In a letter to Jonathan Boucher dated July 9, 1771 George Washington wrote “I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.” George Washington was born in the Age of Reason, he was a part of a generation of that had access to more information in the […]
Constitution
Federal District Court Strikes Down Nation’s Last Explicit Ban on Carrying a Gun in Public
Roughly a year after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dist. of Columbia v. Heller ended Washington D.C.’s defacto gun ban in 2008, Tom Palmer, George Lyon, Ed Raymond & Amy McVey filed a lawsuit along with the Second Amendment Foundation in U.S. District Court claiming the District’s total ban on carrying firearms — open or […]
Chuck Schumer: ‘We have 3 branches of gov’t — A House, a Senate, a President’…
Wow, just wow: Idiot. Umm, Senator Schumer the three branches of Government specified by the Constitution are the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial not the Senate, House and President, you might want to review Articles 1, 2 and 3 of the Constitution. It’s no wonder we’re in the mess we’re in when so many […]
Pete Stark: The Federal Government can do most anything in this country
This video of Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA) has been making the rounds… it’s extraordinary, the woman questioning Rep. Stark lays out one the clearest examples of the Constitutional issues surrounding health care reform I’ve seen and Rep. Stark simply has no answer for them saying: I think that there are very few constitutional limits that […]
Frank LoBiondo: Constitutionally Clueless
A few weeks ago I criticized House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) for his apparent lack of an even basic understanding of the Constitution, this week it’s Representative Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey’s turn. Rep. LoBiondo, a Republican, confuses Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution with the 1st Amendment worse still when pressed […]
John Conyers: Idiot
Every member of Congress swears an oath to defend the United States Constitution “… against all enemies, foreign and domestic …” It’s kind of hard to do that if like House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) you don’t know what it says: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said the “good and […]
Are ObamaCare’s Individual Mandates Constitutional?
The answer would appear to be no, at least that the conclusion of an op-ed by penned David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey in last Saturday’s Washington Post: President Obama has called for a serious and reasoned debate about his plans to overhaul the health-care system. Any such debate must include the question […]
Holder Overrules DOJ Ruling Saying D.C. Vote Bill Is Unconstitutional
The Washington Post reports in today’s edition that Attorney General Eric Holder overruled lawyers in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel who ruled that the DC voting rights bill violates the Constitution: Justice Department lawyers concluded in an unpublished opinion earlier this year that the historic D.C. voting rights bill pending in Congress is […]
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid…
Be afraid, be very afraid… In all the furor over Barack Obama’s 2001 remarks on redistribution we missed a larger more frightening point. Take a look the transcript of Sen. Obama’s remarks (emphasis mine): If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I […]