FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2020 (May 9, 2020) — “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.” Abraham […]
“MOVING TOWARD INSANITY” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Apr. 23, 2020) — The adage that “a house divided against itself cannot stand” is found in many places, originating in the Bible and carried forward over the millennia into, among other regions, politics and presidential speeches. It is often repeated here at The P&E as well. The […]
“WEAPONIZING THE PANDEMIC” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Apr. 18, 2020) — In virtually every presidential campaign since the end of World War II – which ended some 75 years ago — one or the other of the candidates and/or their surrogates and supporters has claimed that “the upcoming general election will be the most important […]
“DYING IN PLAIN SIGHT” by Cherie Zaslawsky, CFP, ©2020 (Apr. 15, 2020) — An unintended consequence of my years of reading Agatha Christie mysteries is that I learned how to separate the red herrings from the salient facts hiding in plain sight, which are always the key to solving the puzzle. Admittedly, the queen of […]
HAVE JAILERS MADE HIM A “TARGET?” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 25, 2019) — A letter received last week from Shelby County, TN inmate Benjamin Miles dated October 9, 2019 expresses gratitude for The Post & Email’s response to an earlier letter in which Miles described a severe beating by correction officers and hospitalization of which […]
WHAT ARE THE PRESIDENT’S “CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS?” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 16, 2019) — In an article published Tuesday at the Independent Sentinel, a tweet by radio host and author Dan Bongino was featured which equated the U.S. House of Representatives’ “impeachment inquiry” of President Donald Trump to the activity of a grand jury, as had […]
“IT’S HAPPENING MORE THAN YOU KNOW” by Oren Long, ©2019 (Aug. 9, 2019) — In the aftermath of the El Paso and Dayton killings there is talk of “Red Flag” laws allowing family members or even friends and neighbors to “report” people they personally deem to be “dangerous” and have their guns seized by police […]
TRUMP SHOULD EMBRACE (AND EXPAND) COURT RULING THAT HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT IS FREE SPEECH FORUM by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (May 27, 2018) — President Trump may not block even rude or obnoxious criticism from his Twitter account, because it is a public forum that is protected by the First Amendment, US District Court Judge Naomi […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2018 (Feb. 25, 2018) — It is with a heavy heart that we tender these Articles of Impeachment against all living Democrat federal political office holders, the Democrat Party and the Democrat National Committee (DNC), knowing full well that millions of fine, upstanding American […]
“DIRTY POOL” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 23, 2017) — As was recently reported by TPATH, a pro se lawsuit challenging New Jersey’s restrictive gun statutes filed more than two years ago in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has received a docket number from the U.S. Supreme Court. An extensive compilation […]
DENIES DEFENSE WITNESSES AN OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 5, 2017) — U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro is presiding over the trial of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and five other defendants stemming from a confrontation with agents from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Exactly three years ago, federal agents began seizing […]
IS THERE NO MORE RULE OF LAW? by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2017 (Mar. 28, 2017) — Throughout history, mankind has confronted many major crises and turning-points, both positive and negative, manmade and naturally-occurring. For purposes of this essay I prefer to divide those crises into just two major categories: 1) man-made and natural disasters, from […]
“CLAIMS OF THE COMMERCIAL STATE” by David Tulis, ©2017, Nooganomics (Feb. 17, 2017) — An appeal from a criminal case out of Lawrence County, Tenn., challenges state government’s control of the public right-of-way by commercial regulation, a system that Jan. 1 began using license plate readers to verify whether motorists stopped under probable cause have […]
COLD CASE POSSE EVIDENCE IN THE HANDS OF THE FEDS by Cody Robert Judy, ©2017 (Feb. 6, 2017) — Mainstream news media is silent about a case involving unseated de facto president Obama in what may be the biggest dereliction of Truth we have ever witnessed as a testament of Fake News in the media […]
“EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS,” OR JUST IN SOME PLACES? by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 5, 2017) — An announcement dated February 2 at the website of the U.S. Department of Justice states that two Mississippi correction officers pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi to using excessive force against […]
GOVERNMENT-ISSUED NUMBER TIED TO ABILITY TO DRIVE, OBTAIN LICENSES by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 8, 2017) — In 1996, Congress passed a law which included the requirement that any applicant seeking a fishing, marriage, driver’s, occupational, or any other professional license must provide his or her Social Security number. Likewise, the Social Security number of anyone […]
“NOTHING SHOULD COME AS A SURPRISE” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Nov. 17, 2016) — Soooo… Barbra (“I’m-moving-to-Australia-or-Canada-if-Trump-is-elected”) Streisand is now spearheading a petition drive to get the current Usurper at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to again bypass the U.S. Senate and unilaterally “appoint” Judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left following […]
FEDERAL AGENCIES’ POWER HAS SURPASSED THAT OF CONGRESS by John Anthony, ©2016, Sustainable Freedom Lab (Nov. 15, 2016) — When President Reagan took office in 1980, he promised to reduce the number of federal agencies and rules. Eight years later, his Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief failed to eliminate a single agency or even […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Oct. 9, 2016) — Since the days of the Indus Valley, Babylonians and Mesopotamia over 5,000 years ago, people have struggled to be free from control of the ruling classes. But those who rule have most always had the weapons and resources to […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Av Harris, (203) 814-7992, av.harris@bridgeportct.gov (Sep. 7, 2016) — Mayor Joe Ganim released the following statement reacting to a decision by Hartford Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher declaring unconstitutional Connecticut’s current public education funding formula. “This decision by Judge Moukawsher is a game changer for our children. This ruling is a […]