The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) intended to constrain Iran’s nuclear ambitions in exchange for a relaxation of sanctions is a “treaty” under Article II, section 2, clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution. President Barack Obama has mischaracterized the JCPOA as an “executive agreement” to avoid the necessity of Senate approval by a two-thirds…
DetailsPresident George Washington recognized in his maiden State of the Union Message that a Republic whose glory is liberty would degenerate into tyranny whose glory is domination and force without a wise and virtuous citizenry. He elaborated: “To the security of a free constitution, [knowledge] contributes in various ways–by convincing those who are intrusted with…
DetailsLet Rand Paul be Rand Paul. A certain trumpet for a liberty-centered constitutional universe. Endless, pointless, exorbitant wars fueled by the military-industrial complex must cease. Dragnet spying on loyal American citizens must end. The manipulation or suffocation of free markets by government or special interests must stop. The bail-out state must die. Rand Paul must…
DetailsPresidents of the United States are chronically and routinely guilty of infinite stupidity in national security matters. They squander trillions of dollars and sacrifice the lives of selfless American soldiers on fool’s errands that create threats that would not otherwise be awakened by slaughtering foreigners without the justification of self-defense. While the examples are endless,…
DetailsChronicling President Obama’s constitutional usurpations is like memorializing the sins of the Borgia Popes. They benumb by repetition. The latest is Mr. Obama’s imminent issuance of an executive order usurping congressional authority to enact labor laws. Typical have been laws regulating minimum wages, maximum hours, non-discrimination, employee benefits, plant closings, etc. The presidential-legislative order would…
DetailsThe greatest balance sheet assets of al Qaeda and ISIS are what Vladimir Lenin called “useful idiots”, i.e., President Barack Obama and neocons like Republican Sens. John McCain Of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina who inflate the danger of international terrorism manifold in the service of the military-industrial-counterterrorism complex. These useful idiots provide…
DetailsThe search for truth without ulterior motives is the secret of happiness. It entails an unstarry-eyed understanding and appraisal of yourself and the world uninfluenced by a desire for self-aggrandizement in any of its moods or tenses. It is a learned or acquired pleasure. It is not in the DNA, in contrast to the childish…
DetailsOpportunism, thy name is Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Take their vascillation or irresolution on the Confederate flag, about which more anon. Seven score and four years ago, the Confederate States of America (including Arkansas) sought to bring forth a new nation conceived in moral sin and dedicated to the proposition that blacks possessed no…
DetailsThe flag of the Confederate States of America is a badge and incident of slavery. Congress should prohibit flying the flag on state capitol grounds pursuant to its enforcement powers under the 13th Amendment, i.e., the Badge and Incident of Slavery Act of 2015. There would be no First Amendment obstacle to congressional action because…
DetailsSen. Rand Paul is spot on. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was created and is fueled by Mr. Paul’s lobotomized neoconservative rivals. In other words, to paraphrase Walt Kelly’s Pogo about the Vietnam War, Mr. Paul’s foreign policy detractors have met the enemy, and they are them! With the predictability of the…
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