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DANGEROUS MAKE BELIEVE by Michael Peroutka Some things are real.  Some things are make believe.  Knowing the difference is critically, crucially important. If I told you that you could safely drive off a 100 foot cliff at 80 miles an hour because your car would simply float lazily to the earth, I would be telling you something that is not real.  If you followed my advice you would be acting very dangerously and suffer great harm – probably fatal harm. The example I just used

LOCAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT TAKE THE CHEESE          by Michael Peroutka Wherever we look today we find corruption.  This is not surprising in a culture that has rejected God as the Source of Law and Government.  Indeed, at every level of government, our laws are being broken by the very people we entrust with the power to enforce them. And with each immoral expansion of government power, we are left with less liberty.  Thomas Jefferson said, “The price of liberty is eternal

VOTING FOR THE AMERICAN VIEW by Michael Peroutka   If you are a student of THE AMERICAN VIEW of law and government -- if you have given effort to understanding the principles and precepts that undergird our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution -- then you are aware that our federal and state governments have in many cases abandoned these principles.  You are probably properly concerned and perhaps anxious to do whatever you can to restore the Republic.   It’s natu

ENFORCING THE CONSTITUTION BY RESISTING THE TYRANT by Michael  Peroutka The Constitution is not a self-enforcing document.  The words of the document will not leap off the page and validate themselves.  If the Constitution is to be kept alive, someone must do the enforcing. “But Michael,” you say, “isn’t that what government officials are supposed to do?” No. Government officials are only a part of the constitutional equation, and they are much the smaller part. The greater p

Teacher’s Bible Cookies Unconstitutional? NO! by Michael Peroutka   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,” accordi

THANKFUL BIRTHDAY by Jake MacAulay Today is my birthday.  Which got me to thinking about, well… my birth. It just so happens that I was born a white male.  I didn’t have any choice in the matter.  I also didn’t have any say in the place or the time of my birth.  Come to think of it, I didn’t get to choose my hair color or my facial features, either.  If I could’ve chosen my looks I certainly could have been a little more careful.  But I didn’t get to choose these things.  And

LAWLESS GUN CONTROL MEASURES ARE NOT LAW AND SHOULD NOT BE OBEYED by Michael Peroutka   Displaying its contempt for the right of the people of Maryland to defend their lives and their liberties, the general assembly of Maryland has enacted what our Founders, in the Declaration of Independence, referred to as “pretended legislation”.   This “pretended legislation” which is intended to take effect on October 1, 2013, infringes on the right to keep and bear arms in many obvious

MICHAEL NEW IS A HERO by Michael Peroutka A reporter got into some hot water recently apparently for reporting his opinion about the word “hero”.  Chris Hayes of MSNBC said he was uncomfortable with referring to war dead as heroes, since the word is rhetorically proximate with justifications for more war. Despite the fact that he clearly labeled this as his opinion, he has been vilified by many on the right as disrespectful, out of touch, and unpatriotic. From a legal and con

RESPONSE TO LEGAL OPINION  FINAL by Michael Peroutka The piece below relates to some recent efforts on behalf of residents of Spokane Washington. I am publishing this in the hope that it may prove helpful for other counties as well.  This information was delivered to the Commissioners of Spokane County on Friday, May 8,2020   MEMORANDUM IN RESPONSE TO LEGAL OPINION PROVIDED by the CHIEF CIVIL DEPUTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY for SPOKANE COUNTY TO COMMISSIONERS OF SPOKANE COUNTY, W

INTERESTING TIMES by Michael Peroutka We live in interesting times. Just a month ago, our attention was on March Madness. Now we are pre-occupied with Covid-19 and “Social distancing”. This has happened very quickly and the reaction of many government officials is to jettison the rule of law. Regrettably, under the banner of emergency, many Governors are decimating the rights and liberties which they are sworn to defend. What is missing from the public discourse is any refere

MESSAGE TO CALIFORNIA SHERIFFS, POLICE and OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS by Michael Peroutka (Almost all of us know someone who is in law enforcement -- whether it’s someone in our family, neighborhood, church, etc. The message below can used as written or be tailored and sent or given to law enforcement folks you know.  Feel free to make it your own message.)   This message is intended for SHERIFFS, POLICE OFFICERS AND OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS. Our State Constitutio

THE TWILIGHT ZONE by Michael Peroutka   The recent debate between the president and state governors could have been moderated by Rod Serling because it’s right out of the “Twilight Zone”   In a recent tweet, the president said that he has sole authority to “reopen the economy.”   This brought a strong reaction from several governors who claimed that the Constitution gives them the authority to “reopen the economy”.   Sorry, but there exists no Constitutional authority to “ c