In Defiance of the Constitution, 49,000 Troops Still Deployed in Iraq
Many of the nearly 50,000 combat troops waking up in the same Iraqi bivouacs would be surprised to learn that the “final combat brigade” has left Iraq and that Operation Iraqi...
About: Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
Posts by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You: RFID-embedded Bins in Cleveland
What was once a laughable plot of a late night science fiction movie, this nightmare of secret government implantation of microchips and the clandestine gathering of intimate information is now a...
Mosques, Magistrates, and Madison
A vituperative debate rages over the propriety of building a mosque near Ground Zero. President Obama stepped into the ring by obliquely promoting the right of Muslims to worship when, how,...
The Disease of Faction and the Constitutional Cure
Earlier in the week, The New American reported that despite his inaugural promise to shutter the prison at Guantanamo Bay “as soon as practicable, and no later than 1 year from the...
Necessary and Proper and Treasonous: All in a Day’s Work
Few days over the course of the summer of 1787 were as historically relevant as August 20. Time was dragging on and the weather was not helping. The delegates that had...
Tom Sawyer Had ADHD?
No longer satisfied by with diagnosis of over 5 million children with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), believers in the reliability of the diagnosis have turned their attention to fictional adolescents. ...
States Take Preemptive Strike Against Shariah
Wary of the increasing influence of Shariah law and its international adherents, lawmakers in several states are taking preemptive measures to protect their jurisprudence and infrastructure from what they see as...
“The Ecstasy of Empire” and the Agony of Tyranny
Infowars.com, the website founded by self-described “aggressive constitutionalist” Alex Jones, published an article by former Reagan Treasury Department official and co-author of Reaganomics, Paul Craig Roberts entitled “The Ecstasy of Empire.”...
This Day in the Constitutional Convention of 1787
Thursday, August 16, 1787. The State House in Philadelphia was hot, hot, hot. The delegates gathered to “form a more perfect union” were sweltering. Despite the oppressive heat, the windows remained...
Is the Constitution on Life Support?
Mark Twain, upon hearing that his obituary had been erroneously published, told a reporter, “Reports of my death are exaggerated.” Lately, there has been a similarly premature concert of requiems sung...
Couples That Pray Together, Stay Together
On August 12, the Washington Post reported that couples who share religious practices tend to be happier than those that don’t. That is to say, couples that pray together, stay together....
William Hogeland’s Declaration: A Review
A reader unfamiliar with the history of the complex admixture of conflict, compromises, condescension, and coercion that led to the “shot heard ‘round the world” would be forgiven if after reading...
Book Review: “Why We’re All Romans”
When it comes to the totality of our lives, Americans (and all Westerners) are culturally Hebrew, Greek, and Roman. We owe our intellectual inheritance to Athens, our religious attitude to Jerusalem,...
iPad on Academic Probation
Pedagogy is defined as the art or science of teaching. In the age in which we live, there is as much of one as of the other in classrooms around America....
Left and Right Unite in Call for Article V Convention
The clouds of a constitutional crisis are being seeded by the Left and the Right and are reaching the point of saturation. This atmospheric manipulation will likely result in a flood...