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The Tyranny of Good Intentions In AD 2000 Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton published “The Tyranny of Good Intentions” about How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice . “What are we to do if those chasing devils decide to chase after us.” Sir Thomas More The Tyranny of Good Intentions, Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton renew their valiant campaign to reclaim that which is rightly ours–liberty protected by the rule of law. They show how crusading legislators and unfair prosecutors are remaking American law into a weapon wielded...

The Supreme Court and the Constitution Some background may help you understand why a radio show aired before I was born caused me to share it with folks who may have no interest. I amuse myself by listening to the radio shows we listened to before television. I discovered that many of the old radio shows I enjoyed were available on the Internet. Shows like The Shadow, Inner Sanctum, Mysterious Traveler, and many more. Additional enjoyment came from discovering the radio shows that I didn’t know about or wasn’t interested in. This is from a 1936 America Town Meeting on...

Just a Question Considering the varied opinions on Critical Race Theory, systemic racism, and the Constitution’s role in slavery begs an answer to my question.

President Biden, Put Up THAT Wall.President Biden gave this oath.I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."When you take an oath, you hold your soul in your hands and if you break that oath, you open up your fingers and your soul runs through them and is lost." Sir Thomas More

The Media, Then and Now I realized several decades ago that newspapers and the broadcast media were no longer reliable sources for accurate reporting of events. That caused me to question whether they were ever accurate. As a child I remember the newspaper, the Journal, it held no interest to me but several friends earned money delivering it daily. We had a single radio station. On Sundays, my father would get the Sunday edition of the New York Times, the epitome of news reporting. The Grey Lady, “All The News That’s Fit to Print”, is that still on their front...

Just curious!

Word SearchWithout explaining Democracy, Socialism, or Communism I summarize the Progressive agenda this way : The Progressive Movement advocates allowing the government to enact legislation and rules that the Constitution disallows.

This National Debt Thing I was around when we spoke of a billion dollars then hundreds of billions of dollars and on occasion the word trillion popped up. Later in life the word trillion came up more often and at an increasing rate. I now lived long enough to see the word trillion come into vogue. In each case the word regarded the Public Debt or National Debt. This question occurred to me the other day in a discussion about the 16th amendment; how would taxation be today if we had not passed the 16th Amendment. Prior to the 16th...

Scene: A donkey tied to a tree One night a ghost cut the rope and freed the donkey. The donkey went and destroyed the crops in an adjacent farmer's land. Infuriated, the farmer's wife shot the donkey and killed it. The donkey's owner was devastated at the loss. In reply, he shot dead the farmer's wife. Angered by his wife's death, the farmer took a sickle and killed the donkey's owner. The wife of the donkey's owner got so angry that she and her sons set the farmer's house on fire. The farmer, looking at his house turned into ashes,...

Minimum wage laws appear to me to be unconstitutional because I do not find the legislative power in the constitution for Congress to legislation wages. Setting that concern aside something about minimum wage laws puzzles me. Some workers increased their value to the job market to earn more than the min wage. An example of what puzzles me is a person who worked hard and increased their job skills is now earning $15/hour. This person has several people working for him who is doing the job he used to do when he was paid min wage. He likely is working...

It is my understanding that there are hundreds if not thousands of people who signed affidavits swearing they observed election irregularities.It is also my understanding that various Judges have determined that an investigation of voting irregularities is not warranted.I also understand that an "affidavit" is testimony taken under oath.Hence my question, how many will be charged with perjury for lying in the affidavits?

Do liberals agree with the motives for media replacing news with their political narrative? Do liberals know the media doesn’t tell them everything?I think their common sense might step in front of their intellect at some point? I wonder when that will happen?

I’d like to share my observation that a common thread exists amongst the various left-leaning political groups. I'm seeking related opinions.Liberalism, Social Democracy, Socialism, and the Progressive Agenda all have this in common; each requires the government to legislate in areas where Congress is NOTconstitutionally empowered to legislate. The left doesn’t set about this by proposing amendments to the Constitution; they set about this by using courts to circumvent the Constitution.

Just a question for Democrat voters. To all those who serve the progressive agenda or whatever you call that declares free from the government. It is becoming difficult to keep up with all that you feel entitled to so I have a suggestion that will add clarity. Create a list of what you expect the citizens to provide for their welfare. Your well-meaning agenda can then concentrate on all the things the citizens cannot do for themselves. Neither your agenda nor the citizen will have to provide the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness already provided by...

I have been reading and hearing of the left's desire for Joe Biden to overturn things President Trump did once he is president. That reminded me of the numerous declarations that President Trump accomplished nothing. It occurred to me that to list things for President Biden to undo that same list would be a list of President’s Trump accomplishments. I have a list of President Trump’s accomplishments that the New York Times fact-checked but it is only for the first 20 months.

There are two schools of thought for voters driving this election; voters who believe America is good and voters who believe America is bad.

Believe it or not, I have friends that are Democrats Democrats, Now I know you don't like President Trump. That’s a given, so let's move on from that. How about the division of America. Do you blame Trump for that? How about when None of the Democrats showed up for his inauguration? Don't you think that started the division? He hadn't even been president yet, and except for Clinton and Obama, not one Democrat showed up. Is that when Trump divided America? Can you imagine if the Republicans didn't show up for Obama's inauguration because they lost? Can you even...

Democrats vs. Republicans This thought occurred to me after a discussion with a liberal who hates the Republican Party. This election is not the usual Democrat candidate vs. the Republican candidate. This election is between the Democrat candidate and Donald J. Trump. The main reason anyone on the left would vote for Vice-President Joe Biden is that he is not a Republican. However, a vote for President Trump is not a vote for the Republican Party.

The NEWS or the NARRATIVE? I am suspicious of the narrative when the media presents the narrative as news. Here is the reality. The media introduces and advances the lie whilst the same media bury the truth. A news report of a recent event includes intelligence information. Reporting the facts accurately presents the news as truth. Biased reporting is narrative. A narrative may be the lie or the truth. If the news is not available to support the narrative then the narrative is the lie. The opposite of news include concealment, history, ignorance, question, silence, suppression, truth, quiet, speech and...

Will President Trump Leave? I am seeing more of this sort of headline;Hysteria Over Trump Not Accepting Election Results My mind immediately goes back to the 2016 presidential debates when the same question was in vogue. At the time it had not occurred to ask Hillary Clinton if she was American enough to accept the outcome of the election because no one envisioned Donald Trump winning. Thinking about this in a satirical manner coupled with facts became interesting. I propose this story for entertainment but it's closer to reality than you may think.The players : President Donald J. Trump President-Elect...