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United nations Arms Trade Treaty: your guns, their target: the UN Arms Trade Treaty backed by the Obama administration grants to the UN the powers to both control and eliminate the possession of guns in the United States.	Cover story	May 6, 2013	4281
Gun past meets present: right-wing political pundits have been mocked by the left for comparing present gun control schemes to those used by the Nazis to ensure a passive populace. You decide.		Mar 18, 2013	3103
How the Compact for America threatens the Constitution: the constitutional convention proposed by the Compact for America initiative would pose an unacceptably high risk of damage to the Constitution.	Viewpoint essay	Jan 21, 2013	4615
Trans-Pacific Partnership: secret surrender of sovereignty: Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, which subordinate American law to international tribunals, are being conducted in secret--for U.S. citizens and politicians, not corporations.		Nov 19, 2012	3752
States and statements on NDAA: politicians in Rhode Island, Utah, and Arizona are helping to pave the way to protect citizens' rights that were usurped via the national defense authorization Act.	Interview	May 21, 2012	2630
JUST BLAME JAMES: William J. Watkins explains why the common belief that the Supreme Court has the last say about the constitutionality of our laws is wrong--and why people have the last say.	Book review	May 21, 2012	1544
Social spying: the U.S. government has given itself permission to spy on citizens via social networking sites, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. It is especially interested in journalists.		Feb 20, 2012	2640
Belligerent Americans: the U.S. Congress has voted to allow the U.S. military to arrest Americans who are "belligerent" toward the United States and incarcerate them without trial. Worried yet?		Jan 9, 2012	3031
Republican hopefuls speak: at the 2011 Republican Leadership Conference, presidential aspirants firmed up their talking points that will soon be heard by all. Some of their promises are troubling.	Conference news	Jul 18, 2011	2830
The Establishment Clause: no aspect of American constitutional liberty is more misunderstood, misapplied, and manipulated than the First Amendment's defense of religious freedom.		Jul 4, 2011	2568
10 point refutation: many self-professed constitutionalists are pushing for a constitutional convention, proposed by the states, despite the dangers of such a plan.		Apr 4, 2011	2525
Treason, defined and enforced: calls for charges of treason have of late been hurled with abandon - against people such as Julian Assange and President Obama - but are they justified?		Feb 7, 2011	2846
112th Congress: who will adhere to the Constitution? Though a few Congressmen were elected on the Tea Party platform and Republicans are talking about limiting spending, little will change without voters' continued efforts.		Jan 24, 2011	3875
17th amendment mudslinging: when senatorial candidate Joe Miller called for repealing the 17th amendment, which calls for the direct election of senators, he was chastised, but he was correct.		Nov 22, 2010	2478
"If this be treason ...": when it looked as if England's new Stamp Act would be met with a meek response, Patrick Henry led the campaign against it, stirring colonists against the king.		Oct 11, 2010	2232
Automatic citizenship: the 14th Amendment is cited as proof that anyone born in the United States is automatically endowed with citizenship, but that amendment was intended to prohibit such an interpretation and safeguard the value of citizenship.		Sep 13, 2010	2384
Arizona: an allegory ... and the reality: the arguments against the Arizona immigration law may have some well-meaning advocates, but when the case is made for the law, it seems the state had little other choice.		Aug 16, 2010	3370
Tea Party a brewing movement: the Tea Party Movement is in its youth, but with its growing strength apparent, various people, entities, and groups are trying both to diminish it and control it.	Cover story	Apr 12, 2010	3289
Choosing choice candidates: in the absence of a firm hierarchy and party leaders, the Tea Party does not endorse specific candidates, but Tea Parties do expect candidates to hold certain positions.		Apr 12, 2010	925
Weasel words.	Column	Mar 1, 2010	814
Insecure Americans: after 9/11, "homeland security" became a rationale for dispensing with much convenience in airports and fourth amendment guarantees, but U.S. security is still haphazard.		Feb 15, 2010	3428
Fishy facts about Flight 253: American intelligence agencies initially denied holding a suspected accomplice of the underwear bomber, but they have come clean--about that aspect of the bombing case.		Feb 15, 2010	1555
Major Nidal Malik Hasan: an officer and a jihadist: since 9/11, numerous Muslims living in america have taken the path of violent jihadism, a path also followed by U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan, who reasonably should have been thwarted.		Jan 18, 2010	2040
Forgotten influences on the founders: the Founding Fathers' success at designing a Republic with safeguards to prevent citizens' loss of liberty and to prevent federal despotism was the result of others' insights.		Jan 4, 2010	2748
Obamacare and the demise of federalism: the Constitution and the 10th Amendment delineate the responsibilities and limitations of the federal government. Where do we stand?		Nov 23, 2009	2262
Faith in the face of skepticism: the Pilgrims, the Indians, and the truth about the first Thanksgiving.		Nov 23, 2009	2359
Brown Brokers prisoner--for-oil deal: England's Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he's innocent, but evidence is mounting that he played an important role in freeing the terrorist who brought down a plane over Scotland.		Oct 12, 2009	3089
Figuring out the founders: from the masses of material about the founding of our country, four recent books are chosen for review, owing to either their scholarship or the reputation of their authors.	Book review	Oct 12, 2009	2346
Are you the enemy? Under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, you could be. The Military Commissions Act of 2006 allows the Executive Branch to circumvent the Constitution, endangering the due process of law for all Americans, not just terrorists.	Cover story	Oct 30, 2006	2431
A son's agonizing choice: Edmund Randolph chose a path that tragically led him away from his father, but toward becoming a key player in the formation of a new nation.	Biography	Sep 18, 2006	2815
Presidential power grab: President Bush has been quietly attaching pronouncements to the bills he signs into law. These signing statements amount to a grab for legislative power belonging to Congress.		Aug 21, 2006	2246
Scholar, soldier, statesman: if James Madison represents the cool, contemplative head of the early republic's body politic, then Alexander Hamilton is undoubtedly its passionate, fiercely palpitating heart.	Biography	Mar 20, 2006	3020
Lessons of the Peloponnesian War: although the current "war on terror" and the Peloponnesian War in ancient Greece are separated by over 2,400 years, their similarities are striking, instructive, and cautionary.		Jan 9, 2006	2641
Wise man among wise men: James Wilson was so knowledgeable on the subject of government that he was generally regarded as the most erudite of all the learned Founding Fathers.		Dec 12, 2005	1233
Debunking the Da Vinci Hoax: filled with errors, falsehoods, and blatant, anti-Christian bias, The Da Vinci Code has received phenomenal promotion from the major secular media.		Mar 21, 2005	2136
Marriage and the law: understood properly, the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution actually protects the right of states to refuse to recognize same-sex "marriages" legitimized in other states.		Mar 7, 2005	1666
The hemispheric security puzzle: invoking the fear of terrorism, the Power Elite is moving to build a "security perimeter" encompassing the entire Western Hemisphere.		Jan 24, 2005	1769
Bush's "striking shift" on global warming.		Oct 18, 2004	628
Are you on the terrorist watch list? Sen. Ted Kennedy and 350 other Americans have been delayed or prevented from boarding flights after their names mistakenly appeared on the terrorist "no-fly" list.		Sep 20, 2004	575
The Founding Fathers & the classics: the stream of classical history was one of the primary tributaries of American political thought at the time of the Founding.		Sep 20, 2004	2954
Deliberate decline: the jobs needed to live the American Dream are fast disappearing--not because of unrestrained market forces but because of government policies including NAFTA.		Sep 6, 2004	2250
Penman of the Revolution: as the author of many of our nation's most fundamental documents, including the Articles of Confederation, John Dickinson was one of America's greatest Founding Fathers.		Jul 26, 2004	2412