Constitution

Not On My Watch

This entry was tagged Apathy Constitution Partisan Renaissance Veterans and posted on July 4, 2018 by Jason Everett Miller

Across Lafayette Square from the White House sits St. John’s Episcopal Church. Long known as The President’s Church, this one building perfectly illustrates our relationship with Christianity in America. Given our penchant for poverty and prisons, it seems an odd choice of religious touchstones, but I’m a fan of cognitive dissonance as much […]

Religion & Politics

This entry was tagged Constitution Religion and posted on June 2, 2015 by Jason Everett Miller

The men who wrote the Constitution had a pretty straightforward plan to Provide for the Common Defense. Most new Americans viewed a standing army as a source of oppressive behavior at home and misanthropic behavior abroad, so opted for state militias and a navy...

Recrossing the Rubicon

This entry was tagged Change Constitution Defense Spending Evolution Progressive US Military and posted on February 5, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

Par for the course in Pax Americana holds that if a law is not in keeping with the current junta's notion of what is legal they simply go around it as if it didn't even exist. Or change the law...

Posse Comitatus Act(ors)

This entry was tagged Constitution Local Police Posse Comitatus US Military War On Drugs and posted on January 13, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

From 1919 to 1933, we conducted a national experiment in drug prohibition. The drug of choice at that time (besides marijuana and opium) was alcohol. The 18th Amendment made it illegal and sparked off a bloody war that only the...

Another Unconstitutional War

This entry was tagged Apathy Congress Constitution War On Drugs We The People and posted on January 1, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

The Constitution is quite clear on matters of war. We were not meant to have an enormous, world-straddling military hegemony. What military we did possess was meant as a defense mechanism only and not a tool of global dominance. The...

An American Renaissance

This entry was tagged Congress Constitution Evolution Non Profit US Military and posted on December 31, 2009 by Jason Everett Miller

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It's amazing. Everything Barack does now as a Senator brings out the Constitutional Lawyer Brigade (not a actual attorney among them) to SCREAM FROM EVERY THREAD - Obama is Destroying the Country I Love and Ending Democracy as We Know...

I’m not a lawyer, but I play one TV.

This entry was tagged Congress Constitution Partisan and posted on July 11, 2008 by Jason Everett Miller

My personal political ideals fall somewhat to the left of Dennis Kucinich and to the right of Karl Marx. In contrast to many caricatures of my posts at TPM, my understanding of Obama's stance on FISA has zero to do with...

The last time I use the acronym FISA

This entry was tagged Barack Obama Constitution FISA and posted on June 27, 2008 by Jason Everett Miller

Analysis & Opinion on the American Experiment