There’s a basic difference in the traditions of political science between “authoritarians” and “totalitaritarians.” I fear an increasing number of my fellow Americans are, at heart, becoming totalitarians.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-07-08 02:52:592016-04-11 10:59:09The New Totalitarians Are Here
The flagrant duplicity of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Supreme Court decisions this term should render his opinions as lawfully binding as a sermon from Barney Frank. In other words: they are bloviating examples of politics before the rule of law.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-07-07 03:35:032016-04-11 10:59:12Justice Kennedy’s Naked Politics and the Hypocrisy of the Court
At the AIPAC Annual Policy Conference in Washington, DC, in March, Samantha avowed, “It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand, and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.” But now, she’s reversed her perspective.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-07-06 03:03:132016-04-11 10:59:17Will Samantha Power Be the First American UN Ambassador to Abandon Israel?
The shunning of Trump is in response to his uh, memorable presidential announcement that included comments about the alleged criminality of Mexican immigrants that were typically crude – but not all untrue.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-07-03 03:58:362016-04-11 10:59:21Trump Seems to Really be Running and, By the Way, What he Said About Mexicans Wasn’t All Inaccurate
While I participate in elections for our national representation, I certainly don’t believe that we have much influence on what goes on in Washington, D.C. At the State level, we can exert far more influence,
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-07-03 03:58:192016-04-11 10:59:21Local Politics Is the Strategy
It is easy for libertarians, conservatives and capitalists to be upset with popes, although it is also easy to be selective about quoting them – like a recent article at Restoring Liberty.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-07-03 03:58:092016-04-11 10:59:21On Pope Francis: A Response to Tim Brown’s Anti-Catholic Screed
Each Fourth of July and throughout the year, Americans express their support for the freedoms they enjoy and for the unlimited opportunities they have to improve their station in life because of The Free Enterprise System.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-07-03 03:57:542016-04-11 10:59:21Happy Fourth of July, God Bless the USA! [+videos]
Last week, the Supreme Court redefined both liberty and marriage, and opened the door to punitive taxes, crippling lawsuits and criminal prosecutions against orthodox Christian churches, schools and hospitals. This is no time to stand down and withdraw, as some Christians have suggested.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-07-02 03:44:402016-04-11 10:59:22The Benedict Option, or Benedict Arnold Option? [+video]
Liberals have a long history of being the left’s useful idiots. It’s only fair that libertarians get a turn.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-07-02 03:43:392016-04-11 10:59:24No Truce With the Left
Never forget that electing bad Republicans now always leads to electing even worse Democrats later.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-07-01 03:14:102016-04-11 10:59:25“Let’s Endorse the First 2016 Candidate to Make ‘Burn it Down’ Their Campaign Theme,” and Other Deep Conservative Thoughts
As the Supreme Court made clear with their recent rulings on Obamacare, marriage, and housing, the country is already free from its constitutional moorings and is charting a dangerous new course towards rule by men, not law. History has proven, without question, that when government by discretion, rather than by law, tyranny results.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-06-30 03:49:342016-04-11 10:59:28Ex-Federal Agent’s Call to Action: Government Ruling Illegitimately, Time For Civil Disobedience
It says something about the ethos of a ruling class oligarchy and fringe media that a tragedy can be exploited for a political agenda.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-06-30 03:49:242016-04-11 10:59:289 Bigger Threats Than the Confederate Flag [+video]
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-06-27 00:55:262016-04-11 10:59:32Obergefell v. Hodges: Illegitimate, Unlawful, and a Fraud on the American People
Although it seems strange now, at the time of the nation’s founding, it was not uncommon for the U.S. Supreme Court to both conduct trials and hear appeals.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-06-26 03:32:542016-04-11 10:59:36“We the People” Have the Final Say on Same Sex Marriage – Not Judges
If the U.S. Supreme Court rules that states must recognize so-called same-sex “marriage” does that mean that proponents of real marriage have only the remedy of a Constitutional Amendment to block the effects of such a decision? Nope. There’s a much more direct path.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-06-25 02:24:122016-04-11 10:59:39Congressional Appropriations Power Could Stop Same-Sex “Marriage”
Sometimes the pressure of secular society, long-engrained evils, institutional self-interest, bad advisors, the limits of their background or personal foibles, overwhelm Popes and lead them astray.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-06-25 02:23:502016-04-11 10:59:39What Do We Do When the Pope Gets It Wrong? [+video]
The first and overriding consideration of disciples of Christ is to obey God, regardless of the consequences. That may mean the loss of business and professional opportunity. And those consequences are coming in spades in the not-so-distant U.S. future.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-06-25 02:21:462016-04-11 10:59:40Dignity, the Constitution, and the Bible
At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, a woman allegedly approached Benjamin Franklin and asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got – a republic or a monarchy?” The sage 81-year-old Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-06-24 03:43:062016-04-11 10:59:41Time to Checkmate Federal Courts on Same-Sex Marriage and More
“Same-sex marriage” may be an affront to common sense, an oxymoron, and even an ontological impossibility. But as the product of a type of behavior familiar in contemporary politics, its promotion is nothing really new.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-06-23 15:50:012016-04-11 10:59:44Same-Sex Marriage Versus Judicial Good Behavior
Not only will we soon know how the U.S. Supreme Court decides the issue of same-sex marriage in the Obergefell case — we will also know if the Court will follow federal law and its own judicial ethics rules in reaching that decision.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-06-20 03:58:462016-04-11 10:59:48Same-Sex Marriage: Efforts to Have Justices Ginsburg and Kagan Recuse Take a Troubling Turn
Prepare for civil disobedience. That’s the message one prominent pastor is sending to some 16 million members of the Southern Baptist Convention.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-06-18 04:00:132016-04-11 10:59:53“Prepare for Civil Disobedience”: Southern Baptists Urged to Reject Any Laws Legalizing Gay Marriage
The Federal Government seems bent on destroying Western Civilization and the final blow could be decreed in just the next several days. This author argues that when nations denigrate God’s created order regarding family, they cannot survive. There has never been an exception in the history of the world.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-06-18 03:58:542016-04-11 10:59:54The Duty of Lower Magistrates to Face Down the Tyranny of Same Sex Marriage
The Constitution is NOT irrelevant and out dated as the progressives claim. It’s fitting on the 800th birthday of the Magna Carta that we consider its history and that of other English documents to help us understand this.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-06-17 03:58:422016-04-11 10:59:56800 Years of the Magna Carta Prove the Constitution is NOT Irrelevant [+video]
As usual in mid-June, the hearts of Supreme Court junkies beat ever more rapidly as they eagerly await “blockbuster” ex cathedra diktats from on high and it will be but the latest illustration of a long history of judicial abuse of power.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-06-16 03:51:332016-04-11 10:59:58Coming Attractions at the Supreme Court Theater of the Absurd
The sixth in our series on Building the Resistance to Same Sex Marriage is written by a former congressman who asserts that there is a “duty to disregard any federal judicial usurpation of the states’ lawful jurisdiction of marriage policy.” In other words, time for some civil disobedience.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-06-16 03:50:552016-04-11 10:59:58Same-Sex Marriage: The Sanctity of an Oath and the Duty to Disregard
The New Totalitarians Are Here
/3 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Tom NicholsThere’s a basic difference in the traditions of political science between “authoritarians” and “totalitaritarians.” I fear an increasing number of my fellow Americans are, at heart, becoming totalitarians.
Justice Kennedy’s Naked Politics and the Hypocrisy of the Court
/2 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Daniel HorowitzThe flagrant duplicity of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Supreme Court decisions this term should render his opinions as lawfully binding as a sermon from Barney Frank. In other words: they are bloviating examples of politics before the rule of law.
Will Samantha Power Be the First American UN Ambassador to Abandon Israel?
/3 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Shmuley BoteachAt the AIPAC Annual Policy Conference in Washington, DC, in March, Samantha avowed, “It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand, and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.” But now, she’s reversed her perspective.
Trump Seems to Really be Running and, By the Way, What he Said About Mexicans Wasn’t All Inaccurate
/3 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Rich LowryThe shunning of Trump is in response to his uh, memorable presidential announcement that included comments about the alleged criminality of Mexican immigrants that were typically crude – but not all untrue.
Local Politics Is the Strategy
/2 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Lance RobertsWhile I participate in elections for our national representation, I certainly don’t believe that we have much influence on what goes on in Washington, D.C. At the State level, we can exert far more influence,
On Pope Francis: A Response to Tim Brown’s Anti-Catholic Screed
/5 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Bob BirdIt is easy for libertarians, conservatives and capitalists to be upset with popes, although it is also easy to be selective about quoting them – like a recent article at Restoring Liberty.
Happy Fourth of July, God Bless the USA! [+videos]
/0 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by CPT Joseph JohnEach Fourth of July and throughout the year, Americans express their support for the freedoms they enjoy and for the unlimited opportunities they have to improve their station in life because of The Free Enterprise System.
The Benedict Option, or Benedict Arnold Option? [+video]
/0 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by John ZmirakLast week, the Supreme Court redefined both liberty and marriage, and opened the door to punitive taxes, crippling lawsuits and criminal prosecutions against orthodox Christian churches, schools and hospitals. This is no time to stand down and withdraw, as some Christians have suggested.
No Truce With the Left
/2 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Daniel GreenfieldLiberals have a long history of being the left’s useful idiots. It’s only fair that libertarians get a turn.
“Let’s Endorse the First 2016 Candidate to Make ‘Burn it Down’ Their Campaign Theme,” and Other Deep Conservative Thoughts
/3 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Steve DeaceNever forget that electing bad Republicans now always leads to electing even worse Democrats later.
Ex-Federal Agent’s Call to Action: Government Ruling Illegitimately, Time For Civil Disobedience
/24 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Dan BonginoAs the Supreme Court made clear with their recent rulings on Obamacare, marriage, and housing, the country is already free from its constitutional moorings and is charting a dangerous new course towards rule by men, not law. History has proven, without question, that when government by discretion, rather than by law, tyranny results.
9 Bigger Threats Than the Confederate Flag [+video]
/0 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Daniel HorowitzIt says something about the ethos of a ruling class oligarchy and fringe media that a tragedy can be exploited for a political agenda.
Obergefell v. Hodges: Illegitimate, Unlawful, and a Fraud on the American People
/26 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Herbert W. Titus and William J. OlsonThere is simply no other way to say it.
“We the People” Have the Final Say on Same Sex Marriage – Not Judges
/10 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Charles KeyAlthough it seems strange now, at the time of the nation’s founding, it was not uncommon for the U.S. Supreme Court to both conduct trials and hear appeals.
Congressional Appropriations Power Could Stop Same-Sex “Marriage”
/1 Comment/in Featured, Opinion /by Virginia Delegate Robert G. MarshallIf the U.S. Supreme Court rules that states must recognize so-called same-sex “marriage” does that mean that proponents of real marriage have only the remedy of a Constitutional Amendment to block the effects of such a decision? Nope. There’s a much more direct path.
What Do We Do When the Pope Gets It Wrong? [+video]
/2 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by John ZmirakSometimes the pressure of secular society, long-engrained evils, institutional self-interest, bad advisors, the limits of their background or personal foibles, overwhelm Popes and lead them astray.
Dignity, the Constitution, and the Bible
/2 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Rick PlastererThe first and overriding consideration of disciples of Christ is to obey God, regardless of the consequences. That may mean the loss of business and professional opportunity. And those consequences are coming in spades in the not-so-distant U.S. future.
Time to Checkmate Federal Courts on Same-Sex Marriage and More
/4 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Thomas J. AshcraftAt the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, a woman allegedly approached Benjamin Franklin and asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got – a republic or a monarchy?” The sage 81-year-old Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Same-Sex Marriage Versus Judicial Good Behavior
/3 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Edwin Vieira, Jr.“Same-sex marriage” may be an affront to common sense, an oxymoron, and even an ontological impossibility. But as the product of a type of behavior familiar in contemporary politics, its promotion is nothing really new.
Same-Sex Marriage: Efforts to Have Justices Ginsburg and Kagan Recuse Take a Troubling Turn
/10 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Herbert W. Titus & William J. OlsonNot only will we soon know how the U.S. Supreme Court decides the issue of same-sex marriage in the Obergefell case — we will also know if the Court will follow federal law and its own judicial ethics rules in reaching that decision.
“Prepare for Civil Disobedience”: Southern Baptists Urged to Reject Any Laws Legalizing Gay Marriage
/3 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Todd StarnesPrepare for civil disobedience. That’s the message one prominent pastor is sending to some 16 million members of the Southern Baptist Convention.
The Duty of Lower Magistrates to Face Down the Tyranny of Same Sex Marriage
/3 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Matthew TrewhellaThe Federal Government seems bent on destroying Western Civilization and the final blow could be decreed in just the next several days. This author argues that when nations denigrate God’s created order regarding family, they cannot survive. There has never been an exception in the history of the world.
800 Years of the Magna Carta Prove the Constitution is NOT Irrelevant [+video]
/17 Comments/in Featured, Opinion, Radio, Video /by KrisAnne HallThe Constitution is NOT irrelevant and out dated as the progressives claim. It’s fitting on the 800th birthday of the Magna Carta that we consider its history and that of other English documents to help us understand this.
Coming Attractions at the Supreme Court Theater of the Absurd
/1 Comment/in Featured, Opinion /by Dr. Lester JacksonAs usual in mid-June, the hearts of Supreme Court junkies beat ever more rapidly as they eagerly await “blockbuster” ex cathedra diktats from on high and it will be but the latest illustration of a long history of judicial abuse of power.
Same-Sex Marriage: The Sanctity of an Oath and the Duty to Disregard
/3 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by John HostettlerThe sixth in our series on Building the Resistance to Same Sex Marriage is written by a former congressman who asserts that there is a “duty to disregard any federal judicial usurpation of the states’ lawful jurisdiction of marriage policy.” In other words, time for some civil disobedience.