Opinion

Before I became a trial lawyer, I was corporate. Studying legal systems abroad morphed into drafting foreign license agreements, and in the late 90s, I negotiated across the table from Russian oligarchs. These were men who, through connections with the recently-dissolved Russian state, came into new money when Soviet apparatchiks divvied up Russia’s wealth and natural resources for themselves.

Meet Boris, a walking Russian stereotype

The 32-year-old Norwegian considered himself a deep thinker and a big fan of the right-wing and Russian propaganda which argued western civilization was rotting from within because of multiculturalism, empowered women, racial/religious minorities, and liberalism. Putting pen to paper, he wrote:

“When I first started blogging I was concerned with how we could ‘fix the system.’ I’ve gradually come to the conclusion that the system cannot be fixed, and perhaps shouldn’t be fixed. Not only does it have too many enemies, it also has too many internal contradictions.
“If we define the ‘system’ as mass immigration from alien cultures, globalism, multiculturalism and suppression of free speech in the name of ‘tolerance,’ then this is going to collapse. It’s inevitable.
“The goal of Western survivalists — and that’s what we are — should not be to ‘fix the system,’ but to be mentally and physically prepared for its collapse, and to develop coherent answers to what went wrong and prepare to implement the necessary remedies when the time comes.
“We need to seize the window of opportunity, and in order to do so, we need to define clearly what we want to achieve.”

After writing over 1500 pages describing how it’s the essential duty of every white man in the world to marginalize or even kill as many non-white non-Christians as possible, Anders Breivik set off a bomb in Oslo’s Government Quarter, killing eight people.

After nearly a month of the president ruling by force rather than persuasion, you can still find pundits who believe that the Democrats, if they are going to save the republic, must be more than anti-Trump.

They have to be for something, not just against it.

Regulars here will know I’m not a fan of BS and half-measures. Don’t piss on my boots and tell me it’s raining …

This has been a horrible month for anybody who still cares about America, her place in the world, and her duty to her people.

The Republican Taliban doesn’t want my wife, Louise Hartmann, to vote. And they may well put that desire into law this year.

Republicans have always been wary of women voting or even engaging in politics, while Democrats are welcoming of women.

In 1828, gold was found in the Appalacian Mountains of Georgia on land that belonged to the Cherokee Nation. As word of the gold spread, miners and settlers pushed into the area. The State of Georgia wanted to regulate, permit and benefit from the commerce, but the land belonged to the Cherokee under treaty with the federal government. As the state and miners continued to encroach, the Cherokee Nation refused to cede more land and sought an injunction that eventually reached the Supreme Court.

In 1832, Chief Justice John Marshall infuriated sitting president Andrew Jackson by declaring that the State of Georgia had no right to encroach on Cherokee lands, because the land belonged to the Cherokee under the terms of a federal treaty. Ignoring the Supreme Court’s ruling, a furious President Jackson famously responded: “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”

Within less than a month in office, the Trump administration exceeded its Art. II powers diminished the role of Congress and challenged the authority of the judiciary. Waving away his campaign pledge to lower the cost of groceries, Trump focused instead on maximal cruelty and political retribution dispersed with a wrecking ball.

Article I of the Constitution gives Congress, not the President, the power to establish federal agencies and to appropriate money to run them. But instead of examining expenditures and functionalities with an eye toward cutting costs, Trump and ketamine-crusted Elon Musk are blowing up entire government institutions, some of which have been in existence since the Revolutionary War.

So, JD Vance is now saying that he and Trump don’t have to obey federal judges, tweeting, “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” This is how autocrats run things; it’s an extraordinarily dangerous moment.

It was Tuesday, July 17, 1787 and the men writing the Constitution had convened in Philadelphia to debate the separation of powers between the Congress, the presidency, and the courts. They drew their inspiration for that day from French philosopher Charles de Montesquieu, whose 1748 book The Spirit of the Laws had taken the New World and the Framers of the Constitution by storm.

The 2024 election that might end up finishing off the United States of America for good was fueled at its ugly core by racism, and dangerous, centuries-old white grievance.

And if you are allowing yourself to be gaslighted by our mainstream media and too many Democratic politicians into thinking it wasn't, well, you are sliding toward being a major part of the problem. Worse, you are playing right into a career racist’s little hands, as he tries to beat us into a full surrender on this important issue.