Tag: the Founders
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More News on Bing AI’s Views of an nbC
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Dec. 9, 2023) — As the issue of what it takes to be a “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) as intended by the Founders – as contrasted with contemporary wags and academics – continues to be “evaded” by the U.S. Supreme Court, your humble servant persists in interrogating Bing AI on the…
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The Kerchner “Hint”
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Dec. 6, 2023) — In response/comment to your humble servant’s post here, P&E contributor, reader and nbC warrior CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret) suggested asking Bing AI if any of the Founders understood French. The response could shed light on a predicate foundation for the Founders’ use and understanding of Emer de…
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Election Malevolence
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Nov. 6, 2020) — The Founders are furious… I channeled them last night. They are enraged. They are apoplectic at the magnitude of fraud being perpetrated by unprincipled and malevolent Democrat election officials on the nation they founded in 1776. Benjamin Franklin asked: “Who the *%#@& do these jerks think they…
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The Saga of the Dueling Anecdotes
“THE BEST EVIDENCE” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Oct. 19, 2020) — In the continuing saga of “dueling anecdotes” regarding the issue of what the Founders intended when they engrafted onto the Constitution in 1787 the “natural born Citizen” clause, Art. 2, § 1, Cl. 5, commenters Schuyler Colfax and Joanna Brady continue adding their observations. …
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Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decision Quotes Vattel’s “The Law of Nations”
“TAKEN AS A GIVEN BY THE FOUNDERS” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2019 (Jun. 30, 2019) — Recently, your faithful servant (moi) submitted a post for consideration here at The P&E, which the intrepid editor accepted and published. The post arose in connection with the continuing question of who is – and more importantly, who is not…
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Rogue Judges Emerge as Primary Threat to Presidency
“JUDICIAL TYRANNY” by JB Williams, ©2017 (Mar. 22, 2017) — At the forming of our Constitutional Republic, three “co-equal branches” of the federal government were not created or intended. Three “independent” branches were intended and created, with certain checks and balances put in place to ensure no branch could ever, through their independent enumerated powers,…
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The News Media, Progressive Co-Conspirators and Racketeers
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2017 (Mar. 12, 2017) — What is the purpose of news? Any reasonable person would say that it is to find out what is happening of importance locally in their city, county, or state, what is happening nationally in their own country and what…
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It’s Eligibility, Stupid
“HYPOCRITICAL NONSENSE” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2017 (Jan. 18, 2017) — If it were not so comically hypocritical, it could even be called neurotic. Specifically, the contention by Congressional Black Caucus operative John Lewis that Donald J. Trump does not qualify as a “legitimate president” is beyond neurotic. It is borderline delusional. One is reminded of…
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It Still Matters
“MONUMENTAL CONSEQUENCES” by RoseAnn Salanitri, ©2017, TPATH (Jan. 6, 2017) — In our politically correct world, truth is often bullied into submission through intimidation and name-calling. Not only has this tactic proven to be divisive, it has also struck many blows to free speech that have been valued in America since its inception. I remember…
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Draining the Cultural Swamp in our Children’s Minds
“PROPERTY AND FREEDOM ARE INSEPARABLE” by John Anthony, Sustainable Freedom Lab, ©2017 (Jan. 2, 2017) — While Donald Trump maneuvers to cleanse government’s cesspool, communities face a bigger challenge at home. Academics, classroom teachers, newspapers and television, movie stars and the Cultural Arts are seducing our children into believing it is their duty to relinquish…
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In the Political World, Our Constitution and Bill of Rights Don’t Matter
“THE COERCIVE FORCE OF GOVERNMENT” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Dec. 17, 2016) — “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this…
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Eternal Vigilance is No Easy Task…
“A CRITICAL TURNING POINT IN AMERICA” by U.S. Patriots Union, ©2016 (Dec. 15, 2016) — ALL MEMBERS, DONORS AND SUPPORTERS, 240 years after the birth of the greatest nation ever known to mankind, words have become a weapon of choice among politicos and pundits and many of those words have been so over used and…
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DEMs Delusion or Demolition?
100% FILIBUSTER PROOF DESTROYING THE MINORITY by Cody Robert Judy, ©2016, blogging at CodyJudy (Dec. 8, 2016) — SENATE FILIBUSTER DEATH? The key to the Senate Filibuster was that it gave the Minority Party power, encouraging compromise with opposite-party members to get laws passed. With the work conducted of NV-D. Sen Harry Reid, that compromise…
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Who Represents Whom, and Did Our Founders Support Term Limits?
“THE BATTLE FOR LIBERTY AGAINST TYRANNY” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Dec. 7, 2016) — “It is a sound and important principle that the representative ought to be acquainted with the interests and circumstances of his constituents.” James Madison, ~ Federalist #56 Article I, Section 2 of our Constitution states in part, “The number…
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The Fake News Paradigm
“ESCALATING EXTINCTION” by RoseAnn Salanitri, ©2016, TPATH Contributor (Dec. 2, 2016) — According to Pew Research, as of September 2014, 64% of Americans got their news from social media sites such as FaceBook, YouTube, and Twitter. It is reasonable to assume that this number increased during the 2016 presidential campaign season. The shift in trusted…
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Pushing Electoral Anxiety
COULD THE “PROCESS” BE HIJACKED? by Dwight Kehoe, Editor, TPATH, ©2016 (Nov. 25, 2016) — For the third day in a row, if El Rushbo wasn’t pushing his new book, he was bantering on about how President Elect Trump’s inauguration might be in peril. There seems to be a hidden agenda in Mr. Limbaugh’s rhetoric…
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A Trump Strategy to Neuter HUD’s Attacks on Local Rule
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…
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A New Start
“DELIGHTED TO BE OF SERVICE” by Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Col., USA (Ret.), ©2016 (Nov. 9, 2016) — The Founders almost had it right all along! They failed to see the abysmal failure that party politics would presage. When Thomas Jefferson and James Madison differed with Alexander Hamilton over a few, at the time, major…
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Trump’s Path to the White House
“THE STAKES ARE FAR TOO GREAT” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2016, blogging at Order of the Ephors (Nov. 5, 2016) — If one were to seriously contemplate the outcome of next week’s presidential election by considering nothing more than the daily deluge of the top eight or ten polling organizations, it would surely make one’s head explode. …
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What Will You Do When It’s Over?
DOES A “NEW PRESIDENT” MEAN CHANGE, OR MORE OF THE SAME? by Michael Gaddy, ©2016. blogging at The Rebel Madman (Oct. 21, 2016) — Well, it is almost over; presidential campaigns began well over one year ago. There were 17 candidates from the Republican side when it started and just three viable Democrats. But, sometime…