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American children’s book author Dr. Seuss once wrote a book called “Wacky Wednesday,” where a child wakes up to find absolutely everything seeming out of place.   Unfortunately, it looks like America has reached a “Wacky Wednesday” of its own but this time, it’s no laughing matter. For starters, liberals have effectively turned the American justice system on its head in the wake of the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh; the number of which continues to grow as the Republicans continue to delay a Judiciary Committee vote.   Coincidence?   Don’t bet on it.   Traditionally, the defendant has no responsibility to prove his or her innocence; the prosecution has the responsibility to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.   However, many Democratic Senators who hated Kavanaugh to begin with and would never in a million years have voted to confirm him, have now said that the onus lies on him for proclaiming his innocence. ...

Believe it or not, on a few different occasions over the past week or so, it appeared as if MSNBC Host Joe Scarborough and at least some of his co-panelists had lost their Trump Derangement Syndrome.   Last Friday, Scarborough and his panelists traveled to Mississippi , site of two Senate elections this year, to take the pulse of the voters. The Mississippi Republicans who took part in their “focus group” deserve a lot of credit for turning the other cheek, considering the fact that Scarborough once dismissed Trump voters as too incompetent to handle anything sharp, specifically imploring them to “ step away from your kitchen utensils and knives and blenders” and wondering whether they knew how to operate a manual egg beater.   During his appearance in Mississippi , Scarborough explained and appeared to empathize with a “great frustration” experienced by Republican voters:   We el ect our Republican presidents, we knock on doors for them, we have blood and sweat a...

27 years ago, Former Chariman of the Equal Opportunity Commission and DC Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Clarence Thomas underwent confirmation hearings to serve on the Supreme Court.   Control of the Court truly hanged in the balance, Thomas’s judicial philosophy differed sharply from that of the man he would replace, Justice Thurgood Marshall.   At the time of Thomas’s confirmation hearings, the other eight justices on the Court besides Marshall consisted of conservative/originalist Republican-appointed Justices William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia, socially conservative Democrat appointee Byron White, Republican appointees and major disappointments to conservatives Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens, and relatively new Republican-appointed justices Sandra Day O’Connor, David Souter and Anthony Kennedy. Marshall developed a reputation as a liberal judicial activist while Thomas indicated that he would take a more originalist approach on the bench; an idea that terrified ...

Today marks the 231 st anniversary of the signing of the Constitution.   In addition, today also marks my 23 rd birthday, making me roughly one-tenth as old as the Constitution.   When I first learned about Constitution Day, I mistakenly thought it September 16 th .   Perhaps that was because my birthday fell on a Saturday that year. 231 years later, the United States Constitution still serves as the founding document of the Republic, as opposed to France , which has repeatedly “ripped up” its Constitution.   The framers deliberately made the Constitution difficult to amend; any Constitutional amendment requires the support of two-thirds of the members of Congress and the support of three-fourths of the state.   Given the current makeup of the House and Senate, that means any Constitutional amendment would require the support of 67 Senators and 290 members of the House of Representatives.   America now has fifty states; meaning that the state legislat...