By Ellis Washington 21 July 2016 “While you should always ‘vote your conscience,’ if you’re invited to dinner, you don’t eat the food, drink the wine, and then piss on the carpet. It was tacky.” ~ CNN’s Ana Navarro (a former Bush aide) “…[H]e rose through pride and he fell in despair.” ~ Father Reginald […]
By Ellis Washington July 8, 2016 “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” ~ Elie Wiesel, Night (1958) Elie Wiesel… My Friend It has taken me a week to finally be lucid enough in mind, body, and spirit to write a coherent and appropriate memorial essay for my friend, activist and […]
By Ellis Washington June 18, 2016 Sovereignty-Surveillance vs. PC-Genocide? “He [Omar Mateen] was born here, but his parents weren’t, and his ideas weren’t. His ideas [radical Islam] were born from some place else.” ~ Trump “If you look at who the bad people are in this country right now, they’re not Muslims, they’re not people who identify with Islamic faith. They’re […]
By Ellis Washington 4 July 2016 “I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution…” ~ Judge Posner “Posner’s attack on Heller [and Robert Bork] is thus just the latest and pettiest manifestation of his envy, spite, and anger at losing out […]
Stone Washington 6/29/16 “Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter” ~ Hector, Iliad “What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate” “Sometimes by losing a battle you […]
By Ellis Washington June 24, 2016 Most governments throughout history have exploited those they ruled for the benefit of those who controlled them. Before the birth of the American republic, Government Zero was the rule, not the exception. ~ Michael Savage What Is Government Zero? Dr. Michael Savage and his essential book, Government Zero: […]
“The corruption, crime, and incompetence of the D.C. government has been an embarrassment to our nation’s capital for decades. It is long past time that Congress restored the honor and integrity of George Washington to the beautiful city which bears his name.” ~ Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), speaking on the BOWSER Act “It is […]
Fifth Circuit’s Ruling against “Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule” Safeguards Meritocracy Over Mediocrity
“The evidence presented by Nasdaq in its rule proposal, contrary to its claims, does not show that board diversity provides better returns for shareholders.” ~Excerpt from a Manhattan Institute led amicus curiae brief in the case of Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment vs. SEC. “We will terminate every diversity, equity, and inclusion program across the […]
The Keep Nine Amendment: A Permanent Solution to Threats of Court-Packing
“I think that was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court. If anything would make the court appear more partisan, it would be that. So, I am not at all in favor of that solution. Nine seems to be a good number. It’s been that way for a […]
Erdogan: The Hitler of our Time
By Ellis Washington 27 July 2016 If you win, you need not have to explain… If you lose, you should not be there to explain! ~ Adolf Hitler To Erdogan, free speech is terrorism. ~ John Xenakis Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) admires Hitler and the Nazi Third Right and thus covets tyrannical powers […]
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