Federalism Follow-up
I know what you’re thinking. “After those three posts in that series (somewhere around 12,000 words, in total), you’re writing another piece on federalism?” Why, yes. Yes I am. And, if you haven’t seen the others, you should read Part 1 (Context), and Part 2 (Theory), and, most importantly, Part 3 (Practice). Based on the [...]
Federalism: In Context, In Theory, and In Practice – Part 3
Part 3 – Practice This series began with a lengthy article exposing the latest attempt to circumvent the Constitution, under the rubric of “Progressive Federalism”. Another in-depth piece was posted yesterday, attempting to explain what Founding-era federalism actually is, as opposed to what we’ve been so carefully taught to believe. With that foundation laid down, [...]
Federalism: In Context, In Theory, and In Practice – Part 2
Part 2: In Theory In Part One of this series, I laid out the case that federalism has been widely misconstrued, mercilessly ridiculed, and meticulously bastardized throughout the 20th century. This has culminated, in the past two years, with Heather Gerken’s “progressive federalism” lunacy (which I exposed in gory detail in that piece). The fact [...]
(Power) Binge And (Threat) Purge
For the last six months here at The Trenches (and for many years before that, elsewhere), I have been sounding the alarm about those in the ranks of the GOP whose main intent is to steer it away from its creed. Their reasons for doing so have been exposed and demonstrated numerous times, and I’ll [...]
Of Penumbras, Patriotism, and Paradigms – Part 4
In the previous three installments in this series, I pointed out the aggressive ways in which Progressivism has insinuated its destructive ends into our society. In Part 1, I wrote about its deleterious effects on our courts. In Part 2, I explored the curious reactions some had to those court decisions. And, in Part 3, [...]
If At First You Don’t… Secede?
In my original post-election article (WTF Happened Last Night?), I dealt mostly with the “conservative” echo-chamber’s gentrified punditry class and their misguided Chicken Little reactions to the election. And the subsequent “silver lining” argument from some of these gum-flappers has been just as hollow in the last ten days as it was after Chief Justice [...]
WTF Happened Last Night?!
(Or, “Why didn’t our dumb asses anticipate the utterly predictable?”) In case you hadn’t noticed (from the massive selloff on Wall Street today), there was a pretty big election yesterday. President Barack Obama was granted another 4 years in the Oval Office. The Democrats retained their majority in the Senate, as well. The reaction in [...]
Reflection, Remembrance, and Renewed Resolve
As I write this, it is 11 years, to the minute, since hijacked United Airlines flight 175 slammed into the World Trade Center’s South Tower. I watched it happen, live on ABC, eyes still blurred from sleep, half-thinking it was some bizarre nightmare still playing out in the last few minutes of my slumber. But [...]
Are You Even Paying Attention?
Drudge has posted a Washington Post article where Bob Woodward recounts the thinking, negotiations and brinksmanship that led to the last budget deal and its increase of the national credit card limit / debt ceiling. You will recall that Standard & Poors was unimpressed by both the process and result. They downgraded the US credit [...]