Duke Over America

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan writes “The Second Amendment confers… an individual right to keep and bear arms.” But she is wrong — government does not grant rights; rights are already inherent to every individual due to man’s nature as a thinking being. Government’s proper job to protect already existing moral rights — the “unalienable [...]

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Thomas Jefferson’s Tea Party Speech by Thomas Jefferson July 4, 2010 Compiled by Robert Tracinski. Note: At the Jefferson Area Tea Party’s Independence Day celebration in Charlottesville, Virginia, we were favored by a surprise visit from our most famous local celebrity, the Sage of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Jefferson came to read the Declaration of [...]

A June 27th New York Post editorial is subtitled “Young Republicans embrace low taxes, but reject moral issues.” But in reality, taxes are the great moral issue of our time. Is it morally proper for government to legalize the theft of income from those who have earned it, to redistribute it to those who haven’t [...]

Leftists show their contempt for the Constitution in many ways: insulting the Founding Fathers, calling the Constitution a “living document” (as if the words in the Constitution have no meaning), etc. These socialists could learn something from Martin Luther King Jr., who praised the Constitution numerous times. For example, during King’s magnificent “I Have a [...]

Israel acted admirably in its own self-defense by enforcing its blockade — tellingly, against a vessel in which occupants chanted “go back to Auschwitz,” a reference to the Nazi concentration camp at which tens of thousands of Jews were murdered. As if that didn’t reveal the Jew-hatred in an obvious enough way, the next boat [...]

U.S. Congressman Bob Etheridge (a Democrat from North Carolina) was recently approached on a public sidewalk by a college student, who peacefully asked him a question about whether or not he supports Obama. Etheridge responded by physically assaulting the young man. Etheridge’s despicable behavior is but the latest example of a Democratic politician showing his [...]

Recently, a government-run elementary school in Ann Arbor, Michigan selected a group of about 30 students to go on a field trip. The students were selected based on one key criterion — that they all happened to feature the same politically-correct skin color. Students who lacked this skin color were barred from the trip — [...]

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says that her favorite word is “The Word” — a Bible reference — and contends that “we have to give voice to what that means in terms of public policy.” Hey, Nancy: rather than using Washington D.C.’s iron fist to shove your religion down other people’s throats, perhaps you [...]

Recently, government school employee Rita Wilson complained to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie that she isn’t being paid enough given her “education and experience” — she demands $83,000 per year. Governor Christie’s response was excellent: “Well, you know then that you don’t have to do it [teach]“. Bravo for Christie’s willingness to stand up for [...]