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Ten Reasons I Hate Berkeley

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Rich Stowell

There are good people who live in Berkeley. I hope they both forgive me. I used to live in Oakland, but as the 2010 elections approached and it became apparent that California would lurch further to the left and toward insolvency, my family and I fled to the safety of a red state. Nevertheless, the […]

Let’s Blame OWS for a Few Bad Apples

Posted on November 7, 2011December 30, 2012 by Rich Stowell

When I criticize the Occupy movement, liberals and so-called independents fire back with claims that the movement, in the main, is peaceful and constructive; and that the violence is the result of infiltrators and “a few bad apples.” Personally, I believe that this is nonsense. From my experience (as a public school teacher in the […]

The Constitution Is Meaningless

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Rich Stowell

Those of us who believe that the Constitution should still be relevant in American policy making have reason to rejoice in the 11th Circuit’s ruling that Obamacare violates our founding document. Liberals, on the other hand, simply dismiss any constitutional argument against the government takeover of the health industry. How, according to the Left, are […]

Today’s Democrats and Slaveholders

Posted on July 8, 2011December 30, 2012 by Rich Stowell

In his seminal and ultimately destructive majority opinion in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, Chief Justice Roger Taney claimed that the United States Constitution denied a former slave citizenship, and thus standing in federal court. He also construed the Constitution to deny Congress power to regulate the territories with respect to slavery: “The […]

What Nation Building at Home Really Means

Posted on July 4, 2011July 4, 2011 by Rich Stowell

President Obama’s synopsis of the recent speech he gave describing his Afghanistan troop withdrawal was, “America, it is time to focus on nation-building here at home.” What on earth does that mean? Though lofty and nearly unimpeachable as a safely vague slogan, it is hardly new or unique to Democratic speech making. There has been […]