Tag: the US Constitution

Prof. James Duane (Image source: Regent University website)

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James Duane
You Have the Right to Remain Innocent: What Police Officers Tell Their Children about the Fifth Amendment
New York: Little A, 2016.

Most Americans know very little about police interrogations. If a police officer wants to ask you some questions, and you know that you have not committed any crime, then you should have no problem talking to the police, right? (more…)

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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A vast majority in American society remain confident in so-called First Amendment values. (more…)

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The latest Homeland Institute poll corroborated mainstream polls showing that support for mass deportations of illegal immigrants is widespread. But support for legal immigration is still disturbingly high, even among young Republicans. (more…)

Detail from Constantino Brumidi, The Apotheosis of Washington (1865), in the US Capitol Dome. Image courtesy of Flickr.

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Who belongs to the nation

Many countries explicitly define who the members of the nation are. This is, in fact, quite normal. The United States did so, in a way — “ourselves and our posterity,” as the Preamble of the Constitution says. This meant the founding population and their descendants, of course. (more…)

The Confederate Memorial Day ceremony held in Arlington National Cemetery in 2014. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons)

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You should do your duty in all things.
You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.
— Robert E. Lee

Several Southern states observe state holidays at this time of year to remember the men who died fighting for the Confederacy during the War Between the States. (more…)

Endicott & Swett, Nullification . . . Despotism (1833). Courtesy of The New York Public Library.

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Classical liberalism tends to get a bad rap in our circles. There are reasons for that, of course. Although it didn’t turn out to be the final word in political theory, or a be-all end-all ideology, there are some valid principles from it which should be salvaged. More to the point, is democracy — or representative government, to be specific — washed up? (more…)

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The South could “win” the war by not losing; the North could win only by winning. — James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom

Like my father before me
I will work the land.
And like my brother above me,
I took a rebel stand.
He was just 18, young and brave,
But a Yankee laid him in his grave. (more…)

Oliver North

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Iran and the Contras

Ronald Reagan cruised to reelection in 1984 on a good economy and his sunny disposition. (more…)

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The United States Supreme Court dealt a blow on Monday to ongoing attempts by the state of Texas to defend its border with Mexico from the droves of foreigners that constantly pour across. The Texas National Guard has been constructing wire barriers along the banks of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, a common entry point for migrants crossing into the state illegally. (more…)

F. O. C. Darley, The Last Words of Captain Nathan Hale, the Hero-Martyr of the American Revolution (1861)

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“There is only personal history, and consequently only personal politics.” — Oswald Spengler[1]

The Leftists have an unending supply of tedious takes in regards to Charlottesville, the Confederacy, and January 6. These usually involve pontificating about the rule of law, our sacred constitutional order, and a more perfect union. If they feel faker than Ron DeSantis’ smile, it’s because they are. (more…)

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Jeff Flynn-Paul
Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World
New York-Nashville: Bombardier Books/Post Hill Press, 2023

. . . [N]early all the stereotypes about American Indians that the Left holds dear are traceable to the naivete of the 1970s progressive movement. Almost all these stereotypes arose in white, middle-class American households; they generally reflect liberal talking points such as environmentalism, anti-capitalism, and the peace movement. (more…)

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Richard Hanania’s The Origins of Woke is Christopher Caldwell’s excellent book, The Age of Entitlement, but in a less sober and more opinionated tone, and with more speculation on what’s to be done about the predicament. While both books get the point across, Hanania’s trying to get several other points across that distract from the central thesis: Our legal system contains a civil rights ratcheting mechanism that requires all corporations and organizations to promote a “Leftist” (anti-Christian, anti-white, anti-male, anti-straight) political agenda. (more…)

Christopher Rufo

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Christopher Rufo is an outspoken conservative critic of Critical Race Theory and the bizarre excesses of “sex ed” in today’s schools. He is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything (New York: Broadside Books, 2023). (more…)