Federalist 68: Selecting the President
Federalist 68 describes the Founders’ concerns over choosing our Presidents and the dangers of doing so by “popular vote.”
Government
My War Against Communism: Was it all for Naught?
When I was in the U.S. Army in the 1960s, one of the most persistent exhortations from my superiors was: “The only good communist is a dead communist.”
Gov Overreach; Since 1958, the U.S. Has Kept Folks in Rural WV ‘Quiet’—At the Cost of Their Safety
The National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ), a sprawling 13,000-square-mile territory carved out over parts of West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland, was born in the Cold War era.
Federalist 67; The Presidency
Hamilton turns here, and for the next eleven Federalist Papers, to the subject of the Presidency, an important topic, today more than ever.
Retribution And Justice For Team Obama: What Would The Founders Think About How The Stewards Of Our Government Have Acted In The 21st Century?
When The People Act To Clean Up The Swamp And The Swamp Fights Back
The Left’s Cognitive Dissonance on Taxes and Regulations
There are only a vanishingly few instances where Big Government advocates are honest about the awful policies upon which they insist. Cigarettes are one such instance.
Republic or Empire? America at the Crossroads
History teaches us that republics do not last forever. They follow a cycle as old as Babylon and as familiar as Rome: born in virtue, expanded in strength, corrupted by power, and eventually replaced by empire.
Is Idiotic Net Neutrality FINALLY Dead in DC?
Way back when, Big Tech was just beginning to reorder its strategy of total conquest. In DC, that meant massively increasing their lobbying budgets.
By Hoping Trump Fails, Democrats are in Fact Hoping the Country Fails
As history has shown, the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, which ran from 1953 to 1961, marked a pivotal era in American history. As the nation emerged from the darkness of World War II and faced the escalating challenges of the Cold War, Eisenhower’s policies reflected a prudent balance between progressive innovation and traditional values.
Virginia: Where the Speed Limit Is 55, but the Toll Limit Is Whatever We Feel Like
Welcome to Virginia’s I-66 Express Lanes—America’s first state-sanctioned, algorithm-driven wallet vacuum. You thought price gouging was illegal? Ha! Not if you slap a “traffic congestion management” label on it and let a computer do the dirty work.
Men Without Chests
We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
Black Lives Matter, Just Not to Democrat Politicians: Part VII, (Conclusion, Life Is What Matters)
Although forcible servitude is now allegedly forbidden, its place has been taken by the promise of subsistence level (barely) support, in exchange for pulling the Democrat lever at the voting booth
John Parillo Expounds Upon Federalist 63
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood;
The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 11
Nobody understood how to navigate the endless battle to control what and how we think better than COL James N. “Nick” Rowe, who spent five years as a prisoner of the Viet Cong.
Black Lives Matter, Just Not to Democrat Politicians: Part VI, (Militant Feminism)
Margaret Sanger died in 1966, but her legacy did not die with her. If anything it metastasized like the moral cancer it is. It did so with the help of Gloria Steinem, 32 years old and already a Women’s activist the day Sanger died.
Timed Delivery
It could be argued that presidential speechwriters are just another group of Washington D.C. bureaucrats on the federal payroll. Presidents deliver hundreds of speeches and rely on speechwriters to craft their remarks with strategic input that reflects their voice and policy agenda.
Gettysburg, PA
As our rental car eased into Gettysburg, past the brick-and-plank storefronts selling tourist trinkets, women’s fashion, artisan tacos, funnel cakes, and free CBD samples, my imagination was running amok.
Black Lives Matter, Just Not to Democrat Politicians: Part V, (Eugenics, Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger)
Margaret Sanger and eugenics.
The Risk/Reward Calculus for Traitors Has Changed
While true justice for the Russia collusion hoax may be elusive, President Trump’s staff is providing something equally as important – deterrence.