Christina Jeffery Ph.D., former U.S. House Historian, University Professor and Madison Forum Member, was the guest speaker at our Breakfast Meeting Saturday, March 30th at the “Come-N-Get It” Family Restaurant, 1409 Church Street Extension, Suite E, Marietta, Georgia 30060.
PART 1: Christina spoke on the topic of “The Natural Born Citizen Clause and National Security.”
PART 2: Q&A Session after Christina Jeffrey’s speech to the Madison Forum on “The Natural … Read more...
On March 30, Publius Huldah, Madison Forum member, presented the dangers of an Article V Convention. The event was hosted by the Acworth JBS and sponsored by the Madison Forum and Georgia Republican Assembly.
Publius provided the following handout sheets so that citizens can get a solid understanding of what an Article V Convention is and what it could mean for the future of our nation.
1. The State Flyer… Read more...
Former Congressman, Bob Barr, recently spoke to the Madison Forum on how administrations, especially the Obama Administration, use federal agencies and other stealth methods to enact gun controls without going through Congress and the legislative process. He outlined, in depth, ten ways the Obama Administration has used since taking office. Some of them may surprise you.
… Read more...My following column appeared on April 5, 1996 in the Cobb Chronicle. It is always worthwhile to check on where we are to determine if we are following the map for our ship of state. This is the first of a two part series on this subject.
By
Michael S. Opitz
The United States Supreme Court, in its historic 1964 decision, ruled that prayer in public schools is illegal because … Read more...
Last Wednesday, Cherokee Cattle Company and Jack Staver and friends welcomed a full house of people to participate in a debate on whether or not a Constitutional Convention would be good for our country. Lance Lamberton of Cobb Taxpayers Association defended a pro-Con Con position, while Publius Huldah, a retired lawyer, stood firmly against it. After their opening statements, the audience was welcomed to question Lance and Publius directly. The … Read more...
By Les Dunaway
If any of you needed more motivation to work hard on electing solid fiscal conservatives in 2014 & 2016, here’s some numbers.
Writing on zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden, “Entitlement America And The High Cost Of “Free”” lays out the statistics and the human cost of the entitlement society.
The political allure of free is so strong that an alarming number of people choose to become wards of the … Read more...
By Les Dunaway
Our elected representatives have, lately (and way past time) been criticized for writing laws that both did not and could not address the problem for which they were written and, at the same time, created yet more problems.
I am altogether confident that part of the problem is that of our representatives being less competent at fulfilling the duties of their office than at convincing their constituents … Read more...
By: Les Dunaway
The folks screaming for more gun laws after the Connecticut tragedy don’t seem to be aware of Chicago.
Chicago has been a lab experiment in gun rights and in the significance of the Second Amendment since the days of Al Capone.
… Read more...By: Les Dunaway
For the past year or more, I’ve been struggling with the fact that many people believe that social programs can be expanded without limit because taxes can be raised, without limit, to support them. The question I keep asking myself and everyone who’ll talk about it is “How can we help these people to understand that simple arithmetic demonstrates the fallacy of their belief?”
… Read more...By: Les Dunaway
There was great wailing and gnashing of teeth over the Supreme Court’s decision “upholding” Obamacare { Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act} in
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ET AL
v
SEBELIUS, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, ET AL.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, in the majority opinion, what can, arguably, be called the most convoluted decision in the history of the … Read more...
By M.G. Anderson
Will Liberty remain with a nation without virtue among its people? No, answered the Patriots who founded our nation. When asked his opinion on our new constitutional government Ben Franklin cautioned “It is A Republic … If you can keep it.”
When reading the words of the other Colonial Patriots one asks “How did they define virtue?” In their day they drew from commonly familiar Biblical accounts … Read more...