Supreme Court, The 2nd Amendment And The NRA
As the readers of my columns on News With Views are aware, for more than the past decade I have attempted to awaken Americans...
Legal Audacity Is The Answer To Political Aggression
Since his inauguration, President Trump has assumed an all-too-reactive and-defensive posture vis-à-vis his political enemies. He seems quite unable to foresee, let alone to forestall,...
What Trump’s Nominee Should Have Said
During the hearings on the confirmation of President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch, Senator Dianne Feinstein asked two questions...
President Trump On “Law Enforcement”
One of the major concerns I have had with Donald Trump as a candidate, and continue to have with President Trump in the White...
An Ominous Start?
According to seemingly reliable reports in the media, President Trump may have determined that his Administration will not conduct a criminal investigation of Hillary...
A Monetary Litmus Test for Mr. Trump
Recently, various analysts and commentators in the alternative media have darkly speculated that, rather than presenting a real opportunity to “make America great again”,...
The Wisdom of the Electoral College
Since the recent Presidential election, the media have overflowed with rather rancorous debates about the legitimacy of the Electoral College, in contrast to a...
No Sanctuaries in “Sanctuary Cities”
In his recent NewsWithViews commentary, “Sanctuary Cities and the PATCO Strike Analogy” (21 November 2016), Jonathan Emord recommends that
pon assuming office, President Trump should...
Mr. Trump’s Second Amendment
Notwithstanding the rioters in the streets of major American cities who are attempting to create the chaotic conditions for a neo-Bolshevik take-over of the...
Travesty, Tragedy and Treason: Abood v. Detroit Board of Education and the Supreme Court’s...
This article originally appeared in the Government Review, Vol 19, No. 2 (2000).
I. Introduction
The major problems besetting contemporary public education are anything but accidental....
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