God, Guns, and Government: Why Liberty Was Never Meant to Be Licensed

There’s an old truth that modern America keeps trying to forget: rights don’t come from Washington—they come from God. The Constitution doesn’t give you a right to bear arms. It merely recognizes a divine truth that predates every law ever written—man has a God-given right to defend his life, his family, and his freedom. Government’s job is simple: protect that right. Not “regulate” it into irrelevance.

The President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund argued that Louisiana voters, exercising their free choices, were not voting correctly

In 1986, Robert Cortez “Bobby” Scott, then a state Senator in Virginia, ran for election to the Commonwealth’s First Congressional District seat against incumbent Representative Herb Bateman (R-VA), losing in a landslide, 56% to 44%. In the redistricting which followed the 1990 Census, the state legislature, at the direction of the federal Department of Justice, …

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Civil Unrest – The Constitution, the Military, and the Limits of Domestic Power

In recent remarks, the idea of using American cities as “training grounds” for active-duty military forces was floated. While I firmly back the President’s resolve to secure this nation, we must also be clear-eyed: there are limits that every officer—whether O-1 or O-10—must know. Crossing them is not just a political issue, but a constitutional one.