Who would have ever thought Justices Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor would share an opinion on the court. Yet this group formed the dissenting opinion in the controversial DNA testing case recently ruled on by the Supreme Court. But, then again, whoever thought that WWTFT would sing the praises of an articlewritten in the New Republic .. strange times indeed.   Read the rest of this entry »

For those on the left, only quick answers will do. The left panders to the worst inclinations of human nature and seeks to avoid that which requires effort and discipline, like the grooming of character, adherence to a moral code, development of patience and hard work, etc. Instead. the answer is one enormous get rich quick scheme. Anything goes. And when the consequences of a profligate lifestyle become manifest, the answer is - we must pass a law against those consequences!   Read the rest of this entry »

Progressives have a superiority complex. Progressives claim that society is steadily progressing, becoming smarter and smarter, and that old social mores are outdated and must constantly be replaced as people journey ever closer to perfection. That's what they claim. But it's not really what they believe. What they really believe in is their own superiority and that the benighted masses cannot be entrusted with their own lives. Only they, the enlightened, can cure social ills, by removing choice and forcing people to make the decisions that progressives deem right.   Read the rest of this entry »

The great American experiment in liberty worked for two reasons. James Madison and John Adams explained one of them: "We have staked the future of American civilization upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." Madison. John Adams put it this way: "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."   Read the rest of this entry »

Some thoughts on the power, use, and subversion of the meanings of words.   Read the rest of this entry »

Those of us who wanted red meat were disappointed with Governor Romney’s performance in the third and last presidential debate. It seemed he missed the opportunity to follow up on the administration’s vulnerabilities. Even Charles Krauthammer, the most cerebral of commentators, appeared disappointed that Benghazi was not on the menu. Although some viewer’s angst was so great it required leaving the room a couple of times, the governor’s strategy posed a much bigger problem for the president.   Read the rest of this entry »

William Voegeli destroys two Leftist authors in reviewing their new books. He takes them apart methodically. Along the way he explains where they are wrong and why.   Read the rest of this entry »

The Spring 2012 issue of The Claremont Review of Books features an essay by John Marini in which he explains this distinction between a constitution and a government. Marini’s thesis is that “constitutionalism as a theoretical doctrine is no longer meaningful in our politics.” Like most of the essays featured in the CRB, this one was thought provoking. The essay is quite extensive in its scope and depth. We will look at one aspect that caught this writer’s attention: Our Constitution is not our government.   Read the rest of this entry »

Here is a look at one aspect of the debate between the Federalists and anti-Federalists - the power of taxation.   Read the rest of this entry »

As for WWTFT, we’ve never taken a position one way or another on where Obama was born. To us, it seemed a distraction and a sideshow, at best another symptom of the MSM’s stolid determination to avoid even the pretense of vetting Obama. Regardless of Obama's birth place, there is a larger point that continues to be ignored by the MSM.   Read the rest of this entry »