“NONSENSE ELEVATED TO AN ART FORM” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Apr. 9, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following is the fourth and final installment of legal scholar Joseph DeMaio’s detailed analysis of the January 11, 2016 Congressional Research Service (CRS) memo authored by legislative attorney Jack Maskell attempting to make an “end-around run” to Article […]
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Of Neologisms, End-Around Runs and Gorillas: The Congressional Research Service 2016 Report on Presidential Eligibility, Part III
“A FALSE IMPRESSION” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Apr. 7, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following is a continuation of an in-depth analysis by legal scholar Joseph DeMaio of the January 11, 2016 Congressional Research Service (CRS) memo as it addresses, or fails by omission to address, the meaning and intent of the term “natural born […]
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Of Neologisms, End-Around Runs and Gorillas: The Congressional Research Service 2016 Report on Presidential Eligibility, Part II
“DANGEROUS NONSENSE” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Apr. 4, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following is a continuation of an in-depth analysis of the meaning of the “natural born Citizen” requirement present in Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution and how a series of Congressional Research Service (CRS) memos dating back to […]
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Of Neologisms, End-Around Runs and Gorillas: The Congressional Research Service 2016 Report on Presidential Eligibility
Since many “NOT WHAT THE FOUNDERS INTENDED” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Apr. 2, 2016) — Introduction With eerily increasing regularity, the Congressional Research Service (“CRS”) has produced yet another in its continuing periodic series of “products” (i.e., research memoranda and reports) calculated to convince the Congress, the judiciary, the U.S. electorate and the world at […]
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Turbocharged Hypocrisy
WHY NOW? by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Jan. 20, 2016) — There exists in the world garden-variety hypocrisy. This form of the mental disorder is typically seen in the everyday comments and claims of liberals, progressives, most college “professors,” virtually all non-Fox media outlets and, of course, the vast majority of registered Democrats. Then there is […]
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The More Things Change…
“MACHIAVELLI RULES” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Jan. 2, 2016) — Introduction As the new year begins, one is tempted to observe (with a tip of the cap to Alphonse Karr) that “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” The continually-metastasizing cascade of misinformation and defalcations from the regime headquartered at 1600 […]
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Kerchner, Apuzzo Discuss Meaning and Significance of “natural born Citizen” pb
“THE CONSTITUTION CREATED OUR GOVERNMENT” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 2, 2015) — On Tuesday evening, CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret.) and Atty. Mario Apuzzo were guests on “The Wake-Up Mission Show” regularly hosted by former California gubernatorial candidate Chelene Nightingale and Randy Dees. On the morning of January 20, 2009, Apuzzo filed a lawsuit, […]
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Is No One Questioning Constitutional Eligibility?
“NO PERSON, EXCEPT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN…” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 8, 2015) — On Saturday afternoon, author Jack Cashill posted a Republican presidential poll asking readers to name their top three candidates among a field of 17 who have declared they are seeking the office for 2016. The survey can be found here. When […]
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Of Words and the Fomenting of Revolutions
“WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS IT BECOMES NECESSARY….” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2015 (Jul. 4, 2015) — On this July 4, 2015, some 240 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed, people should stop and consider what has happened to this once-great nation, the “shining city on the hill,” since 2012. We are […]
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Of Foreign Influence and Eligibility
SHOULD HILLARY CLINTON BE DISQUALIFIED FROM SEEKING THE PRESIDENCY? by Joseph DeMaio, ©2015 (May 28, 2015) — By now – unless you have been living under a rock or watching nothing but NBC and MSNBC… roughly equivalent activities – you are aware that William (“it-depends-on-what-‘is’-is”) Clinton and his spouse, Hillary (“what-difference-now-does-it-make?”) Clinton have funneled millions of […]
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The Post & Email Contacts The Dallas Morning News About Challenges to Article II Eligibility
CRUZ’S ELIGIBILITY QUESTIONED, BUT OBAMA’S, DESPITE FORGERIES OF GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS, HAS NOT by Sharon Rondeau (May 24, 2015) — An article in The Dallas Morning News dated Saturday, May 23, 2015 and updated on Sunday morning reported that “Not surprisingly, the GOP presidential debates announced last week will be open only to candidates who can […]
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Cruz Campaign Office Acknowledges Eligibility Letter
“A DOUBLE ALLEGIANCE” by Sharon Rondeau (May 20, 2015) — On Monday, April 13, 2015, The Post & Email sent a letter by certified mail to the campaign headquarters of Sen. Ted Cruz in Houston, TX. On Wednesday, May 20, 2015, The Post & Email received confirmation that our letter was, in fact, accepted and […]
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Of Occam’s Razor and Natural Born Citizens, Part II (Conclusion)
“OF SEMINAL IMPORTANCE TO THE LEADERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2015 (May 14, 2015) — [Editor’s Note: The following is the conclusion to the discussion begun in Part 1 of this series.] PARLEZ-VOUS ANGLAIS? One of the more novel yet disingenuous contrivances used in the 2011 CRS Report in the attempt to […]
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Of Occam’s Razor and Natural Born Citizens, Part 1
“THE MOST STRINGENT AND IMPENETRABLE BARRIERS” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2015 (May 12, 2015) — In science and mathematics as well as in other disciplines, including political discourse, there is a principle known as Occam’s razor. Reduced to its essence, it articulates the proposition that the simplest answer or explanation for a result is the one […]
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Of Eligibility, Expediency and Humpback Whales
INTRODUCTION AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY by Joseph DeMaio, ©2015 (Mar. 23, 2015) — “The only principle to which most politicians will unfailingly adhere is expediency.” — Anonymous Two recent events prompt this post. First, today, Senator Ted Cruz formally announced that he will be a candidate for the GOP nomination for president in 2016. The announcement was […]
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President’s Day 2015
“THE USURPER’S NAME IS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2015 (Feb. 16, 2015) — On this February 16, we observe what has come to be called “President’s Day.” Originally, the holiday in February was known as “Washington’s Birthday” and was observed on his actual birthday, February 22. However, in 1968, Congress passed the “Uniform […]
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Is the Presidential Eligibility Question Beginning to Resound?
“NO PERSON EXCEPT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN…” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 13, 2015) — In an editorial at The Washington Post on Friday, columnist Jennifer Rubin asked, “Why is Ted Cruz doing so poorly in the pre-2016 race?” Her question refers to the Republican posturing for the 2016 presidential contest which unofficially began at the […]
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Media Continues to Equate “Citizen” with “Natural Born Citizen”
ARE THEY AFRAID OF HISTORY? by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 25, 2015) — On Friday, Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau Chief Todd Gillman reported on remarks which prominent businessman Donald Trump made prior to the Iowa Freedom Summit, where a number of potential 2016 presidential candidates and current public servants assembled on Saturday. Sen. Charles Grassley […]
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Two-Thirds of the Members Present
“DRASTIC TIMES CALL FOR DRASTIC MEAURES” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2014 (Dec. 8, 2014) — Some time ago, I floated the modest proposal that Republican presidential aspirants should flood the system with seal-embossed, hard, paper certified copies of their original birth certificates in an effort to get the Emperor at 1600 to do the same. Plainly, […]