Moving Back to America
America is an Idea America, as a country, is the only one built on the idea of the God-given sovereignty of the individual, with those rights codified in its founding documents: the Declaration of Independence,…
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How Do You Say, “Banana Republic?”
SCOTUS Denies Standing in Texas lawsuit? To quote a suborned septuagenarian, “Come on, man!” Constitution? What’s that? Oh, I remember. It’s that parchment thingy stored in a fancy glass case with some kind of gas.…
Time To Re-Imagine the Second Amendment
Lawmakers, Law-breakers, and Violence Unless you have been living under a rock, you are probably aware of the calls from lawmakers and gun safety advocates to address gun violence through common sense gun laws. The…
Bunker Joe and the Ballot Avalanche
Just Wonderin’ With all the allegations swirling around ballot box abuses, my tinfoil hat reflex starts to kick in. Joe’s campaign rallies were significantly under-inspiring. The dozens of supporters that showed up at this rallies…
The Moral of the Nuremberg Trials
Comply With Unlawful Orders at Your Own Peril It may well be that the major moral of the post-World War II trials in Nuremberg, Germany is that one complies with unlawful orders at his or…
2 Out of 34,944
How to Turn a Constitutional Republic into an Oligarchic “Democracy” Editor’s Note (5/27/2021): 2 out of 34944 is an estimate of the number of hours expended in voting (2) out of the number of hours…
NRA Bad! Gun Owners for Safety Good!
An End Run Around the NRA Apparently, Gabby Gifford and Mark Kelly, through the Giffords Foundation, recently created a gun owners association called “Gun Owners for Safety.” While many in the 2A community disparage the…
The Specter of City-States
The Temper Tantrums of Zero-Defect Philosophasters I recently read where Philadelphia is bringing suit against the State of Pennsylvania over its firearm preemption statute. Really? The premise behind preemption statues is to prevent varying assortments…
How Are You Going To Complain If You Have No Mouth?
The Algorithm Did It! One of the scenes from “The Matrix” showed Neo (referred to as Mr. Anderson by the agents of the matrix) warning his captors he would levy a charge of unlawful arrest…
Not So Freudian Slip
“Harris-Biden” Administration One would have to have been born off-world not to have known that the probability Mr. Biden would complete a full term, if he were to secure the election, is near zero. Ms.…