The wisdom of the Founding Fathers was, in my view, absolutely astonishing. They  foresaw many potential problems while setting up our Government and did everything they could to avoid them, and warn us about them. In the Preamble to The Bill of Rights, which many people are no longer taught of the existence of, they gave us their reasons for the ten Amendments making up the Bill of Rights, along with a warning. Here it is in its entirety: The Preamble to The Bill of Rights Congress of the...Read Full Story

In my last post, I warned of the three headed monster that is to be Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. These are the three people who will be running this country unchecked if Barack Obama is elected. As noted here , Obama would have you believe he is a middle of the road uniter. His past associations (like sitting on one of racist pastor Jeremiah Wright's church pews for 20 years) indicate that he is not. In the previous post, I also mentioned a number of things you can expect from...Read Full Story

Supreme Court The two cases which were chosen for this paper are McDonald vs. Chicago and Heller vs. District of Columbia and both redefined the legal understanding of the Second Amendment and while they both were mostly right there are aspects which were either ignored or misconstrued in all likelihood due to political pressure. In the majority opinion on the Heller case for example the justices flat out contradicted themselves by explaining the historical meaning and basis for the...Read Full Story

Four years ago, the media shined a much needed light on Republicans who were tied to criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff.  Many of those Republicans were rightly bounced out of office that election year because they had chosen an unethical path and violated the public trust.  Today, however, we don't seem to hear about some of the elected officials -- Dodd, Frank, et al -- who should be hog tied to the criminals involved in the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Heck, corporate executives...Read Full Story

I have friends of many stripes who fall all along the political spectrum and my attempts to engage them often meet with varied levels of success. In my ongoing quest to understand the liberal mind (and more effectively engage my liberal friends) I have made many attempts to quantify and qualify its thought process. Today, on a particularly long commute, I had an epiphany and the "equation" above just came to me. I call it, the theory of liberal relativity. To put simply what the formula...Read Full Story