This country’s political system was established with the principle of “checks and balances” built within it. According to the Founding Fathers each of the three branches of government were supposed to check the others. You have the power of Presidential vetoes of Legislative acts and Congressional overrides of those vetoes. It …
I received the following email from CaptElaine, one of the registered members of MyStraightTalk.com. This is excellent. (Please note she is quoting an article published in Canada. _______ Get out your copy of the U. S. Constitution and read it for yourselves. The quoted Article III is accurate. We should …
“Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.” Thomas Jefferson (Emphases added) Today this statement by Mr. Jefferson seems a bit odd, but it gains a proper perspective when you consider it within the context it was …
Resurrecting the WHAT? No, I didn’t misspell “squids,” although I was one at one point in my life. (For those of you who don’t know, sailors are sometimes called “squids” in a very derogatory manner.) David, have you totally gone off the deep end? Well, for many years now I …