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"Red"-y to Run Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: July 2021
Blue States well may see their entire big government structures collapse as the tax bases disappear and the influx of illegal immigrants, crime, and homeless populations skyrocket. These Blue States may turn Red when the welfare dries up.
 
A New War Footing Jonathan W. Emord
Category: World Watcher Published: November 2017
"[North Korea] functions in a thuggish, uncivilized manner. Its actions invite both a conventional and an unconventional response. Pres. Donald Trump can learn much from Winston Churchill, who faced a comparable threat from the Nazis as prime minister."
 
All Is Not Well in the Welfare State Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Life in America Published: May 2013
"The Administration and political leaders in Congress appear incapable of agreeing on how to address any present issue of national import, including ones that have vexed the nation for decades, like Social Security and Medicare."
 
Back on Top Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Worldview Published: July 2017
"Trump has reestablished that the US will no longer pursue an apology tour, nor…retreat from the defense of its vital national interests. The contrast with the Obama Administration's constant flogging of the American ideal…could not be more profund"
 
Befuddled Biden's Soul for Sale Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Polling Place Published: January 2022
The new Democratic Party's once renowned "big tent" no longer has room for moderates, who variously are condemned or canceled, or even liberals, who favor big government but shy away from full-on socialism.
 
Beyond Slavery Jonathan W. Emord
Category: American Thought Published: January 2021
"The U.S. must get beyond slavery. We should not make every new generation a captive of the sins of the prior generation. We must embrace as a fundamental tenet the full promise of the Declaration of Independence."
 
Bureaucratic Oligarchy Rules at the FDA Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Medicine & Health Published: November 2010
"The [FDA], like many other Federal agencies, wields way too much authoritarian power. The bureaucracy has become sovereign, governing in a manner not unlike the absolute monarchies who were destined for rights abuses by America's revolutionary leaders."
 
Circus of the Absurd Jonathan W. Emord
Newsletter Article Category: American Thought Published: May 2021
"Pres. [Joe] Biden, by Executive Order, is . . . quite literally returning America to its own version of the Stone Age."
 
Confused Heretics Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Word & Images Published: January 2018
 
CRT's Cauldron of Lies Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Under the Microscope Published: March 2022
 
Did the President Sic IRS on Tea Party to Undermine Supreme Court Decision? Jonathan W. Emord
News View Category: National Affairs Published: April 2014
 
Every Life Matters Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: September 2015
"…Advocates of the Black Lives Matter movement are the ideological equivalents of white supremacists. Each subscribes to the ideology of race-based nationalism, an ideology uterly antithetical to freedom and justice."
 
Gratitude for--and on--July 4 Jonathan W. Emord
Category: USA Yesterday Published: July 2015
"When we celebrate Independence Day, we should be reminded of the rights revolution that gave birth to our nation, and grateful for the unique privilege of living in a land whose founding charter promises protection for the unalienable rights of man."
 
Illegal and Irrational Jonathan W. Emord
Category: National Affairs Published: July 2021
The argument for reparations is not meant to substitute existing laws but to satisfy a blatant racist desire to divide Americans, not predicated on those who provably discriminate but based solely on skin tone and ancestry.
 
Indecisiveness at the Top Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Worldview Published: November 2014
The President dithers while the world burns.
 
IRS Remains in Obama's Back Pocket Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Life in America Published: March 2014
"Because the Hispanic vote overwhelmingly favors Democrats, the abuses [concerning the child tax credit] are ignored by the Obama Administration and Senate majority. . . ."
 
Lawbreaker Extraordinaire Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Law & Justice Published: September 2016
"[Hillary] Clinton plainly violated the Espionage Act. Indeed, for 110 individual violations-the most committed by any American with the possible exception of Edward Snowden-the statute in question would require Clinton to be fined, imprisoned, or both."
 
Let the Holy War Begin in Earnest Jonathan W. Emord
Category: American Thought Published: January 2016
"Although our First Amendment protects all in their choice of what to believe and what to profess, it does not protect those who wish to translate their beliefs into acts of terror and conspiracies to commit terror."
 
Lying About Benghazi Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2016
Why would then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lie to the public and even to the families of slain Americans on the very day they and the nation received the coffins of those families' deceased loved ones?
 
More than Just a Woman Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2015
"If Clinton were to face Fiorina in a general election, a stark contrast would be apparent on the issues, and not on Clinton's trump card--gender--as a fallback [since Clinton] cannot remove herself from her own history of corruption, abuse of power,…"
 
Needless Needling Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Medicine & Health Published: May 2015
"To ensure adequate protection of individual rights, we must ensure that no measure adopted by the state is allowed to trump the Fourteenth Amendment and, in the case of free exercise of religion against vaccination, First Amendment grounds."
 
No Less than Our Liberty Is at Stake Jonathan W. Emord
Category: National Affairs Published: July 2011
"If the health reform law is upheld, the precedent established immediately and universally will deprive Americans of freedom and threaten to magnify that deprivation over time."
 
Pandemic Makes a Hard Left Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Under the Microscope Published: November 2021
"Pres. Joe Biden and his cohorts expect Americans to give up their freedoms and accept official mandates in servile and robotic obeisance."
 
Planned Parenthood's Evil Empire Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Medicine & Health Published: November 2015
"The Obama Administration and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton's defense of Planned Parenthood in the face of the revelations sharply reminds us that neither is possessed of even a modicum of deceny or respect for human life."
 
Poisonous Bureaucracy Jonathan W. Emord
Category: American Thought Published: September 2011
". . . Politics has triumphed over science, and bureaucratic control has replaced freedom of choice."
 
Political Correctness vs. the Church Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Religion Published: March 2015
"The law may not compel private churches and private businesses not of public accomodation to abandon beliefs on the grounds that some may be offended by those beliefs…"
 
Repeal but not Replace Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Medicine & Health Published: September 2017
"We should reject ObamaCare in totality, and 'replace' it not with additional government, but with no government at all."
 
Robo-Warfare Is the Answer to Terrorism Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Science & Technology Published: May 2011
"Life as a terrorist [soon] will be short-lived . . . Not due to suicide or capture, but because all who terrorize will be hunted down relentlessly until killed by faceless robotic warriors who need not feed, rest, nor expose Americans to high risks."
 
Sanctuary…Not! Jonathan W. Emord
Category: National Affairs Published: January 2017
"After [Pres. Donald] Trump is sworn into office, his first move should be to demand compliance with Federal law and warn that any state or local official who stands in the way of Federal law enforcement will be arrested and prosecuted."
 
Scolded by George Washington Jonathan W. Emord
Category: American Thought Published: November 2014
The Father of Our Country returns from "beyond the veil of Heaven" to warn about the abuses to the Constitution and the ideals that led to this nation's founding.
 
Securing the U.S. from Terror Trumps All Other Factors Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Worldview Published: January 2016
"We need to forbid immigration to the U.S. for any person who originally hails from a country in which terrorists recruit, conduct training, manufacture weapons, or perform tactical operations."
 
Socialism's Superhero Jonathan W. Emord
Category: American Thought Published: September 2021
"[Do] Bernie Sanders and AOC have large Soviet-style portraits of Felix Frankfurter hanging on the walls of their Washington offices alongside those of Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Mao Tse-tung, and Che Guevara. . . "?
 
State of the Disunion Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2012
". . . If the U.S. is to survive, recover, and prosper in the next half-decade, it must do so without [Pres. Barack] Obama, because it cannot do so with him."
 
Supreme Court Knocks Down Agency Barriers to Judicial Review Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Law & Justice Published: May 2012
Until we treat Federal agencies as equal before the law with those they accuse, we never will see justice meted out with impartiality.
 
The Administrative State on the Chopping Block Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Politcal Landscape Published: May 2017
"The President is doing more than any prior occupant of his office to end the era of government by bureaucratic oligarchy."
 
The Clinton Rule of Thumb Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2016
"If rules are inconvenient, [Hillary] violates or ignores them."
 
The FDA Condemns You to Death Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Medicine & Health Published: July 2012
The war on cancer has become a war dominated by friendly fire, where the medical troops fighting the battle more often than not kill the civilian patients they are supposed to protect.
 
The Food Police Have Arrived Jonathan W. Emord
Your Health Category: Nutrition Published: October 2011
 
The FTC and FDA Deprive Consumers of Vital Health Information Jonathan W Emord
Category: Medicine & Health Published: March 2011
"During the Obama Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, always a threat to free speech in the market, has become an even greater one, thus complementing the efforts of the Food and Drug Administration."
 
The Great Unraveling Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2017
"The measure of success for the Trump Administration hinges on rapid accomplishment of the President's campaign promises. Achieving those promises entails a great unraveling of all that was Obama."
 
These Three Kings Jonathan W. Emord
Category: USA Yesterday Published: March 2014
Martin Luther King Jr. stands shoulder to shoulder with Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln.
 
This Church Victory Is a Win for Everyone Jonathan W. Emord
Category: National Affairs Published: March 2012
"A government instituted among men to protect the rights of the governed must respect freedom of conscience in matters of religion equally and must leave organization and practices of religion beyond the reach of the state."
 
Time to End the Tyranny Jonathan W. Emord
Your Health Category: FDA Published: February 2011
 
Turning the Tables on Obama, Pelosi, and Reid Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2014
". . . The U.S. never can hope to regain its prosperity without restoring individual liberty and freedom of choice, and individual liberty and freedom of choice only can exist if the costly and burdensome Federal regulatory state is dismantled."
 
Unerasable Jonathan W. Emord
Category: National Affairs Published: November 2017
"Those who would destroy monument after monument to rid the nation of a subset of ugly parts of history do us all a grave disservice. They ignore the truths contained in the closing admonition in [Pres. Abraham] Lincoln's second Inaugural Address."
 
Why the Democratic Party Is the Enemy of the Republic Jonathan W. Emord
Category: American Thought Published: November 2011
"Democrats do not simply dissent from the Founding Fathers' conception of good government, they oppose that conception."
 
Why the Left Curses Cursive Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Education Published: September 2017
The failure to teach cursive to schoolchildren denies generations of youth the opportunity to appreciate an expressive form that is in every Anglo-American historical document before the age of the typewriter.
 
Why Trump Will Triumph Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2016
"[Voters] want a nation secured by impervious borders and a robust Second Amendment. [Donald] Trump champions those causes proudly--without qualification, apology, or politically correct language."
 
Will Winter Games Bring Same Summer Selfishness? Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Athletic Arena Published: November 2021
"The Olympic goal is to channel nationalism in ways that inspire peace and good sportsmanship, not serve as a forum to stoke the flames of social and political discord."