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, Part 2
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jun. 27, 2023) — [Please see Part 1 of this series here. – The “CKA” work referenced throughout is here. – Ed.] The Clement/Katyal Article The Clement/Katyal article – hereafter, for the sake of brevity, “CKA” – sets out, in some thirteen loosely-related contentions spread over four pages, the proposition that, […]
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Brandon’s Grope
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jun. 18, 2023) — In the continuing saga of Brandon’s plan to decimate what is left of the Republic, his slimy and repulsive inner sexual predator surfaces. Again. Ask Tara Reade and now, Eva Longoria. At the White House, no less, and in front of his (for the time being) spouse, […]
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A Modest Proposal 4.0
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Of Rocks at the Bottom of the Pacific
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Jun. 11, 2023) — Your humble servant has just awakened from a 24-hr. semi-coma. That temporary infirmity came as a direct result of watching and listening to Department of Justice (sic) Special Counsel Jack Smith discussing the indictment that his office has filed against former President Donald J. Trump and one […]
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Conway Leaves Out “Natural Born”
by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 3, 2023) — On Fox News’s Friday edition of “The Five,” speaking to the 2024 presidential election, guest co-host and former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway cited the constitutional requirements for the nation’s chief executive to be “35 years old” and a “U.S. citizen.” “The Five” airs at 5:00 p.m. ET every […]
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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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The Ominous Mirage: Today’s FBI
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (May 22, 2023) — The motto of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) is: Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity. That motto, once true, is today in fundamental need of demolition and a total rebuild, as it now constitutes the spreading of disinformation. It is a mirage. Indeed, it could even constitute a […]
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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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The LLPAM Nightmare
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Apr. 24, 2023) — As if we needed any additional proof that the Goof at 1600 despises responsible Americans and adores irresponsible ones, look no farther than Brandon’s new rule, administered by Fannie Mae, requiring home mortgage seekers with high credit scores to be surcharged in order to subsidize persons with […]
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The Uber-Goof And His Pogrom Against America
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Apr. 23, 2023) — The outright malevolence and disdain for the rule of law and for ordinary Americans seems to have no limit in the Beltway, and particularly in the White House. There, Brandon broods over when to announce that he will again run for the office he has sullied more […]
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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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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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Do Americans “Know Who They Are”?
by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 7, 2023) — On Sunday morning, The Post & Email published an article reflecting a dialogue initiated with us by Twitter user @MAPennell regarding the U.S. Constitution’s “natural born Citizen” clause as it relates to Ohio-born 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. It was MAPennell’s opinion that Ramaswamy should “post both parent’s […]
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The Tripping Point
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Feb. 26, 2023) — In colloquial speech, a “tipping” point usually refers to that instant in time when the effects of a policy or an action become irreversible, and after which there may be no “turning back.” Another term has emerged in the vernacular: “tripping point.” That term refers to those […]
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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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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) […]
