Tag: Benjamin Franklin
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Perspective: Is This Communist Rise an Insurgency or an Emergence?
by John Bernard, ©2026 (Jul. 25, 2026) — Are Mamdani, Platner, Sanders, Chevalier, Landers, Valdez, Wilson, Sayed and more the threat to the Republic or more like a festering boil on the butt cheek indicating a systemic virus? Rhetorical. Once again, no politician is miracled into office. They are voted into office by an exuberant…
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The Quisling at 1600
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2024 (Mar. 29, 2024) — The characterization of Brandon as “the slug at 1600” does not adequately describe him. A potential better term might be the “quisling slug at 1600.” Accordingly, a new, abbreviated moniker for the current occupant of the Oval Office is suggested: “the q-slug,” pronounced: “cue-slug.” The term “quisling”…
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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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A Republic, if We Can Keep It
by Mike Latham, ©2022 (Jun. 11, 2022) — America is presently teetering on the possibility of collapse. In the event that Democrats maintain control of the executive and the Congress, their policies will all but guarantee a severe recession or depression and the failure of many institutions. In fact, it’s already begun. Many of our…
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Of the FHDP and Benjamin Franklin
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Sep. 30, 2021) — Once again, with each passing hour, day, week and month, the incremental disintegration of the nation under the metastasizing tyranny of the Goofball Regime continues. The latest news comes via a Border Patrol whistleblower to Congressman Jim Jordan. The whistleblower has informed Jordan that Customs and Border…
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Independence Day 2021
by Robert C. Laity, ©2021 (Jul. 4, 2021) — Reflecting on Benjamin Franklin’s words 245 years ago, “We have a republic if we can keep it,” “We the People” have managed to “keep” the United States Republic going since he made that famous statement. The question now, in 2021, is will “We the People” continue…
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Open Letter to Vice-President Michael Pence
December 26, 2020 Mr. Vice-President- The likelihood that you will ever see this open letter is remote. Neither you nor your aides likely visit this website – too bad – so unless someone who does visit forwards the message to you, it will probably remain unseen on your computer screen or mobile device. Yet it…
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Fight Fires with Facts – not Fake Science
ELIMINATE FUEL, PREVENT IGNITION, STOP ARSON, END IRRESPONSIBLE LAND MANAGEMENT POLICIES by Paul Driessen & Duggan Flanakin, ©2020 (Jan. 19, 2020) — “We are all born ignorant,” Benjamin Franklin once said, “but one must work very hard to remain stupid.” Greens are incensed over suggestions that anything but fossil fuels and climate change might be…
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Who was Benjamin Franklin? (1706-1790)
A MAN OF “STRONG CURIOSITY” by James Still, RetraceOurSteps.com, ©2018 (Nov. 1, 2018) — Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706. At the age of 12, he began an apprenticeship as a printer and later wrote Poor Richard’s Almanack. Franklin helped establish the first Public Hospital and the first volunteer fire department in America. …
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The Philosophy of the Vote
“IF YOU COULD VOTE, BUT DON’T…” by OPOVV, ©2018 (Oct. 24, 2018) — “Sonata in C K.545 1st mov.” (3:18) “Hark! Where yon off to, on this glorious 100-watt day?” “‘Tis oft bright, say I. To the land where one spies shelves of good eats, oft yonder, through lights of red and over tracks of…
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Why Do 57% of Americans Want More Government?”
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2018, President, NARLO (Jan. 7, 2018) — “In a 2017 poll conducted by NBC News/Wall Street Journal, a record 57% of Americans responded that they want MORE government in their lives, and that the government should be doing more to solve people’s problems. That’s the highest percentage since…
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Equity and Social Justice – Democrats’ Tool for Perpetual Power
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2017 (Jul. 23, 2017) — “I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public…
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The Meaning of the Rattlesnake (1775)
“THE TEMPER AND CONDUCT OF AMERICA” by James Still, RetraceOurSteps.com, ©2017 (Jun. 1, 2017) — The rattlesnake was a significant symbol used throughout the American Revolution. The Department of War, established in 1789, included a rattlesnake in its seal in recognition of the rattlesnake’s importance. The Department of the Army (1947), successor to the Department…
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Make This Your Next Target (RR)
DO JUDGES REALIZE THE IMPACT OF ILLEGAL-ALIEN CRIME? by OPOVV, ©2017 (Apr. 2, 2017) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘Pulse of the Nation,’ the ever-popular show that always gets the most viewers, thanks to you. As I’m sure you’ve noticed, we’re not on as much as we used to be due…
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Our Worthless Money (RR)
BUT YOUR VOTE HAS VALUE by OPOVV, ©2016 (Nov. 8, 2016) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘Pulse of the Nation,’ the show that lays it on the line. I’m your Roving Reporter and will be your host this evening. For our new viewers let me explain what we try to do: we attack…
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An Open Letter to Senator Lindsey Graham
“THE REALITY OF THE VOTE” by OPOVV, ©2016 (May 7, 2016) — Dear Mr. Temper Tantrum Graham: Heard you the other day saying that you weren’t going to vote in the next presidential election, which reminded me of a paper that Benjamin Franklin wrote in our country’s infancy. Benjamin was explaining to the American people…
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The Decisions in Elliott v. Cruz and Williams v. Cruz, Conclusion
“FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED REASONING” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Apr. 26, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following is a continuation of Joseph DeMaio’s detailed analysis of the outcome of two challenges to the constitutional eligibility of Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican presidential candidate born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to a non-U.S.-citizen father and a presumed U.S.-citizen mother on…
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Pretentious Patriots
“IGNORING THE CONSTITUTION” by Dwight Kehoe, Editor, TPATH, ©2016 (Mar. 11, 2016) — Several years ago many Americans awoke to the outrageous mess this country was in. A movement, not planned or anticipated, spontaneously spawned as groups formed all across this country comprised of concerned parents and grandparents who coalesced in a common cause. So…
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Should We Elect An American President?
THE “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN” ISSUE EXPLAINED by Alan Korwin, ©2016, Gunlaws.com (Feb. 25, 2016) — Can just anyone be elected President of the United States? No, of course not. Foreigners for example are not eligible. The Constitution spells out the eligibility standards: Article II, Section 1: “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a…
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The Poison of Party Politics
“A FRIGHTFUL DESPOTISM” by Dr. Tom E. Davis, Col., USA (Ret.), 2016 (Jan. 16, 2016) — From the left-tilted magazine “Politico” comes this: “Do the Democrats Have a Next Act? Forget the Republican squabble—it’s Hillary’s party that needs to find new ideas” by Todd S. Purdum, 1/15/2016: Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/do-the-democrats-have-a-next-act-213532#ixzz3xKa62cPc” Search “Todd S. Purdum-Politico” for…