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A Plan for Fixing the FBI

Published on July 16, 2023 By sirrahc

“One way or another, the time is now for Congress to do what’s needed to fix the FBI and end its trampling of Americans’ most precious civil liberties.” — Steven G. Bradbury, Distinguished Fellow in the Executive Vice President’s Office at The Heritage Foundation For a while now, there have been calls to revamp or […]

Ideological Purity in the DoJ’s Civil Rights Division

Published on October 4, 2015 By sirrahc

This week we have my final post citing from Jay Sekulow’s Undemocratic. Yes, it involves more infuriating behavior from bureaucrats at the U.S. Department of Justice. It will make you cringe, or at least shake your head in amazement. It will probably make you wonder how in the world we (as a nation) allowed this […]

Sue and Settle: Regulating Behind Closed Doors

Published on August 23, 2015 By sirrahc

“Experience has shown that, even under the best forms of government, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”  — Thomas Jefferson I have more research to do for my previously intended post, so this is a “filler”, of sorts. But, it’s not empty filler. It’s important, substantial […]

Facts Are Stubborn Things

Published on March 8, 2015 By sirrahc

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”  — John Adams, Esq., Argument in Defense of the British Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials, Dec. 4, 1770. We all, at some time or another, are guilty […]

DOMA and Executive Responsibility

Published on March 12, 2011 By sirrahc

“If executive officers were to adopt a policy of ignoring or attacking Acts of Congress whenever they believed them to be in conflict with the provisions of the Constitution, their conduct in office could jeopardize the equilibrium established within our constitutional system.” — Benjamin Civiletti, U.S. Attorney General under President Jimmy Carter Who knew defending […]