Where were you 20 years ago?

September 11, 2021

Today is a solemn day in our nation’s history. For it was on this date 20 years ago terrorists attacked the United States using four hijacked airplanes. Of course, we all know what happened to them. Two of the planes — American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 — were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, eventually causing the iconic buildings to collapse. A third plane — American Airlines Flight 77 — crashed into the side of the Pentagon just across the Potomac River from Washington D.C. But the people on the fourth plane ...

Texas, abortion and the Constitution

September 10, 2021

Last week, this column addressed state nullification and secession under the U.S. Constitution. It argued, in effect, that when the government fails to protect fundamental liberties or actively assaults them — as it has done in the past 18 months under the guise of public health — the states and individuals can peacefully ignore the government and, if necessary, leave it. The concept of states leaving the federal government has been dead and buried since the outcome of the War Between the States. Yet four years after the war, the Supreme Court recognized secession in an old Texas ...

Is the left losing its grip on California?

September 9, 2021

The Democratic Party is rolling out its left-wing big guns to go to California to support Gov. Gavin Newsom in the recall election scheduled for Sept. 14. In California, the bluest of blue states, where, in 2020, challenger Joe Biden defeated incumbent President Donald Trump by a margin of almost 2-1, the polls are within the margin of error showing Newsom holding on in the recall. Why are Vice President Kamala Harris and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar putting it on the line to campaign for Newsom? They know that what is going on in California is a laboratory for what is ...

History matters and so does reality

September 8, 2021

Here we go again! In the aftermath of the mismanaged U.S. military pullout in Afghanistan, calls to impeach the president or demands for him to resign are being heard daily. Our republic cannot stand if lawmakers resort to undoing elections via impeachment every few years. If we, the electorate, are voting for undeserving or incompetent candidates, then that is on us and we need to reexamine how we chose who to vote for. Realize that in our nation’s history only three presidents have been formally impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives. The first was Andrew Johnson in 1868. ...

Labor Day – an occasion to honor American workers

September 4, 2021

It is time once again to celebrate Labor Day. It is a bittersweet holiday, signaling the end of summer with the shorter, cooler days of fall lurking just around the corner. It gives us one more reason to fire up the grill and gather family and friends close before the school buses hit the road and a new school year begins. This is quite fitting, considering that this is the main reason we go to work each day, to provide for our families. What is the purpose of this unique holiday? Why do we celebrate it? It has no religious connections, nor does it celebrate a particular event in ...

When the Constitution fails us

September 3, 2021

I have been writing for years asking if we still have the U.S. Constitution. That issue has come into sharper focus in the past 18 months as mayors and governors have created dictatorial powers and exercised those powers to interfere with personal autonomy in America. They have done this in utter disregard for the freedoms protected by the Constitution they have sworn to uphold by asserting that public health trumps personal liberty. Here is the backstory. Government is essentially the negation of freedom. If the values underlying the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and ...