Tag: Library of Congress
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Exclusive Interview with CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret) on His New Book, Part II
by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 13, 2025) — On Wednesday, January 8, The Post & Email conducted an interview with CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret) about the publication of his latest book, “Kerchner v Obama & Congress/Petition for Certiorari (10-446)/To The U.S. Supreme Court –/The Public Advertorial Campaign,” on January 6, 2025. As we reported,…
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Revisiting the Heritage Guide to the Constitution
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (May 13, 2023) — Introduction Recently, your humble servant addressed the flawed reasoning of the “Heritage Guide to the Constitution” (“Guide”) set out in its explanatory analysis of Art. 2, § 1, Cl. 5. This, of course, is the Constitution’s “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) presidential Eligibility Clause, the source of increasing scrutiny…
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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 Goebbels Corollary
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Mar. 27, 2023) — Introduction Paraphrasing Third Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: “If you are going to tell a lie, make it a big one, as no one will believe a small one, and repeat it over and over, because eventually people will come to accept it as the truth.”…
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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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Exclusive: The Post & Email’s Interview with Plaintiff in New Congressional Lawsuit
WILL WE SOON SEE AN ARTICLE V CONVENTION OF STATES? by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 10, 2015) — On Thursday, former attorney and constitutional scholar Montgomery Blair Sibley announced that he filed a lawsuit against Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for having failed to respond to his request to…
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How Much of Barack Obama’s Official Life Story is True?
WHO IS “OBAMA?” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 5, 2015) — On Twitter on Thursday, CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller reported that Obama will be speaking at a rally marking the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march in Selma, AL known as a turning point in equal voting rights for blacks. The march was…
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Middle East Analyst: Libya Now “Functioning Completely Unchecked”
FOLLOWING DEBACLE OF SEPTEMBER 11 by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 20, 2012) — On Thursday, The Post & Email received a link to an article which had been published on September 20, 2012 at Gulag Bound in response to the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya and subsequent deaths of four Americans…
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Could Kim Jong-Un Have Been President of the United States?
ACCORDING TO AUTHOR OF CRS MEMOS, “YES” by Creg Maroney (Dec. 23, 2011) — Mr. Jack Maskell titles himself as ” legislative attorney in the American Law Division of Congressional Research Service.” He has sent out more then one memo with half truths trying to manipulate and mislead congress and the citizens of the United States. According to Mr.…
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Without Partisan Bias
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND by Joseph DeMaio, ©2011 (Jun. 27, 2011) — In the first series of The Post & Email essays addressing the issue of the role of the Congressional Research Service (“CRS”) and its examination of whether the individual now occupying the residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. is, in fact, even constitutionally…
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The Eligibility Zombie: Redux
IS FURTHER EXPLANATION REQUIRED SINCE OBAMA RELEASED A “LONG-FORM” IMAGE WHICH THE CRS MEMO STATED WAS UNNECESSARY? by Joseph DeMaio (May 28, 2011) — In the first posting on the topic entitled “The Eligibility Zombie,” the role of an April 3, 2009 memorandum prepared by a lawyer at the Congressional Research Service (“CRS”), one Jack…
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The Constitution makes no mention of “native born”
IS THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT COMPLICIT IN ALLOWING OBAMA TO OCCUPY THE WHITE HOUSE? by Tim DeJong (Jun. 21, 2010) — There is no statement by a framer which equated “native born” citizenship, the phrase Obama II has used to describe his status, with “natural born” citizenship. From John Jay and Dr. David Ramsay, Thomas Jefferson…
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Jefferson used Vattel’s “The Law of Nations” to write our founding documents
PERSONAL COPY OF 1775 FRENCH EDITION KEY TO FORMULATING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE by Cmdr. Charles Kerchner (May 3, 2010) — The founders and framers were fluent in French. Thomas Jefferson used his personal copy of the new 1775 French edition of Vattel’s The Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law to write the…