Does the Tea Party seek to return America to its principles? | read this item
I read an article from Reuters this morning that is either a sincere attempt to present an accurate description of the Tea Party movement or a very sophisticated piece of propaganda on behalf of the elite subversives threatened by its assertion of the sovereignty of the people. If the Tea Party movement is simply [...]
The Israeli government’s announcement of its approval for a long planned expansion of a Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem has caused quite a stir. It went forward during a visit of U.S. Vice-President Biden intended, among other things, to focus attention on U.S. Israeli solidarity in against Iran’s push for nuclear weapons capability. Was [...]
Tripping in Jerusalem: The Biden-Israel flap | read this item
[I was going to write a post about the diplomatic flare-up that has presently brought U.S. Israeli relations to their lowest ebb in many years. Then I received an email from my friend Allan Gerson in which he passed along an article in which he says just about everything I would have wanted to [...]
Using the census process to corrode our rights? | read this item
The American Community Survey is being sent out by the U.S. Census Bureau “to a sample of some 3 million U.S. households in addition to the 2010 Census.” “The U.S. Census website for the American Community Survey warns that under Title 13 of the U.S. Code, Section 221, anyone who refuses to answer the [...]
Why GOP leadership doesn’t ring true | read this item
On the pages of this blog I have repeatedly analyzed and warned against the naïve notion that simply voting for candidates handpicked by the failed leadership of the GOP will somehow help to revive the prospects of America’s constitutional liberty. The news today offers two apt illustrations of the reason why. The Obama [...]
In Mexico, drug gangsters brutally murder an American consular officer and his wife, leaving their orphaned child crying in terror in the back seat of the vehicle in which they died. In Israel, Vice-President Biden loses face and his diplomatic aplomb as an ill-timed Israeli announcement of new construction in a Jewish neighborhood in [...]
Health takeover end game confirms real U.S. crisis | read this item
Eventually, the truth will out. For years people like me have emphasized the fact that the true crisis America faces today has to do with the abandonment of the moral premises on which the nation is founded. What looks like a welter of different issues (a financial meltdown, the cost of health care, [...]
On Wednesday evening I received an email from a friend that sent along a brief news story out of Kentucky reporting Bill Johnson’s withdrawal from the Republican Primary race for the U.S. Senate. My friend was just putting the finishing touches on a direct mail piece for Bill’s campaign that would have included a note [...]
Outline for a Principled Voter’s Guide | read this item
As I said in the article published last Friday (Feb. 26) at WND.com, because there are three areas of principle vital to the survival of America’s constitutional republic, there are three headings under which the neglect or violation of principle on any given issue gives rise to fatal flaws in candidates and public officials: Constitutionalism, [...]
