American History

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a victory for the U.S. Constitution, Oregon has rescinded all its applications for an Article V Constitutional Convention, or Con-Con. On July 18, Governor Tina Kotek signed House Bill 2625 (H.B. 3625) into law. The bill had previously passed the House by a 33-16 vote, and the Senate by a 25-0 vote. H.B. 3625, once...

Bet_Noire/iStock/Getty Images Plus On this day, July 26, in 1787, the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia agreed to the following method of electing the president of the United States: He would be chosen by Congress; He would serve a term of seven years; and He would be ineligible for re-election That’s right. That’s the method of electing the...

Mohamed Rasik/iStock/Getty Images Plus If you’re in Michigan, consider this your notice that the Second Amendment does not apply in “sensitive places” within your state. The Michigan Court of Appeals recently held that the University of Michigan (UM) campus — and all other schools in the state — is exempt from the protections of the Second Amendment regarding keeping and...

Three hundred years ago today, the final installment of Cato’s Letters was published in London. It was Number 138 and was one of the few of that collection co-authored by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon.  For those of you unfamiliar with those names, I direct you to this article I wrote regarding their incalculable contribution to the founding of the...

The left wants all future elections to look just like they did in 2020, and we have the blueprints to prove it. Covid-19 was the excuse Democrats used to radically transform our nation’s election systems in ways that make them less secure, less fair, and more vulnerable to mischief. Virtually all of the “temporary” changes introduced—ever-earlier voting, mass mail-in balloting,...

Jacob Wackerhausen/iStock/Getty Images Plus After two years of deliberate delaying, the Providence Public School District in Providence, Rhode Island, consented last week to treat an after-school Bible club on the same terms as the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and Girls on the Run. Following the Covid shutdown that closed the schools, a group called the Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) tried...

Jean-Antoine Houdon/Wikimedia Commons Gouverneur Morris Anyone who supports a future constitutional convention (amendments convention, convention of states, etc.) will want to stop reading this article right now, especially if you claim to respect and admire the Founding Fathers. For the rest of us, let me share with you the unbelievable and undeniable truth heard on July 23 during the debates...

A large school district near Washington says it banned opt-outs from lessons based on books featuring gay and transgender characters because too many parents requested their children be excused from the lessons. Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) in Maryland banned opt-outs on March 23, after initially allowing some students to leave classrooms when the lessons were taught. District guidelines allow...

Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court have sparked a heated debate about the role that the institution should play in interpreting the U.S. Constitution and the wording of the secondary laws that give it viability. The overturning of abortion rights and affirmative action, along with the refusal to forgive the debt of college students from low-income backgrounds, has provoked...

Since its founding, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has led the Chinese people in a bitter struggle toward national independence and popular liberation, and it has brought about the country’s rapid economic development. Every one of China’s significant achievements is inseparable from the CPC’s leadership. By adhering to the basic tenets of Marxism, the CPC has upheld and developed...

Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee released a scathing report on Wednesday evening accusing DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of intentional “dereliction of duty” in securing the nation’s borders. The GOP interim report claims Mr. Mayorkas has “actively encouraged and facilitated mass illegal immigration,” neglecting his sworn oath to “control and guard” the borders. The investigation, initiated earlier under Chair...

Republicans will vigorously fight a Democrat-backed bill that would regulate the Supreme Court when the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on the measure on July 20. “Tomorrow will be one hell of a fight,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said at a late afternoon press conference in the U.S. Capitol on July 19. “The effort by the Left to destroy the Court...

AP Images Kim Reynolds For the second time in five years, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a “heartbeat” bill into law. After calling the state’s General Assembly back into special session to consider the issue, the legislative branch passed the bill overwhelmingly last week and Reynolds signed it into law on Friday. She celebrated: This week, in a rare and...

wellphoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus It is an easy step from restraining the press to making it place the worst actions of government in so favorable a light, that we may groan under tyranny and oppression without knowing from whence it comes. — “Cincinnatus” No. 2 The First Amendment is clear:  Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech,...

All of the top Republican presidential candidates, Donald Trump excepted, braved questions from journalist Tucker Carlson at a summit in Des Moines, Iowa. While some met with a lukewarm or, at times, unfriendly reception from the very Christian audience, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy was most definitely not among them. He even got a standing ovation. “It would seem that we’re...

Commentary Back in March, people shopping at Target began noticing a new line of clothing on full display on mannequins at the front of the store—LGBT clothes, clothes from a Satanic brand, and merchandise with Satanic messaging. These included clothes for small children and onesies for babies. Also included were “tuck-friendly” clothing for males who identify as females and want...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta (formerly Facebook) will provide a “one-off funding boost” to third-party fact-checkers in the lead-up to a national referendum on whether to change the Australian Constitution. The tech giant will work with RMIT CrossCheck to monitor “misinformation trends” leading up to the contentious Indigenous Voice to Parliament proposal, and will share guidance on “combating false information” with journalists....

John Whitehead There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America.― James Bamford, journalist We’re all being targeted now. We’re all guilty until proven innocent now. And thanks to the 24/7 surveillance being carried out by the government’s spy network of fusion centers, we are all now sitting ducks, just waiting to be tagged, flagged, targeted, monitored, manipulated,...

AP Images Xavier Becerra It’s a good thing the “adults are back in charge.” Otherwise, we wouldn’t have cocaine found inside the White House. We wouldn’t have “transgenders” exposing themselves on the White House lawn. We wouldn’t have a mentally ill man who thinks he is a woman prancing about in a dress and calling himself an admiral as he...

mj0007/iStock/Getty Images Plus Soon, the U.S. Supreme Court will usurp the authority to redefine the Second Amendment … again. Here’s a quick background on the case that will be heard by the Supreme Court this fall, as provided by Spectrum 1 out of New York: Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall to decide if a...