Bryan Pease – SD City Council Candidate And Animal Rights Zealot Violates...
What happens when one lefty, like Sherri Lightner on the San Diego city council, is not lefty enough? Find an Animal Liberal Front sympathizer such as Bryan Pease (who to this day will not confess on...
View ArticleOf Penumbras, Patriotism, and Paradigms
Part One: Of Penumbras Recently, the United States Supreme Court had two huge opportunities to reaffirm (or, rather, re-establish) our founding-era philosophy of Federalism. In both instances, they...
View ArticleOn “Infighting”
I’ve heard certain people bemoaning “infighting” for a long time. Years, in fact. I opined on it, at length, back in 2010, and I’d urge everyone to take a look at that piece, which is still relevant...
View ArticleAbout That RNC Powergrab…
(Based on my Hump Day Lunch Break Rant – Twitter hashtag #HDLBR) As a precursor to today’s Hump Day Lunch Break Rant, you should read these items: On Power, A Three-Part Series, & On “Infighting.”...
View ArticleYeah, That’s the Ticket! (Not So Fast…)
The base is fired up! The fundraising numbers are astounding! The turnout at campaign stops has increased twenty-fold! The RNC Convention is going to be a time to party like it’s 1999! All these...
View ArticleWTF 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...
View ArticleChris Christie, Regionalism, and His Progressive Agenda
“We’ve gone astray from first principles. We’ve lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything we’ve accomplished. Government’s first duty is to...
View ArticleOf 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...
View Article(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...
View ArticleFederalism: 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...
View ArticleFilibusters and (f)ederalism
After finally getting a chance, over this past weekend, to listen to Senator Rand Paul’s entire epic 12+ hour filibuster, several things jumped out at me that haven’t been widely reported. So, I’d...
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