by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 14, 2023) — On Monday a citizen who responded to a request for “input” from the non-profit media platform PragerU, a producer of short informational videos with the purpose of presenting an alternative viewpoint of current events, received a reply to his submission. The reader cannot discern from PragerU’s acknowledgement whether […]
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President Murray?
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Oct. 14, 2023) — He’s done it again. The most incompetent, corrupt and arrogant Commander-in-Cheat to have ever “occupied” – as in “likely illegitimately” – the Oval Office has stumbled while trying to climb three (3) stair steps to reach a speech podium. He stumbled not once, but twice in his […]
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Foolish Consistency, Little Minds and Hobgoblins
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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Will Brandon Do The Right Thing?
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jul. 4, 2023) — Today, most Americans celebrate the Fourth of July, the 247th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. From that day forward, a brave group of people began the process of severing the ties that had previously bound them to Great Britain and to eventually establish […]
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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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The LoC Kissing Cousin to the Heritage Guide
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (May 8, 2023) — Introduction In addition to the Heritage Foundation’s digital “Guide to the Constitution,” recently discussed by your humble servant here, a “kissing cousin” to that think tank’s explanation exists. Specifically, the U.S. Library of Congress (“LoC”) maintains a similar website purporting to “explain” what the Eligibility Clause of […]
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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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Hannity Asks Ramaswamy if He Launched Presidential Campaign for “Name Recognition”
by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 23, 2023) — In one of the last segments of his show Thursday night, “Hannity” host Sean Hannity spoke on camera with Vivek Ramaswamy, who declared his presidential candidacy on Tucker Carlson’s show Monday night. Hannity asked Ramaswamy if he were “running for name recognition” or “running to win,” pointing out […]
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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 […]
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The Hobbs Illegal Alien Kerfuffle
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Nov. 3, 2022) — The ongoing battle for who shall be the next governor in Arizona rages on between Trump-endorsed Kari Lake and Soros-supported Katie Hobbs. Recently, the Phoenix campaign office of Katie Hobbs was broken into and several items were stolen. Almost immediately, Hobbs and her campaign blamed Lake and […]
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Trump – DeSantis 2024
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Jul. 15, 2022) — As reported by The P&E, former advisor to President Trump, Peter Navarro, predicts – “with certainty” – that a 2024 presidential ticket of Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis will win the GOP nomination and go on to win the general election “by a country mile.” Navarro characterized […]
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Yes Virginia…, It’s Getting Worse
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Jun. 5, 2022) — Assuming that we are not already in the opening phases of a Second Civil War, we are dangerously nearing that point. Under the cataclysmic “administration” of categorically the worst, most corrupted “10% for the Big Guy” and addled “president” since the founding of the Republic, we are […]
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The Sad Images of a Humiliated Commander-in-Chief
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Apr. 6, 2022) — There comes a point in time when humiliation of a senior citizen becomes elder abuse. That point came this week, when the Second Usurper in Chief (“SUC”) appeared at a White House event to observe the 12-year marking of the passage of the comically-mislabeled “Affordable Care Act,” […]
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182.2%
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Mar. 9, 2022) — By the time you read this, the post’s title will be outdated: the number will be higher. The average price of gasoline on Jan. 6, 2021 was $2.25/gal. In the 14 months that Brand…, oops…, sorry…, the Goofball has occupied the Oval Office, the price has skyrocketed […]
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The Wisconsin Second Interim Report
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Mar. 6, 2022) — The “Second Interim Investigative Report On the Apparatus & Procedures of the Wisconsin Elections System” addressing the – let us be polite here… – “anomalies” discovered in a partial audit of the 2020 general election in that state has been delivered to the Wisconsin legislature. It is […]
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Are You Happy Now?
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Another Word That Ends in “Y”
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Feb. 17, 2022) — Hillary (“BleachBit, What BleachBit?”) Clinton has broken her silence on the recent John Durham revelations. Her pithy response, coughed up as a Twitter “tweet,” was straightforward: “Trump & Fox [News] are desperately spinning up a fake scandal to distract from his real ones. So it’s a day […]
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Of Hypocrisy, Demagogues and the Goofball
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Jan. 13, 2022) — The distilled hypocrisy and intellectual vacuity of the Goofball at 1600 was in full, flowery display on Jan. 6, 2022. The numbing vacuum of the marionette’s Statuary Hall speech was surpassed only by his anti-filibuster rant five days later in Atlanta. There, he delivered remarks – not […]
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The Floggings Will Continue….
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Jan. 6, 2022) — … until compliance is achieved. OK, that’s not altogether original with your humble servant, but it sets the stage for what follows. With each passing day, the Left’s pogrom against “unvaccinated” Americans takes on more sinister overtones. The Goofball at 1600 foolishly persists in mislabeling the global […]