But They Can Burn the Constitution . . .

This rant was originally published in June of 1997.

House Joint Resolution 54:

Resolved that the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States:

"The Congress shall have the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States."

Judge For Yourself

This rant was originally published in January of 1998.

Voir Dire and the Fully Informed Jury

Don't fool yourself: This isn't a democracy and it was never meant to be. You wouldn't want to live under the rule of the majority. The majority of people don't give a damn about you and your problems.

That's why, in this country, we have a covenant that protects individuals from the whims of popular opinion. Our founding fathers knew that, sooner or later, we'd all find ourselves in the unfashionable minority. Without a stated list of inalienable rights, any one of us could be persecuted for our peculiarities and inconvenient dispositions.

In Praise of Archie Bunker

This is a reprint of a rant originally published in April of 1998.

The Move to Censor Racial Discourse

Ga-State Rep. Earl Ehrhart recently proposed that affirmative action was a program that had run its course and should be discontinued. The NAACP called him a racist and has targeted him for negative ads next election. Professor Philippe Rushton released scientific findings daring to suggest that there are physical differences between the races. His works were confiscated as "hate literature" and his university threatened to fire him if he would not recant. Alvaro Cordona, a student at UCLA, was confused when interviewers for a tutor position repeatedly stressed racial rage validation as a central role of a tutor. He agreed that he would help students who had experienced discrimination find help, but that he understood a tutor's job to be helping student's become coherent writers. He was told to come back when he understood what UCLA was really like.