John Parillo Explains Federalist 58
Do Small States Have Too Much Power? In Madison’s time, the composition of the House caused that question. Today, it’s the Senate.
History
Democrats Jim-Crowed Blacks Out Of Congress
Because Republicans freed the slave, because Republicans continued, long after the Civil War, promoting civil rights for blacks and because Democrats continued to suppress blacks, all black voters & politicians were Republicans. Then, Democrats created Jim Crow laws to oppress black Americans.
The Human Benchrest: The Enduring Legacy of MAJ Ernie Vande Zande
Ernie Vande Zande was more than a national champion and record-setter; he was the rare competitor who made everyone around him better. Known as “the Human Benchrest,” the Army major and Camp Perry champion combined world-class precision with a quiet willingness to help any shooter who genuinely wanted to improve. His classic article Sights, Wind and Mirage still teaches competitors how to read conditions decades after it was written. Smallbore lost more than a legend when Ernie passed in 2018—it lost a mentor, a gentleman, and one of the finest ambassadors the sport has ever known.
John Parillo On: Federalist 56 and 57
John Parillo explores more on the unique nature of our Lower House, The People’s House
From Wounded Knee: A Lesson on Gun Control & the Second Amendment
American Indians in their winter camp at Wounded Knee, were murdered on Dec. 29, 1891, by federal agents and members of the 7th Cavalry who had come to confiscate their firearms “for their own safety and protection.”
John Parillo: Federalist 55 and Avoiding Tyranny
John Parillo discusses Federalist 55 and the question: Just how many Representatives are needed to avoid tyranny?
Billionaires made America great
They built this country. They built this country—those billionaires.
Now that Bernie Sanders and most American socialists are millionaires, the Lazybones senator from Vermont and his acolytes are demonizing billionaires.
Simple, Complex, Simple
Think about almost anything…The first thought is simple. Then, if you keep thinking and studying, layers of complexity with expanding horizons, exponential new factors, and conflicting facts appear.
The first thought is simple. Then, if you keep thinking and studying, layers of complexity with expanding horizons, exponential new factors, and conflicting facts appear. Yet, after more thought and study, the holistic conclusion is simple. A few words very loaded with meaning suffice.
America’s Media are Suffering from a Crisis of Competence
I am not optimistic about today’s independent media. Most of its practitioners are untrained amateurs who lack the basic reportorial skills to gather accurate, fair, and balanced information.
Ancient Aliens, Modern Myths, and the Gospel of Space Miners
Ancient alien theory didn’t emerge from hard evidence—it was stitched together by imaginative authors like Erich von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin, who took fragments of ancient texts, ignored actual linguistic scholarship, and filled the gaps with cosmic fan fiction. What followed was not discovery, but duplication—a self-reinforcing echo chamber amplified by media like Ancient Aliens, where speculation is recycled until it feels like fact. The result is a modern mythology dressed in the language of science, asking us to believe that early humans couldn’t stack stones without extraterrestrial supervision, while simultaneously expecting us to reject the idea of a Creator as “unscientific.” It’s not that the evidence demands aliens—it’s that the narrative refuses God, and will accept almost anything else.
Trump In China, Dems Busy Creating Chaos
The“Get Real” host, George, started this podcast by asking Steve about Virginia’s recent gerrymandering, and Democrats subsequent plans to fire all seven members of the Virginia Supreme Court in order to pack it with Leftist activists who will ignore the Virginia Constitution. Since Democrats can’t win through good policies and debate, they must rig the election system and …
John Parillo: On Federalist 51
In this episode, John Parillo discusses how James Madison a modern day Aristotle balanced powers of the three branches of the new government.
John Parillo on: Federalist 49 and 50
John Parillo explains Federalist 49 & 50; Remedies to Constitutional Violations, Non-Partisan Commissions and resolving differences.
Thoughts on the Racial and Ethnic Transformation of America
Writing about race and the rapidly shifting racial complexion and composition of America is a dangerous exercise. No matter how you discuss it or describe it, if you are white, you are almost certain to be called a racist by easily triggered leftists who prefer that you keep silent
John Parillo on: Federalist 46 to 48
On Resisting the Federal Government and the Separation of Powers
Cultural Rewards
During WWII the upper echelon German leaders’ culture was fight to the death embracing even suicide…as Hitler did. The troops, however, were not fatalistic inasmuch as when faced with obvious over-powering odds they surrendered. The Japanese had a different culture: Military officers and their soldiers believed honorable death, including Hara‑kiri, was preferrable to capitulation. Their Emperor was slightly more realistic, calling it quits after experiencing the devastation of nuclear bombs.
John Parillo on Federalist 44 and 45
John Parillo walks us through Federalist 44 and 45 and the Limits of State’s Sovereignty and the Preservation of State’s Rights
John Parillo on Federalist 42 and 43
John Parillo On the Prohibition of the Importation of Slaves, Definition of Citizenship, and the Process of Amendments
Parillo on Federalist 40 and 41
On the Legitimacy of the New Constitution, and the Very Limited Role of Government
John Parillo: Federalist 38 and 39
In Federalist 38 Madison discusses the process by which the new proposed constitution was written and how that process was superior to anything that had been attempted before in history.