What is the purpose of government? Where does our freedom come from? Who gives us our rights? There is a battle going on in America about these and other questions. It can get confusing especially if you rely on the politicians for guidance. The only way to tell the truth ...
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I recently found one of the best written articles on the web on the subject of Congress’ enumerated powers. It’s written in plain English so you don’t need to be a constitutional lawyer to understand it. It was written by Publius Huldah and can be found on her blog. I ...
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By Jordan Sekulow Joe Miller, the West Point and Yale Law School educated Republican nominee for US Senate in Alaska, calls himself a “constitutional conservative.” Michele Bachmann and Rand Paul do too. Sarah Palin brands the candidates she has endorsed with the label constitutional conservative. Like it or not, there ...
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By Nile Gardiner Telegraph.co.uk The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House. While the anti-establishment ...
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It’s hard being a conservative living in Illinois. Any political map will show my state as bright blue, liberal all the way. I don’t come from a large family, but they’re all dyed-in-the-wool liberals (or is Progressives the politically correct terminology these days?). I’m not really sure why they’re all ...
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Myth: The Constitution mandates the “separation of church and state.” Truth: Neither the phrase “separation of church and state,” nor anything like it, appears in the Constitution. Sixteen words in the Constitution address the relationship between government and religion. They are the first sixteen words of the First Amendment, which ...
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By Jim Pontillo While there is plenty of talk and rhetoric proclaiming all that is “Constitutional” or “Unconstitutional”, when we examine and recognize that document which more than any other represents the soul of America, we find that document is: The Declaration of Independence. With the simple preface, “We hold ...
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In 1776, America’s Founders gathered in Philadelphia to draft the Declaration of Independence, which dissolved the political ties of the American people with Great Britain. A new nation was born, free and independent, the United States of America. Eleven years later, after our forefathers defeated the British on the battlefield, ...
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Live “Politely” or Die
by Jeff Lewis on December 28, 2010
Continuing the Left’s assault on the constitution, it is now illegal in the “Live Free or Die” state of New Hampshire to repeatedly use “offensively coarse language” with the purpose to annoy. According to Eugene Volokh, “N.H. Stat. § 644–4 makes it a misdemeanor to, among other things, ‘make repeated ...
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