The Secret Societies of U. S. Presidents
By Dr. Harold Pease Time magazine’s April 23, 2012, edition featured a cover story called “The World’s Most Exclusive Club: The Secret Society of Presidents” by authors Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy. The cover shows a shot of President Barack Obama…
Is the Constitution Relevant to Local Government?
By Dr. Harold Pease Several years ago, at a public debate for county supervisor in a California community, the public was invited to offer questions in writing. I did so and watched the monitor of the debate, with a puzzled look on his face,…
Should Canadian Legals Get Same Education Taxpayer Benefits as Mexico’s Illegals?
Dr. Harold Pease Most know that the Dream Act came to us in two phases, the first many years ago, and the second initiated into law just last January. The initial process was to allow illegals to enter U. S. colleges, after high school graduation,…
Why Do Nine Justices Have the Right to Void the Will of the Majority?
By Dr. Harold Pease In light of the President’s recent concern, as expressed in the Wall Street Journal, that it would be “an unprecedented, extraordinary step” for the Supreme Court to “overturn a law [i.e., the Affordable Care Act] that was…
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…
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…