by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Aug. 21, 2023) — As a preface to what follows, noted American author and philosophical thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson once observed: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Stated otherwise, Emerson was contending that pursuit of consistency for the sake of […]
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7 ≠ 6
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jul. 11, 2023) — Mathematically, the number seven is unequal to the number six. Instead, it is one numeric unit more than the number six. For virtually all sentient humans, this is kindergarten arithmetic. However, for other mentally challenged outliers, it might as well be advanced tensor calculus. Cases in point: […]
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Of Loan Forgiveness and Psychoses
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jul. 1, 2023) — Sometimes, the lunatic depravity of Brandon and his apparatchiks collides with that bulwark against governmental overreach: the Constitution. Case in point: the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Biden v. Nebraska, declaring as unconstitutional his unilateral end-around-run on Congress and the Constitution to forgive perhaps as much […]
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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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Mainstreaming Deviancy at Seton Hall Law School
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Jul. 24, 2022) — The term “defining deviancy down” was originally coined in a 1993 essay by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat, but a classical “liberal” as opposed to today’s hyper-lunatic progressive iterations of that political genre. In summary, the concept posits that activities and behaviors once widely acknowledged to […]
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The Court Martial Option
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Aug. 23, 2021) — It starts. The former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, retired Colonel Richard Kemp, CBE, rejects the notion that the Goofball-in-Chief – formerly known as Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. – should be impeached as a result of the unmitigated and calamitous disaster he has single-handedly precipitated in […]
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USSC “Opinions Relating to Orders” and “Summer Order Lists”
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Jul. 6, 2021) — In addition to writing majority opinions, dissenting opinions and concurring opinions, Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court sometimes prepare and issue “Opinions Relating to Orders.” These opinions constitute the view of one or more of the Justices relating to the summary disposition of cases. The most common […]
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Natural Born Citizens and USSC Docket 20-1503
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (May 16, 2021) — When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for your humble servant to respond to comments in greater detail than allowed in the designated section of P&E posts, a longer post is required. Such is the case with this offering regarding assertions made by those who […]
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The Continuing Presidential Eligibility Debate
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Mar. 21, 2021) — Regarding this P&E post, it has attracted a growing number of comments, some insightful, others…, not so much. Your humble servant offers a few observations regarding the comments made by one reader. Commenter Becker asserts in his 3/20/21 remarks that, “[f]or the most part, those court decisions […]
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The Fight for the Filibuster
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Mar. 18, 2021) — Lord Acton said it best, back in 1887: “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The longer explanation of that observation is that as a person’s or organization’s power increases, their moral sense diminishes, sometimes incrementally, sometimes exponentially. In more colloquial terms, this explains the modern variation on […]
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Who Will Stand Up and Dance?
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (March 11, 2021) — Desperate times call for desperate measures, even bold, outside-the-box measures. And if ever the Republic needed such measures, it is now. Listen up: when the Goofball-in-Chief – with the nuclear launch codes never more that a reach away – cannot remember either the name of “that outfit […]
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Silhouettes in Courage
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Feb. 23, 2021) — Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court seems to have crept a little closer to becoming the newest member of the Deep State cabal now “governing” the Republic. Your humble servant has in the past noted that if Benjamin Franklin were alive today, he would be weeping at the […]
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The Citizen Trump Kabuki Theater Spasm
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Feb. 1, 2021) — What on Earth is going on? Art. 1, § 3, Cl. 6 of the Constitution relating to trials on impeachments states, in relevant part: “When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside.” There are three words contained in that sentence which […]
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“In the Same Words?”
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Jan. 22, 2021) — With the current censoring and banning of facts casually labeled by the leftist language police to be “misinformation” and “disinformation” subject to purging from the public square, one must ask: under that protocol, when will the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, […]
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The Texas v. Pennsylvania Denial of Jurisdiction
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Dec. 13, 2020) — OK, faithful P&E readers, you and a slew of other Americans may be asking themselves: what is going on in the wake of the Supreme Court’s declination to accept jurisdiction over the Texas v. Pennsylvania original action seeking leave to file a “Bill of Complaint” in the […]
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C’mon, Man!
“THE LOONS OF THE LEFT” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Sep. 25, 2020) — Soooo, faithful P&E readers, how bad do you think it could it get if – by lawful means or…, otherwise…, – Slow Joe Biden and Ineligible Kamala Harris win the general election? Better question: if the Biden-Harris team wins and the Senate […]
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Of Damocles, General Flynn and Intellectual Goo
“GO BACK TO SULLIVAN’S DUNGEON” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Sep. 2, 2020) — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has rendered its “per curiam” decision (i.e., no single judge wants to take credit/blame for it) in the continuing kabuki theater saga of the persecution of General Michael Flynn. General Flynn had sought […]
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The Kamala Devi Harris Eligibility Question, Part 2
“…OF PARENTS NOT OWING ALLEGIANCE TO ANY FOREIGN SOVEREIGNTY…” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Aug. 19, 2020) — [The following is continued from Part 1 of this series. “WKA” refers to the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark.] Congressman John Bingham and the 14th Amendment One additional aspect of the analysis of the 14th […]
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Is Tammy Duckworth a Natural Born Citizen?
“A REVISITING OF THE ISSUE” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Jul. 4, 2020) — Although it pains your faithful servant – grievously – to sully this post with a link to the electronic pages of The Washington (“Propaganda-Thrives-in-Darkness”) Post, once again the issue of presidential eligibility raises its head in connection with the potential candidacy of […]
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The OOOPM
“KEEP THE CASE OPEN” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Jun. 29, 2020) — “Make sure you look at things – have the right people on it.” These were the words of Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., – the nation’s Second Usurper-in-Chief (“SUC”) – as he met in the Oval Office with his co-conspirators on January 5, 2017. […]