Can Globalism Amend Our Constitution?
Globalism also means bending the United States Constitution into conformity with opinions of foreigners who pompously enunciate new laws and new human rights.
Continue reading →Surprising Assault On Democracy
Press and television channels have been filled for months about America’s responsibility to bring democracy to Iraq and other faraway nations that have no prior experience with self-government.
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Fads and Follies in Public Schools
The liberals have been going all out to protect the privacy of individuals against government efforts to ferret out al Qaeda sleeper cells that might be plotting to kill us. But there is one thing I don’t understand: why aren’t they just as solicitous to preserve the Fourth Amendment rights of U.S. citizens who attend public school?
Continue reading →Does The 4th Amendment Cover Schoolchildren?
Requiring schoolchildren to respond to nosy questionnaires has been a pervasive abuse of children in the classroom for more than two decades.
Continue reading →Congressional Agenda for 2003
The clouds of election contests are behind us and a new Republican majority in both Houses of Congress will gather in January.
Continue reading →Judicial Activism: the Biggest 2002 Election Issue
The election on November 5th is a very crucial election. The entire existence of our constitutional republic hangs in the balance. We have suffered a half century of activist/liberal court decisions that seriously threaten to undermine our Rule of Law.
Continue reading →The Biggest Election Issue In 2002
The coming election won’t decide whether or not we go to war, whether the Homeland Security bill will pass, whether seniors will get their prescription drugs paid for by the taxpayers, or whether Social Security will be privatized.
Continue reading →How To Pick Judges
The delays and wrangles about President George W. Bush’s scores of unconfirmed judicial nominees highlight the underlying issues between the two political parties. The Republicans want constitutionalists and the Democrats want judicial activists.
Continue reading →Copyrights and The Constitution
It seems self-evident that no individual should be allowed to own a law that all of us must obey.
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Time To Put Limits On Term Limits For Congress
It’s time to realize that the term limits movement itself has limits. It works well for the president, governors, state legislators, and even congressional chairmanships, where the trappings of power become irresistible.
Continue reading →How Did We Get A Federal Curriculum?
Behind frequent protestations by public officials about local control of the schools, a federal curriculum has been quietly imposed by law.
Continue reading →Where Do Politicians Go In Their Afterlife?
The pharmaceutical corporations, whose generous political spending gives them unrivaled clout with public officials, now have big plans to capitalize on public fears after 9/11.
Continue reading →Fast Track Is Unconstitutional
Where are all those strict-constructionist Republicans who’ve been complaining about activist judges who don’t respect the fact that the U.S. Constitution gives “all legislative powers” to the Congress? Don’t those Republicans realize that it is just as unconstitutional to transfer legislative powers to the executive branch?
Continue reading →Second Amendment Rights In Reality and In Court
If the hijackers had used guns for their crimes on 9/11, we would surely now be caught up in a frenzy of demands that this “lesson” calls for tough gun-control legislation.
Continue reading →Triad Response to Terrorism
As President Bush has warned us, this is a new kind of war. He is doing a good job of the military and diplomatic legs of the U.S. response to terrorism, but it’s up to citizens to insist that the response on the homeland front be effective and constitutional.
Continue reading →Humans vs. Fish at Klamath Falls
On July 12, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) offered Amendment 899 to release the river water to the farmers. That should have been a no-brainer — what could be easier than choosing between desperate farmers and a couple of ugly fish?
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