Category: Constitution

Culture in America – Where It all Begins… and Ends. Part 2/2

by Ozymandias | May 8, 2020 | Children, Constitution, Education, Entertainment, Libertarianism, Liberty, Markets, Opinion, Rant, Society

What we believe in any given culture, small or large – our collective values – what we revere, is exactly what we will propagate and get.

The Essential Way to Destroy Rights

by Ozymandias | Apr 14, 2020 | Constitution, Federal Power, Liberty, Regulation, Rule of Law

It’s business as usual for me and mine.

Chapter 24: After Action

by Ozymandias | Feb 4, 2020 | Big Government, Constitution, DoD Anthrax Vaccine, Executive Branch, Federal Power, History, Military, National Security, Regulation, Rule of Law

I feel compelled to offer a kind of “after action report” or lessons learned section on the AVIP.

Chapter 23: Conviction

by Ozymandias | Jan 28, 2020 | Constitution, DoD Anthrax Vaccine, Executive Branch, Federal Power, History, Liberty, Military, National Security, Regulation, Rule of Law

When Court ended that day, I knew that either we got a stay by the next morning or David Ponder and Jason Stonewall would be going to jail.

Chapter 21: Back to Okinawa

by Ozymandias | Jan 14, 2020 | Constitution, DoD Anthrax Vaccine, Executive Branch, Federal Power, Liberty, Military, National Security, Politics, Rule of Law

At Dulles, I left without saying more than a brief goodbye.

Making War Ethically: To Bomb or Not to Bomb

by Ozymandias | Jan 10, 2020 | Constitution, Foreign Policy, Military, National Security, Politics, Rule of Law

There are entire degrees to be obtained in studying and arguing about theories of warfare, what constitutes sufficient causus belli, and under what circumstances nuclear and/or total warfare might even be considered.

Just So You Know Where Your Money Is Going…

by Gojira | Dec 31, 2019 | Admin, Big Government, Constitution, Education, Federal Power, First Amendment, Libertarianism, Society

An Accounting of What We’re Doing with Your Money

Chapter 19: Working Behind the Scenes

by Ozymandias | Dec 17, 2019 | Constitution, DoD Anthrax Vaccine, Executive Branch, Federal Power, Military, National Security, Politics, Regulation, Rule of Law, Science

I took in the room with a glance. There were two groups of people – ours and theirs.

On the Composition of the US Military and Being a World Power

by Ozymandias | Dec 13, 2019 | Congress, Constitution, Executive Branch, Federal Power, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Military, National Security, Politics, Society

I’ll let the Glibertariat hash out the details and point out the flaws in my thinking in the comments.

Chapter 18: The Walking Wounded

by Ozymandias | Dec 10, 2019 | Constitution, DoD Anthrax Vaccine, Drugs, Executive Branch, Military, National Security, Regulation, Rule of Law, Science

Coincidentally, in the first week of October 2000, the House Committee on Government Reform was holding another hearing on the anthrax vaccine program.

Term Limits, Part III (Fin)

by Ozymandias | Dec 3, 2019 | Big Government, Congress, Constitution, Politics, Regulation

Term limits has been an issue many times in the past. It typically draws favorable polling from both sides of the political aisle.

Term Limits, Part II

by Ozymandias | Nov 26, 2019 | Big Government, Congress, Constitution, Federal Power, Politics, Regulation

Every problem, no matter how small or inconsequential, can never fail to be magnified, exaggerated, or – with a suitably agenda-driven Media – simply concocted out of whole cloth by partisan hacks and flacks….

Term Limits, Part I

by Ozymandias | Nov 19, 2019 | Big Government, Constitution, Federal Power, First Amendment, Markets, Politics, Regulation, Society

All attempts at Campaign Finance Reform in these United States have failed.

Chapter 15 – The Stay

by Ozymandias | Nov 12, 2019 | Big Government, Congress, Constitution, DoD Anthrax Vaccine, Executive Branch, Federal Power, History, Liberty, Military, National Security, Regulation, Rule of Law, Science

From the beginning I’ve had the sense that they have mischarged the offense, perhaps intentionally.

Chapter 14 – Secretary Cohen’s “Four Points”

by Ozymandias | Nov 5, 2019 | Big Government, Congress, Constitution, DoD Anthrax Vaccine, Drugs, Executive Branch, Federal Power, History, Liberty, Licensing, Military, National Security, Politics, Regulation, Rule of Law, Science

In December of 1997, the anthrax vaccine manufacturer was shut down and could not manufacture anything related to the AVA.

Letter to the Editor

by Fourscore | Oct 21, 2019 | Big Government, Constitution, Liberty, Markets, Taxes

I was going through some personal papers and found this copy of a letter I had written nearly 30 years ago.

Chapter 11: United States v. Stonewall, July 2000

by Ozymandias | Oct 15, 2019 | Congress, Constitution, DoD Anthrax Vaccine, Executive Branch, Federal Power, Fourth Amendment, Liberty, Military, National Security, Regulation, Rule of Law, Science

I had defended Marines and sailors facing a lot more time or charged with much more serious crimes, yet I was more nervous than I had ever been before walking into court.

The Glibening, Part Ten: The Triumph of Preet Bharara

by Tonio | Oct 4, 2019 | Constitution, Federal Power, Fiction, First Amendment, Satire

Fortune had smiled upon him unexpectedly. At that very moment his top man was strolling through the offices of Thought! magazine tagging along with NYPD on a crazy girl call that had come in that morning during the taskforce meeting. No warrant needed. Even if they were squeaky clean, and he knew they weren’t, NYPD would manage to find something.

Checks and Balances

by Jarflax | Sep 24, 2019 | Congress, Constitution, History

Civics 101: The United States of America is a Constitutional Republic, set up as a federation, with the federal government divided into three branches with separated, enumerated powers, and additional specific limits on the exercise of those enumerated powers.

Chapter 7 – Congress Acts: 10 U.S.C. §1107

by Ozymandias | Sep 17, 2019 | Big Government, Congress, Constitution, Deep State, DoD Anthrax Vaccine, History, Liberty, Military, National Security, Politics, Rule of Law, Science

More can and must be done, however, to rebuild trust, to avoid repeating past mistakes, and to...

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