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The American system was founded on a simple idea: three branches of government, each with its distinct role. The president executes the law, Congress creates it, and the judiciary interprets it. However, at some point, activist judges became more than just referees; they began seeing themselves as emperors, wielding gavels like scepters and rewriting the … Read more
The primary purpose of the federal judiciary is to make sure that anything the federal government does is almost never, ever, ruled to be unconstitutional. This is Hamilton’s constitutional regime. A believer in unlimited government, Alexander Hamilton’s constitutional belief was that the constitution can and should be used as a rubber stamp on unlimited government … Read more
A repugnant tactic of authoritarianism is categorizing people’s desire for or exercise of freedom as illness that government should suppress. An example of this was the deeming of dissidents in the Soviet Union as mentally ill to justify their detention and punishment. In America, there has long been resistance against an effort to similarly have the United … Read more
Here’s a biological fact. You can’t be a trans girl or transwoman unless you were born male. And no, this not my first rodeo with that inconvenient reality, nor is this the last. The mere suggestion twists so many progressive panties, whether there’s a penis in there or not, that it bears repeating. Then there’s … Read more
Some of the worst fads in education have come from education reformers with no track record of success in public education. So when you hear the term “student-centered learning,” you might want to consider what this means. Student-centered learning sounds good, but what does it look like in the classroom? I’ve already reported on how … Read more
This is funny because it’s true. It isn’t easy to disagree with the classification because we all know or have seen someone who has it. TDS has turned millions of seemingly average liberals into pro-war, pro-deep state, pro-Cheney family wingnuts who oppose anyone seen as insufficiently anti-Trump. Episodes erupt like psychotic breaks. Peace becomes capitulation, … Read more
Five years ago, politicians and bureaucrats went berserk and pointlessly ravaged Americans’ freedom. The Covid-19 pandemic provided the pretext to destroy hundreds of thousands of businesses, padlock churches, close down schools, and effectively place hundreds of millions of Americans under house arrest. Despite all the forced sacrifices, most Americans contracted covid and more than a … Read more
Chuck Schumer began the end of his political career a week ago when he joined the Republicans to keep the government open and voted for the Continuing Resolution. It may have been the right thing to do for the country, but it is proving to be political suicide for the leader of the Democrat Party. … Read more
It’s not enough to elect a President; it involves a day-to-day people thing! First off, America’s threat is real, ongoing, and relentless. What seems miniscule today will evolve into a fearful accumulation tomorrow. So, we each need to self-admit and become aware that there is an ongoing threat! However, our task can be strengthened with … Read more
If you were hoping that Donald Trump and Pam Bondi were going to protect the 2nd Amendment, it might be time to rethink that position. So while we are all waiting for AG Bondi’s report on the Second Amendment, pursuant to President Trump’s executive order, we now find out that the new DOJ is much … Read more
For the last 40 years, all we’ve heard from the Left is that we’re fascists. It has intensified over the last several years. Why? Power – or the loss or lack thereof. Their message has stopped resonating with the public. Their rants are no longer persuasive. Their only backup plan is to try to otherize … Read more
What girls and women need to understand about the progressive agenda is that when it uses the word choice they don’t mean you. Individual girls and women do not get to decide what works for them or their situation. No one does. The Democrat Party chooses. Women do not have a choice in the progressive … Read more
The Left is forever trying to pull the wool over your eyes, ears, and mouth on the subject of settled science. Sorry, Science is NEVER settled, nor is there consensus. Science works only when the data supports a given hypothesis, and then fails when someone else brings up data that shows the hypothesis, no matter … Read more
The Left has a problem legislating but excels at litigating. Democrats refuse to cooperate in the Trump administration’s initiatives but have gotten activist judges to impose 64 injunctions against the White House and team. The Judicial Branch of the government is tasked with interpreting the laws and ensuring that they are applied fairly and consistently. … Read more
I am reminded of my question to Bruce Curry, “Whose money is it FIRST?” Put another way, “Who has the first claim on the money in my wallet”? Curry was an uber-progressive who frequented GraniteGrok for many years, but that was a question he would never answer. He was clear that what funding the Government … Read more
Just how much mental and psychological trauma exists in the country and world today cannot be quantified, and I would not trust any studies that tried. But this much is clear. We have lost our footing in knowing something that scientists long believed we could know: whether and to what extent an economy is growing … Read more
The last few weeks have been devastating for the Democrats. They had an internal explosion when Chuck Schumer broke from the base and voted in favor of the Republican version of the Continuing Resolution. Most members of the Party felt that Schumer had abandoned them and surrendered to Trump and the MAGA Republicans. Many of … Read more
On March 11, 2025, Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) sparked outrage during a House Foreign Affairs Europe Subcommittee hearing by referring to Sarah McBride, the Delaware poster child of the progressive elite and self-proclaimed “first transgender member of Congress,” as “Mr. McBride.“ The response was predictable — a truth bomb that sent the sanctimonious left into … Read more
Good governance utilizing democratic processes, capitalist economies, meritocracy and healthy work ethic, and the Rules of Law and Private Property (among other things) have raised billions out of abject poverty. From a world where poverty was the normal state of being for thousands of years of human existence. Yet, one of Lloyd Alter’s Carbon Upfront! … Read more
When the Biden administration announced $27 billion in environmental grants last April, it set the clock ticking on a predicament: how to get the unprecedented sums for the President’s envisioned NetZero future out the door before the fiscal year ended on Sept. 30? The task was complicated by the fact most of the money – $20 … Read more