The Patriot Post ~ “If the federal government should … make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people … must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.” –Alexander Hamilton It was a bad week for […]
By Nicolas Loris ~ In June 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama said, “If we continue to let our trade policy be dictated by special interests, then American workers will continue to be undermined, and public support for robust trade will continue to erode.” That’s exactly what’s happening with respect to energy trade. Special interests want […]
The Patriot Post ~ “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.” –John Adams The tiny Mediterranean island of Cyprus is currently mulling over its […]
The Patriot Post ~ The Foundation “The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and […]
The Patriot Post ~ “There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” –George Washington The last few months have seen troubling news of massive government purchases of ammunition. Agencies from the Social Security Administration to the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Homeland Security have purchased […]
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ Today the State Department released yet another positive environmental review for the northern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline project. The State Department approved the original pipeline route through Nebraska, which was supposedly less environmentally friendly, without any problems. It is no surprise, then, that the State Department also seems […]
By Matt Vespa ~ Yesterday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s Now with Alex Wagner featured a discussion about the Keystone XL Pipeline, which is anathema to the environmental left, and which President Obama cynically delayed a decision on until after the 2012 election. With the decision to approve or decline the project still looming for President Obama and Secretary […]
By Paul Driessen ~ Radical activists have launched more attacks on oil sands to try to derail the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring desperately needed jobs and tax revenues. Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman has approved his state’s portion of the Keystone XL pipeline, explaining that its revised route avoids areas that critics had earlier claimed […]
The Patriot Post ~ “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” –Patrick Henry A troop of utterly shameless stage actors and demo-gogues took to the microphone Thursday to assist Sen. […]
The Patriot Post ~ “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” –Second Amendment to the United States Constitution On Thursday, we began a critical push for American Patriots across this great nation to pledge: “We, […]
The Patriot Post ~ “No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable.” –James Madison Good news, America: Those who believe that our nation has “barbarians at the gates” are dead wrong. The bad news: The barbarians are already well inside the gates, running the federal government. The Barbarian-in-Chief […]
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” –Patrick Henry Throughout July, the United Nations worked to hammer out the details of its Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). We and many other […]
Today we take a look at several big rulings handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court. These include the travesty of a decision upholding ObamaCare, the assault on the sovereign state of Arizona, the ever-evolving definition of “cruel and unusual punishment” with regard to the sentencing of minors, and campaign cash in Montana. The […]
The Patriot Post Digest “Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.” –John Adams Since at least April, the economic “recovery,” such as it was, has nearly ground to a halt. But Barack Obama doesn’t want to talk about that. Instead, his politically adept administration is working overtime to come up with as […]
By Alan Caruba ~ “Their goal is to stop any major project no matter what the cost to Canadian families in lost jobs and economic growth. No forestry. No Mining. No oil. No gas. No more hydro-electric dams.” That was Canada’s Natural Resources Minister, Joe Oliver, speaking on January 9, 2012 and he might have […]
The Patriot Post Digest The Foundation “Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.” –Thomas Jefferson Government & Politics Election Year Taxes As we have documented over the years, the Leftmedia are quite […]
By Alan Caruba ~ The President’s trip last week to Cushing, Oklahoma, was nothing more than the opportunity to stand in front of a stack of oil pipeline sections and lie some more about the Keystone pipeline. His contempt for the intelligences of Americans was on full display. A pipeline section that did not require his approval […]
The Patriot Post Digest The Foundation “There is a just God who presides over the destines of nations … who will raise up friends to fight our battle for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. … Is life so dear, or […]
By Paul Driessen ~ President Obama “is focused like a laser on putting people back to work,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) assured us last fall – echoing repeated statements by President Obama and Administration officials who “can’t wait” for Congress or others to take action and create jobs. The jobs thing didn’t last long, […]
The Patriot Post Digest The Foundation “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” –Thomas Paine Government & Politics Religious Freedom You ‘Deserve’ The Yes-We-Can administration remains on the defensive following public outrage from its latest ObamaCare edict issued […]
By Tom Blumer ~ On Monday (appearing in the print edition on Tuesday, New York Times op-ed columnist Joe Nocera (pictured) gave President Barack Obama a pass for rejecting the Keystone Pipeline. In the process, he also complained about “the way our poisoned politics damages the country,” and, in a revelation which shouldn’t but did […]
The Patriot Post Chronicle The Foundation “[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes.” –Alexander Hamilton Editorial Exegesis “A study to be published in June in the New York University Law Review finds that our Constitution ‘appears to be losing […]
The Patriot Post Digest The Foundation “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.” –Benjamin Franklin Government & Politics ‘Doing Good […]
The Patriot Post Digest The Foundation “To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee […]
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