American History

koi88/iStock/Getty Images Plus Count a Biden-nominated judge among those anti-gun Democrats who think that New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham went too far in issuing an order banning the carrying of firearms in Albuquerque and its surrounding county. David Urias, a district judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, nominated by Joe Biden two years...

John Whitehead We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. — Abraham Lincoln Those who gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights believed that the government exists at the behest of its citizens. It is there to protect, defend...

Photo courtesy of Matthew Monfore Private landowners and farmers attend the Public Utilities Commission meeting South Dakota has once again said no to carbon-capture pipelines. On Monday, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) unanimously denied Summit Carbon Solutions’ application for a state permit to install a carbon-capture pipeline across central and eastern South Dakota. The motion came from the PUC’s lead...

Library of Congress As perhaps you’ve noticed throughout this series of articles on the events of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, clauses — important clauses — were agreed upon by delegates, only to be completely rewritten when this or that committee was assigned to compile a complete draft of the approved provisions.  It is this unassailable historical truth that gives...

Pbroks13 (talk)/Wikimedia Commons Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is seeking information from the Biden administration regarding U.S. military operations in Niger and other countries around the world: Under what authority are these operations being undertaken, what is their purpose, and how many U.S. casualties have resulted from them? After 10 years of a U.S. military presence in Niger, the ostensible purpose...

Biden administration Cabinet members Take out your copy of the United States Constitution. Better yet, pull up a copy online so you can search for a specific word. Now, search for the word “cabinet.” Spoiler alert: You won’t find the word “cabinet” in the Constitution. Why, then, does the president have a Cabinet, and where did it come from?  These...

Jim Webb, a former U.S. senator from Virginia, former secretary of the Navy, man of letters, and a Vietnam platoon leader with a heroic combat record, recently rendered a public service in coming to the defense of the endangered century-old Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery in a Wall Street Journal commentary.  “I cannot imagine,” Webb wrote, “that the removal...

endfossilfuels.us We are fast approaching an important anniversary in our nation’s history. September 17 is Constitution Day, on which we celebrate the formal establishment of the United States of America in 1787. Our Founding Fathers instituted an extremely limited federal government, and as a result, for more than two centuries, our Constitution has been in the crosshairs of those who...

alancrosthwaite/iStock/Getty Images Plus The federal government — including the legislative, executive, and judicial branches — has for decades implemented and enforced unconstitutional and increasingly-socialist policies. These policies and programs have significantly increased the size of government, and are pulling our Republic away from the U.S. Constitution and its founding principles as enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. However, the situation...

richterfoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus On August 31, after a gathering of EU foreign ministers in Toledo, Spain, European Commission Vice-President Josep Borrell declared that the European Union has to prepare for a future expansion that may entail up to 10 new members. Borrell said that Ukraine and the Western Balkan nations were the main candidates for EU accession, elaborating that the...

Marion Doss/flickr Standing at this end of history, we know that as the calendar changed from August to September the historic Constitutional Convention of 1787 was just a couple of weeks from being adjourned by convention president George Washington. The representatives assembled, however, had no idea how much longer it would take to produce a document that could attain the...

AP Images COS co-founder Michael Farris The Convention of States (COS) organization is calling out The Washington Post for publishing a “hit piece” on COS co-founder Michael Farris.  In their response to the Post’s article, COS describes the article’s message as “a simple one: Michael Farris … is a terrifying threat to American society.” To be fair, the Post’s piece...

AP Images Andrew Bailey Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey put St. Louis City Mayor Tishaura Jones on notice this week after she announced plans to introduce legislation that would prohibit “military-grade weapons” on city streets and make it a crime for “insurrectionists and those convicted of hate crimes” to possess firearms.  A press release shared that Bailey sent Jones a...

MCCAIG/iStock/Getty Images Plus “It is not to be expected, that criminals will destroy their own handiwork; that they will either reform or punish themselves; or, that men, who have brought our misfortunes upon us, will go about in good earnest to redress them, or even own that there are any such.” — Cato’s Letter No. 69 (March 10, 1722) “Government...

DonkeyHotey/flickr The controversial topics seemed never-ending at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. We’ve covered treason, state sovereignty, taxes, and now the powers of Congress and the trust the American people could put in them. The draft of the Constitution that the delegates were debating included five restrictions on Congress: No export taxes No tax or prohibition on migration or importation...

AP Images Bill Lee Although scheduled to wrap up yesterday (August 24), the Tennessee state Legislature’s “special session” for dealing with gun violence and public safety has been prolonged and will continue debate on these issues Monday, August 28. Tennessee’s Governor Bill Lee, a Republican, called for the special session of the Legislature after six people were murdered at Covenant...

Epic Top 10 Site/flickr The State House in Philadelphia was buzzing this week in 1787. The men sent by the states to recommend amendments to the Articles of Confederation had created a new constitution, which in turn created a new government for the confederation of states, and they were going over the first draft clause by clause. And the divisions...

Calls from Congress and state houses to the private sector for out-of-the-box thinking, such as repegging the currency to gold or declaring precious metals to be legal tender, are growing. With inflation plaguing the economy as the U.S. dollar is increasingly being sidelined in international trade, potentially even at risk of losing its status as the global reserve currency, lawmakers...

Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States of America. He is the main author of the Declaration of Independence. He also secured the Louisiana purchase. This man is none other than Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13 1743. His father was named Peter Jefferson. Thomas’s mother was called Jane Randolph. Another really interesting thing...