A friendly Reminder

Can You Read, Do You Read? by Jake MacAulay Part of my work here at the Institute on the Constitution involves making presentations across the country about matters of law and government and the Constitution. Sometimes, I’ll ask the members of the audience to raise their hand if they have ever read a Supreme Court opinion.  Almost always there are no hands raised. Do you find it curious that almost no one reads that which almost everyone considers to be the “law of the land”

Did We Forget about Memorial Day Already? by Jake MacAulay What if I asked you, “Do you feel patriotic paying taxes to fund the central government’s nationalization of the banks, the insurance industry, the automobile industry, the health care industry, and now local police forces or the use of the American military for unconstitutional and immoral, wasteful wars for empire?” I am assuming that if you are a patriot–a genuine American of good will– you would answer, “ No .” Wh

An Open Letter to Rep. Steve Cohen: Your Denial of God in the Oath Disqualifies You From Office by Jake MacAulay Sacred Writ guarantees the nation whose God is the Lord will be “blessed”. Thomas Jefferson testified: “Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?” Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen  tells us : “I think God belongs in religious institutions: in temple, in church, in cathedral, in mosque — but

The Make-Believe World of a Transgender Powerlifter by Jake MacAulay Theblaze.com reported this week “Powerlifter Mary Gregory — a biological male who competes as a female — made headlines last month after breaking multiple women’s powerlifting records, which sparked widespread outrage.” But after a review, the Raw Powerlifting Federation has stripped the weightlifter of the titles because they determined Gregory was not eligible to compete as a woman. Some things are real.

Is the Electoral College Worth Keeping? by Jake MacAulay “It unites in an eminent degree all the advantages,” Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist No. 68, “the union of which was to be wished for.” As discussions begin again on the next presidential election, the Electoral College debate has been rekindled. I find it necessary to get ahead of the curve and discuss the facts about the Electoral College and why our Founders created it.  In their infinite wisdom, the Unite

The Movie Unplanned Gives Insight to Dehumanizing Acts Like Sri Lanka by Jake MacAulay What do chattel slavery, the Nazi holocaust, global genocide, and the bombings in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday have in common? By dehumanizing the victims, these horrific acts become tolerable and unobjectionable. The plantation owner thought the African was not fully human; the Nazi thought the Jew was not human; one political faction thought the same of their rival faction; and terrorists b

Are Socialists Really Thieves? by Jake MacAulay In light of so many eager Socialists serving in or running for office, I feel the need to talk about Socialism.  The essence of Socialism is theft.  Contrary to Socialism, in America we have an absolute God-given right to property given to us by our Creator. We can find this right recorded in the sacred text: “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and ha

Is Christianity the Religion of American? by Jake MacAulay Last week,  we discussed the first Muslim representative elected to the Pennsylvania legislature who demanded an apology from another member because they began their session with a prayer to Jesus Christ, calling it ‘highly offensive.’” I received a message from a reader, who I believe to be sincere, stating, “The Founders NEVER intended to favor Christianity over any other religion… None of the founders were explicit

Muslim Representative Calls Prayer to Jesus in House Chambers Highly Offensive by Jake MacAulay This week, The Blaze reported,  “The first Muslim representative elected to the Pennsylvania legislature is demanding an apology from another member who began their session with a prayer to Jesus Christ, calling it ‘highly offensive.’”  The Pennsylvania State Democratic party  called  the prayer an “Islamophobic message,” while Party Whip Jordan Harris shrieked: Today, we saw relig

Can Liberty Survive in American Public Education? by Jake MacAulay Last week we discussed The Un-American Education System in America , and I received a lot of feedback. Among those responding was Rich, who I quote: As a retired public high school physical sciences teacher for 34 years, I couldn’t agree with you more. I used to start my unit on the origin of life and earth history by asking the students if the ideas about the origin of life and the origin of humans mattered m

The Un-American Education System in America by Jake MacAulay Have you ever asked the question “Just what makes you an American?”   I believe it is ascribing to the doctrine of what the U.S. Code calls the “organic law” of the United States: The Declaration of Independence.   This amazing document contains the ideology “that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happ

Thanks to Public Schools, Socialism is On the Rise by Jake MacAulay To quote founding father Thomas Jefferson, “The Constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.” He also said about America, “With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing or that ever did exist.”   Statesman Daniel Webster made the claim, “Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands