The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Government Lies Just Keep On Coming Candidates don’t understand that a truly strong America means fundamental rights and no wars Philip Giraldi The Framers of the United States Constitution understood several things very clearly from their experience as a colonial vassal state with only limited legislative or self-governing authority under the rule of Britain’s King George III. That principle lesson learned, justifying a revolution, was that the leader or ruler of a nation must not be allowed to unilaterally initiate armed conflicts because war is the greatest calamity that can afflict a nation and its people. That was why the US president under the balance of powers had no ability under the Constitution to initiate a war on his or her own authority. It required an act of war approved by Congress with the legislature also providing the funding and most of the manpower through voluntary levies from the state militias as the national army was deliberately small. And why might a...

  On Being a "Threat to Democracy" Power to The People? Donald Jeffries Merriam-Webster defines “democracy” as: “a: Government by the people  especially   :  rule of the majority,  b:  a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.” Well, that sounds good. Do we have a rule of the majority? The majority of Americans, after all, about eighty percent of them, are losing in this rigged economy, and living paycheck to paycheck at best. I don’t think they’re “ruling” anything. We all (well, some of us) know that the 10th Amendment to the Constitution clearly states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Again, sounds good. But when’s the last time you heard about one of our tyrannical judges ...

  Give me Liberty or Give me America 2.0 Some truths are self-evident DONALD JEFFRIES Artwork by Heidi Wurst As I’ve noted before, I was fascinated by history as a very young boy. And no part of history caught my attention like the founding of this nation. The American Revolution, the War for Independence- call it what you will. The Boston Tea Party. The Minutemen. Paul Revere’s midnight ride. The shot heard around the world. I know that our Founders weren’t perfect. Thomas Paine, the brilliant writer who produced  Common Sense,  the pamphlet that helped ignite patriotic fervor in the colonies, wound up hating George Washington, who did indeed seem to have forgotten his invaluable contributions to the movement for independence. Shockingly and inexplicably, the location of most of Paine’s remains are unknown, as I detailed in  Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics: 1776-1963.  Washington’s actions regarding the Whiskey Rebellion besmirch his reputation. He al...

 Thanks to BrahmaFear for recommending this article... Merle Haggard and the Lost “Free Life” BY   JAMES BOVARD Facebook mail President Nixon shaking hands with country western singer Merle Haggard, and sharing a laugh onstage with the Osborne Brothers singers and The Strangers band after their Evening at White House East Room performance on St. Patrick’s Day. March 17, 1973. Photo: White House. “Is the best of the free life behind us now?” Merle Haggard asked in a haunting 1982 country music hit song. Nine years earlier, Haggard had scoffed at potheads and draft dodgers in a White House performance of his song “Okie from Muskogee” for President Richard Nixon. But reflecting widespread loss of faith in the American dream in the 1970s, his “free life” song lamented Nixon’s lies, the Vietnam debacle, and the ravages of inflation. The issue of lost freedoms helped spur me 30 years ago to write a book titled  Lost Rights  chronicling how “Americans’ liberty is perishing ...