Today the President Makes Half as Many Laws as do Congress! What Does the Constitution Say?
By Dr. Harold Pease The Founding Fathers’ concept of separation of powers has been heavily altered the last fifty years. The Constitution allowed only the Legislative Branch to make federal law (Art. I, Sec. I, Clause I). A law’s review by 536...
President’s Latest Executive Order Vastly Empowers Himself. Where is Congress?
By Dr. Harold Pease The most dangerous executive order (hereafter EO) ever written (exempting Franklin Roosevelt’s EO throwing Japanese-Americans into relocation camps against their will in World War II) was EO 12919 of June 3, 1994. By a mere...
“Fast and Furious,” Worse Than Watergate?
By Dr. Harold Pease Imagine being willing to do anything to destroy the Second Amendment to the U. S. Constitution—the one that allows you to defend yourself and resist any government that becomes tyrannical, even our own. Since Americans will not...
Congress and the President Square off on Who Can Initiate War; Sanctity of the Constitution is at Stake
By Dr Harold W. Pease Recent presidents have so mutilated the clear language of the Constitution as to the authority to make war that congressional pushback, even from the weak Congress we now have, was inevitable. That pushback came in a recent...
U.S. Drops to the Tenth Freest Nation on Earth: Now Listed as Mostly Free
By Dr. Harold Pease For nearly two decades the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal have teamed-up tracking and rating the 184 nations of the earth on economic freedom. In their 2012 ratings “Hong Kong and Singapore finished first and...
Government Spying on Your Social Media and the Media Monitoring Initiative
By Dr. Harold Pease Last week a young college student approached me after class with a very disturbing concern. He had just been interrogated by the FBI for making a video three years ago of him exploding a fire cracker and placing the video on...
Straight Thinking on Iran
By Dr. Harold Pease Three of the four remaining Republican presidential candidates and the present occupant of the White House appear to be, or are favorable to, provoking Iran for a response worthy of a preemptive strike. Only Ron Paul, of our...
Saving Medicare?
By Dr. Harold Pease Both parties have succumbed to the temptation of getting elected by promising ever more goodies from the public coffers, irrespective of constitutional limits, and to the point that they have irresponsibly enslaved our children...
Presidents’ Day, What Would Abraham Lincoln Say?
By Dr. Harold Pease President Barack Obama’s favorite president, as is the case with so many Americans, is Abraham Lincoln who shares a national holiday, Presidents Day, with George Washington. But this bond certainly could not be because of shared...