Congress does not want Fiscal Irresponsibility on Ballot
By Harold Pease, Ph. D Who says that bipartisanship does not exist in the Federal Government? In a largely secret and hurriedly framed agreement between President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,…
Supreme Court may yet rule Obamacare unconstitutional
By Harold Pease, Ph. D On October 26, 2015, the Pacific Legal Foundation filed a new challenge with the Supreme Court contending that ObamaCare violates the Constitution that requires all tax-raising bills to originate in the House of…
Constitutionally the House cannot select a non-member Speaker
By Harold Pease Ph. D Perhaps by the time this column is published a new Speaker of the House will have been selected and the issue resolved, for now. At present, with no member of the House wanting the job, the idea of having someone not presently…
What Kevin McCarthy did to Kevin McCarthy
By Harold Pease, Ph. D The fact that my congressman, Kevin McCarthy, could not secure 218 Republican House votes to replace Speaker John A. Boehner, after virtually being nominated by him, did not surprise me—he earned it. He is an extremely…
Allow Teachers to Protect their Students and Themselves
By Dr. Harold Pease One of the revelations that surfaced from the Umpqua Community College Massacre, the worst in Oregon history, was that the deranged gunman, (I join others in refusing to name the killer giving him desired publicity) carried…
Government Shutdown Media Paranoia
By Harold Pease, Ph. D The fear generated by media use of the words “government shutdown” is amazing. The hysteria peddlers using this terminology, and the media that purposely play to it, must know these two words emit such an extreme emotional…
Where Was the Constitution in the Debate?
By Harold Pease, Ph. D Eleven debaters gathered at the Reagan Library September 16, 2015, to share their plans and visions for our future. Each extolled the virtues of Ronald Reagan and claimed to be more Reagan-like than any of their competitors….
The Progressive Movement and the Constitution
By Harold Pease, Ph. D We have spent some time on how the Progressive Movement hurt our black communities and how some of their leaders have provided solutions to rescue their people—not the race baiters selected by the media to be the only black…
Black Solutions for Black Problems
By Harold Pease, Ph. D We recently looked at the well-meaning progressive policies of the last fifty years, notably welfare, that have done much to return our black brother to a slavery of dependence and seemingly to set our black communities on…