by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 1, 2024) — Last Tuesday, Independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. declared he had chosen attorney and philanthropist Nicole Shanahan, 38, as his vice-presidential running-mate. Both are former Democrats, with Kennedy in October changing his party affiliation to “Independent” in what he said was a “very painful” decision he […]
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Reason Prevails; Rationalization Fails
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Mar. 4, 2024) — Thank you…, thank you…, yes, your humble servant was right. The Colorado Supreme Court’s dumb decision upholding the Colorado Secretary of State’s determination to exclude President Trump from the primary ballot was stupid when rendered, as discussed here, and has now been reversed – ahem…, 9-zip – […]
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The Maine Trump Decision: Atrocious
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Dec. 29, 2023) — Well, faithful P&E readers, here we go again. Yesterday, on Dec. 28, 2023, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows – a registered Democrat and perhaps one of the most anti-President Trump, pro-progressive and biased governmental officials in the nation – issued her 34-page “decision” determining that Mr. […]
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The Insidious Mile-High Frankenstein Brain…, Burp
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Dec. 22, 2023) — INTRODUCTION Well, faithful P&E readers, buckle up: the Colorado Supreme Court, consisting of seven judges – all appointed by Democrat Colorado governors – has issued an opinion in a case captioned Anderson v. Griswold. The decision purports to bar President Trump from the Colorado primary ballot, allegedly […]
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In Defense of Speaker Johnson’s Amicus Effort
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Oct. 27, 2023) — Newly-installed Speaker of the House Michael Johnson (R. LA) has recently been vilified because of his role in the 2020 effort by the State of Texas to challenge in the Supreme Court the legitimacy of the 2020 general election. That still-questionable election – keep reading – resulted […]
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In Defense of Jonathan Turley
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Sep. 9, 2023) — For anyone paying even passing attention, the name “Jonathan Turley” will be recognized as one of the few law professors remaining in academia willing publicly to defend the First Amendment, the freedom of speech and the freedom of expression it guarantees…, or at least at one time […]
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A Deeper Dive Into the nbC Pond
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jun. 26, 2023) — Introduction Faithful P&E readers, two events precipitate this offering, which is intended to examine more closely one of the favorite “authorities” normally cited by the Left in its quest to redefine the term “natural born Citizen” as included by the Founders in Art. 2, § 1, Cl. […]
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A Modest Proposal 4.0
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Open Letter to Donald Trump and Ronald DeSantis
May 25, 2023 Dear Messrs. Trump and DeSantis – Your humble servant has for many years offered comments here at The P&E on various issues, most relating to the “natural born Citizen” presidential eligibility question (no, I am not a “birther” or a “conspiracy theorist,” but instead a “constitutionalist”), as well as on a wide […]
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Information, Misinformation, Ipse Dixit and Censorship
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Apr. 22, 2023) — Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley recently posted an article pointing out the draconian censorship path upon which Great Britain is descending. It is a short, but ominous read. The censorship of free speech in England is plumbing new depths of lunacy and malevolence…, and yet Hillary (“BleachBit? […]
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Revisiting the POPE Option
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Apr. 18, 2023) — A few weeks ago, your humble servant offered an article suggesting a way of getting the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) presidential eligibility issue under Art. 2, § 1, Cl. 5 of the Constitution before the U.S. Supreme Court. As readers of The P&E well know, virtually all […]
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The Banana Yellow Indictment of President Trump
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Apr. 5, 2023) — Now that Manhattan Banana Republic District Attorney Alvin (“No Neck”) Bragg has made good on his campaign pledge to arrest President Trump as a private citizen (for the time being), the full, 3-D impaired malevolence of his psyche emerges. By leveraging various misdemeanor acts of “falsifying business […]
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The Goebbels Corollary
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Mar. 27, 2023) — Introduction Paraphrasing Third Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: “If you are going to tell a lie, make it a big one, as no one will believe a small one, and repeat it over and over, because eventually people will come to accept it as the truth.” […]
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Hypocrisy South of Brandon’s Porous Border
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Mar. 10, 2023) — Underscoring why any sentient and rational American – thereby excluding, of course, most registered Democrats – would avoid travel to the Third World country directly south of us, look no further than the recent statement of its president, one Andrés Manuel López Obrador, threatening GOP politicians. Comically […]
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Another Modest Proposal
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jan. 27, 2023) — In years past, your humble servant has on occasion penned a couple of “modest proposals,” here and here. The “modest proposal” mechanism, of course, was originated by British author and satirist Jonathan (“Gulliver’s Travels”) Swift as a pointed satirical answer to the impoverished Irish: sell their children […]
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Intellectual Goo From The Trojans
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jan. 15, 2023) — Once again, the lunatic virtue signaling of academia oozes out on the normal world. Caution should be exercised, as it is slippery. This time, it originates at the University of Southern California (“USC”) and the rebranded “USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck Practicum Education Department” within the “USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck […]
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Arrests Plummet, Crime Skyrockets …, and Brandon Vacations
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Dec. 29, 2022) — Your surveillance monitors at the Department of “Justice” [sic] have just released a report celebrating the fact that arrests for federal crimes have dropped to the lowest level in two decades…, while violent urban crime statistics break all skyrocketing records. As noted here, President Trump’s “Operation Legend,” […]
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The Legions of Mentally Deficient Voters
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Dec. 26, 2022) — Let us assume, for two nanoseconds, that there was even the remote chance that the 2022 election and ballot-counting process throughout the nation – especially in the Pennsylvania Senate contest (Oz v. Fetterman), the Georgia Senate contest (Walker v. Warnock); the Arizona Governor’s race (Lake v. Hobbs) […]
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Additional Responses to More nbC Comments
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Dec. 6, 2022) — True to form, the lively discussions about what the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) clause in the Constitution means; where it originated; and why it remains important continue. Recent comments here, here and here have generated much back and forth discussion between the two opposing viewpoints on these […]
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A Tandem Impeachment?
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Nov. 22, 2022) — From time to time, faithful readers of The P&E – and even the occasional liberal or Democrat – offer comments to your humble servant’s offerings. On occasion, a comment will pique your servant’s interest and result in another post. Such is the case now. In this recent […]