Tag: Congress
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Checking the Voter Rolls Is Not a Betrayal of Civil Rights. It is a Safeguard of Them.
Voter verification prevents both disenfranchisement and voter fraud. Alexis de Tocqueville would see it as a positive step. by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Oct. 12, 2026) — Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s recent ruling identifies some problems with the Justice Department’s methods, but its portrayal of voter verification goes beyond what those findings establish. Popular…
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Yet Another Modest Proposal
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2026 (Oct. 4, 2026) — As faithful P&E readers will recall, over the years your humble servant has made several “modest proposals” seeking to address unresolved issues then percolating in the Republic. Most, if not all of those proposals, have dealt with the “birthright citizenship” and “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) matters under…
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Information Quality Act: Basis for Serious Regulatory Reform
by William L. Kovacs, ©2026 (Sep. 21, 2026) — A July 23, 2026, New York Times article, “Big Businesses Quietly Desert Climate Goals,” illustrates an unsettling feature of American policymaking: major corporations often adjust their policy priorities to accommodate the beliefs and preferences of whichever administration holds power. The potential rewards are substantial—subsidies, grants, tax…
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U.S. Senate to Vote on America’s Economic Future
by Jeff Crouere, ©2026 (Sep. 13, 2026) — This week, the U.S. Senate will vote on the CLARITY Act, which would create federal guidelines for digital assets and establish sensible regulation to help the industry sustain future growth. This will enable the next generation of financial innovation to prosper in the United States. The CLARITY…
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Republicans Need a Sanity Check on a $40 T National Debt
by William L. Kovacs, ©2026 (Sep. 7, 2026) — Every Republican president and most Republican congressional candidates since Calvin Coolidge have advocated reducing the national debt. Calvin Coolidge was the only Republican president to cut the budget by one-third during his term in office and achieve a budget surplus. Since then, every president has added to…
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Students Enter the 2026-27 School Year in a Legal Crossfire
by Martin Mawyer, New American Prophet, ©2026 (Sep. 6, 2026) — School buses are back on the road. Children are carrying new backpacks into unfamiliar classrooms. Parents are packing lunches, checking schedules, and trusting school officials with their sons and daughters for another year. But something is waiting for them at the schoolhouse door: lawyers,…
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Perspective: Tariffs, Canada, Lake Ontario
by John Bernard, ©2026 (Aug. 29, 2026) — Starting in 1992, Congress took up discussion of putting together a framework for Free Trade agreements in the Western Hemisphere, principally between the USA, Mexico and Canada, which became known as the North American Free Trade Agreement. At the same time, they worked to finalize a similar effort…
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Corporate Personhood: Constitutional Doctrine Without Constitutional Text: Part IV
by William L. Kovacs, ©2026 (Aug. 24, 2026) — Part IV: Using AI Statistics to Prove Corporate Money Corrupts Politics After 140 years of Supreme Court holdings that corporations have constitutional rights, there does not appear to be a simple remedy for balancing the use of massive corporate resources to control the political system while…
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The Far Left is No Longer Just on The Fringe of the Democratic Party. Republicans Need to Make This a Campaign Issue.
by David Shephard, ©2026 (Aug. 21, 2026) — History teaches us a few things about mid-term elections, namely, turnout is lower than in a Presidential election year, and the party out of the White House always (with exceptions in 1998 and 2002) gains seats in Congress. I suppose it makes sense; the party out of…
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If Democrats win, Trump Will Be Impeached Again
by Jeff Crouere, ©2026 (Aug. 16, 2026) — Recent primary elections show the Democratic Party is split between the socialists and the establishment. This is a battle between the left and the far left. Among leaders in today’s Democratic Party, moderates do not exist, except for U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA). The old pro-capitalism and…
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Wisconsin Democrats Dodge a Bullet
by David Shephard, ©2026 (Aug. 13, 2026) — Every once in a while it is good to be reminded that the polls can be wrong. We found this out Tuesday night in Wisconsin. State Representative and member of the Democratic Socialists of America Francesca Hong was the front runner to win the nomination for governor;…
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$40 Trillion Debt is America’s Greatest Threat
by Jeff Crouere, ©2026 (Aug. 9, 2026) — The U.S. federal government is several weeks away from reaching a disturbing milestone, surpassing $40 trillion in debt. The U.S. Senate just left for recess after passing another stopgap spending bill with no offsetting cuts. This avoids a government shutdown before the midterm elections but does not slow gargantuan…
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86 – nbC
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2026 (Jul. 26, 2026) — Introduction The following offering on the “birthright citizenship” decision in Trump v. Barbara picks up where your humble servant’s initial offering left off. Specifically, it will address in greater detail the remote – yet now thanks to the Barbara decision – actual potential for the neutering…
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A Civil War in the Democratic Party is Inevitable
by David Shephard, ©2026 (Jul. 23, 2026) — When I was growing up in Fairfax County in the 1980’s (a great decade, by the way), one of our neighbors was Congressman Kent Hance from Texas. A bit of Kent Hance trivia for you: he is the only person to ever defeat George W. Bush in…
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Amid Chaos, Congress Takes Another Vacation
by Jeff Crouere, ©2026 (Jul. 19, 2026) — As America is engaged in a five-month military conflict with Iran and the economy has been suffering, Congress has responded with predictable inaction. It is little wonder that Americans give Congress a 10% approval rating, with 86% expressing disapproval. As Carl Hulse, Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times, noted, “It’s…
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Islam is a Terrorist Organization (RR)
by Pastor Dunkin, ©2026 (Jul. 18, 2026) — “The Muslims say, ‘KILL THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS’ while I say, ‘DO UNTO OTHERS BEFORE THEY DO IT UNTO YOU.’ But those who we expect to protect us – the Department of Homeland Security – refuse to deport the Muslims. Tom Homan can’t deport Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Keith…
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Rev Up the Autopen, Joe Biden Says He Has a Book Coming Out
by David Shephard, ©2026 (Jul. 17, 2026) — Joe Biden has been out of office for a little less than two years now, and while we usually have to wait a decade or two before we can get a better assessment of a presidency, I don’t think we have to wait any longer to conclude…
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Fauci Summoned
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Jul. 14, 2026) — July 29 is Anthony Fauci’s Day is Fauci’s Day of Reckoning. Fauci is returning to Congress under subpoena. The central question is no longer whether every dissenting COVID hypothesis was correct. It is whether the country’s most powerful health official used one evidentiary standard for…
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Lindsey Graham RIP
by David Shephard, ©2026 (Jul. 14, 2026) — In 2015 South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham decided to throw his hat into the ring and run for President. It was a longshot, no doubt about it, but Graham, who served in the military (Air Force JAG officer) for 30 years, in the House of Representatives and…
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Corporate Personhood: Constitutional Doctrine Without Constitutional Text
by William L. Kovacs, ©2026 (Jul. 13, 2026) — One of the least understood controversies in constitutional law is how corporations were transformed from artificial beings of state law into constitutional actors possessing rights the states cannot withdraw. The transformation to personhood over time gave corporations greater practical political influence than individual citizens because the…