The United States Supreme Court should recognize the standing of citizens to challenge the constitutionality of presidential wars. It is our last best hope to regain the republic. Over the past century, we have become dictatress of the world through a toxic combination of presidential usurpations and congressional derelictions. Our glory is no longer liberty,…
DetailsWhoever wins the presidency on Nov. 8, Congress should shut down the government, except for essential military or law enforcement personnel, on the first day after the 2017 inaugural unless and until the new president restores the republic by doing the following: Immediately end multi-trillion dollar presidential wars that have not been declared by Congress…
DetailsDemocratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton more threatens the Constitution’s separation of powers and celebration of liberty than does her vulgar Neanderthal opponent, Republican Party nominee Donald Trump. Justice Louis D. Brandeis explained in Olmstead v .United States (1928): “Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes…
DetailsI would have expected more adeptness from Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former intelligence superstar in the Soviet Union’s legendary KGB. His amateurish attempt to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election in the United States by tasking Russian hackers to steal 20,000 emails from the servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and…
DetailsAs Donald Trump might say, if the following modest proposals are not true, they should be true, and that is all that matters. 1. Restore the geocentric theory of the universe. For centuries since Copernicus, the heliocentric theory has been victorious and the planet earth has been a loser. My first act as president will…
DetailsU.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis explained in Olmstead v. United States (1928) that, “[The makers of our Constitution] conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.” That understanding has withered as the nation has entered an era of…
DetailsThe 2016 presidential race is unimportant. Whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton captures the White House, we will continue down the path of self-ruination driven by the multi-trillion dollar military-industrial-counterterrorism complex (MICC) that de facto rules the country with the acquiescence of both major parties encouraged by an uninformed and docile public. A Trump or…
DetailsProponents of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms are invoking constitutional due process to defeat legislation that would prohibit persons on the government’s terrorist watch or no-fly lists from purchasing firearms. Due process, however, was crucified on a national security cross long ago. Since 9/11, our multi-trillion dollar military-industrial-counterterrorism complex cultivated a…
DetailsNothing is truer than philosopher Samuel Johnson’s apercu 258 years ago in The Idler that, “Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.” Additional proof of Johnson’s wisdom was forthcoming last Friday. The Obama administration argued that since…
DetailsThere is a simple and costless strategy to diminish or slash the incidence of violent extremism in the United States: End government extremism, including the initiation of gratuitous wars not in self-defense that kill, injure or displace millions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant…
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