operations, and Fake News (propaganda) to be possible threats to American democracy. The UN (plus WHO, NWO, WEF, Democrats, American Marxists, China, etc.) is a tool to impose tyranny and the dismantling of America.

Facts and truth have a conservative bias

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My good friend Jeffery¹, whether under that name, or his subsequently adopted screen names of Jethro Bodine or, currently, Elwood P Dowd, on William Teach’s fine site, The Pirate’s Cove, once made a claim, “The truth has a liberal bias,” sometimes expressed as “The facts have a liberal bias,” something I have seen elsewhere. It …

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The Death of the Republic

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A constitutional republic depends not only on honest elections, but on public confidence that elections are honest. When that trust disappears, every law, every court decision, and every elected official begins to lose legitimacy. The greatest threat to America’s future may not be violence or foreign enemies, but the slow erosion of faith in the electoral process itself. Without legal, transparent, and trustworthy elections, there can be no democracy—and no republic worth preserving.

SCOTUS’ Thomas Again the Lone Voice of Reason in a Government Overreach Case

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been seated a long time. Since 1991 – thirty-five years and counting. That entire time? He has been almost inarguably its most stringently Constitutional and conservative member.

I remember a lawyer friend about two decades ago comparing-and-contrasting Thomas and then-Court-mate and conservative icon – the late Antonin Scalia.

My friend pointed out that when Thomas and Scalia disagreed on a case? Thomas was correct – and Scalia incorrect.