A friendly Reminder

WHOSE SIDE ARE WE ON? by Michael Peroutka   You are the new football coach and I am one of your more talented players.  After practicing hard all week you put me in as your starting quarterback.  On the very first series of downs, I throw a pass directly to the middle linebacker who intercepts and takes the ball to the end zone.   Well, now we are down seven to zip, but you pat me on the back and encourage me as I trot back out to the huddle. On first and ten from our own 20

UNLAWFUL ACTS OF CONGRESS ARE NOT BINDING ON THE STATES by Michael Peroutka   When the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Federal Government and against the State of Florida regarding the imposition of Obamacare many people seemed very surprised. But should it really surprise us when the Supreme Court (or any federal court) sides with the Federal government…especially when the question at stake is the authority of the federal government? Isn’t this like a baseball game wher

NO JESUS, NO RIGHTS by Michael Peroutka   Imagine you were playing football against a very determined opponent and a new rule was introduced.  According to this new rule of play, your team could actually never have possession of the football.    Everytime you either received a kick-off or recovered a fumble or intercepted a pass or even when you took over on downs, play would stop immediately and possession of the ball would be returned to the other team.   In this scenario

LOOKING FOR A LAW ABIDING GOVERNOR by Michael Peroutka     Unless Mr. Brian Murphy can pull an upset against former governor Bob Ehrlich in the upcoming republican primary, the track records of the presumptive major party candidates for Mary land Governor present a dismal picture for lawful government in Maryland.       The highest law that governs Maryland is, of course, God’s Law. Neither Mr. O’Malley nor Mr. Ehrlich, however, have obeyed Biblical limits on civil governmen

GOVERNMENT AUTHORIZED CHILD ABUSE by Michael Peroutka For years now, the sodomite lobby in Annapolis has been desperately seeking to redefine the God-given and God-ordained institution of marriage.  Now the people of Maryland will cast their votes to approve or to disapprove of this foolishness. During this entire time, the sodomite strategy is to appeal to your sense of fairness.  “Why can’t we just treat sodomites fairly and let them have social benefits that real married

“IT JUST AIN’T SO” by Michael Peroutka A man known as Josh Billings, one of the leading American humorists during the second half of the nineteenth century, once said this: “It ain’t what a man don’t know that makes him a fool…It’s all the things he does know…that just ain’t so.” I think we can heartily agree that it’s a problem when a man or woman takes actions based on beliefs that are flawed.  It’s really a recipe for disaster. The same is true for a culture and its gov

ACTORS ROMNEY AND RYAN by Michael Peroutka   In a recent commentary, I labeled Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan as “actors” because they are selling the illusion that they have a different political philosophy than the current regime in the White House. In support of this, I pointed out that Paul Ryan has voted for a long list of “welfare state” programs that violate the Constitution. And I pointed out that his running mate, Mr. Romney, has been cited as the virtual inventor of Obam

How Shall We Vote? #1 by Michael Peroutka We’ve been talking now for a few weeks about THE AMERICAN VIEW of law and government.  We’ve been trying to understand the principles and precepts that undergird our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.  We can see clearly that our federal and state governments have in many cases abandoned these principles.  And we are anxious to do whatever we can to restore the Republic.   Oftentimes we feel troubled, sometimes angry an

IS THE PRESIDENT A MURDERER? by Michael Peroutka In a recent piece I stated that Barak Obama had declared himself to be a murderer.  This offended some folks as perhaps too harsh a word.  But I was under the impression that putting a bullet through the eye of a man is, to say the least, a harsh thing to do.   I was speaking legally, of course, and I fairly labeled my statements as my own legal opinion.  I was just trying to apply the Constitution – the Supreme Law of the Land

Teacher's Bible Cookies Unconstitutional? NO! by Jake MacAulay I regret to inform you that insanity is once again being visited on American youth in government schools.   A California teacher is being called into question for allegedly handing out “Bible cookies” as rewards and promoting an after-school Bible club he helps to facilitate.   John Alameda, a teacher at New Vision High School in Stockton, California, is being accused of “unlawful proselytization,” according to a

WHAT WILL YOU UNDO FOR ME? by Michael Peroutka In his book titled “What I Saw in America, G.K. Chesterton wrote the following: We are perpetually being told in the papers that what is wanted is a great man who will do things.  What is wanted is a great man who will undo things; and that will be a real test of greatness. These days, in my home state of Maryland, and probably in your home state as well, this is precisely what we need.  And we should follow Chesterton’s advice m