Maryland’s vile handling of the COVID-19 vaccine affords searing lessons in the failure of bureaucratic government or the administrative state. More specifically Montgomery County (MoCo), Maryland’s bedroom community for the federal bureaucracy, exemplifies how America will suffer under one-party Democratic rule. As home to highly paid career bureaucrats and medical and other scientific research, MoCo … Continued
“Many great and good men sufficiently qualified for any task they should undertake, may ever be found, whose ambition would aspire to nothing beyond a seat in Congress, a gubernatorial or a presidential chair; but such belong not to the family of the lion, or the tribe of the eagle.” —Abraham Lincoln, Perpetuation Address (1838) Contemporary … Continued
The Supreme Court has always been an anomaly in our democratic republic. This now-powerful body meets in secret, wears uniforms, and has life tenure. The nine-member court has issued rulings explaining how Americans need to alter their views about everything from sex to taxes, affecting the rights of presidents and of prisoners. Recent Republican nominees … Continued
In a seemingly confusing case involving six separate opinions, the Supreme Court late Friday night invalidated some of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s emergency COVID-19 restrictions concerning houses of worship. Doing so should have followed readily upon December’s Diocese of Brooklyn case, which struck down Governor Andrew Cuomo’s arbitrary and discriminatory church and synagogue restrictions in … Continued
Joe Biden gave one of the most terrifying inaugural addresses in American history. For friends of constitutional government, it is far more disturbing than Franklin Roosevelt’s first inaugural. Clothed with clichés and disguised in dull language, the 20-minute speech bristles with arrogance. What it lacks in charisma it makes up for in its cultish Karenism. … Continued
For all his reputation as erratic, distracted, and impulsive, President Trump’s political focus has been amazingly consistent and the most supportive of the freedoms of the American people of any president since Abraham Lincoln. An early article of mine supporting Trump’s candidacy in March 2016 began by asking, “Is Donald Trump a demagogue or a … Continued
Since our media have insisted that the previous standard for assaults on Washington, D.C. is the British burning late in the War of 1812, let us revisit that carnage. In his biography of the loser President James Madison, Richard Brookhiser describes the “Miltonic” destruction of public buildings, including the White House and Congress. “The White … Continued
It seems from another era, but in the last days of 2020 President Trump issued one of the strangest presidential proclamations in American history honoring St. Thomas Becket on the 850th anniversary of his martyrdom at the hands of King Henry II on December 29, 1170. A distinguished scholar of religion and politics guffawed that … Continued
To understand President Trump’s signing of the latest so-called COVID-19 “stimulus” bill after days of veto threats, we need to understand the critical constitutional history of the Watergate era. Citing the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, Trump declared, “I will sign the Omnibus and Covid package with a strong message that makes clear to Congress … Continued
After completing the article below on Friday, I heard the news that the Supreme Court denied Texas’s lawsuit against four states alleging a violation of Texas voters’ constitutional rights in the November election. Against the denial of standing, Justice Samuel Alio, together with Justice Clarence Thomas, argued the court had no discretion to refuse such … Continued
