Virginia Right!

Some veterans are going to be furious when they read this post.  But take that anger and use it wisely:  Channel it into getting this turned around! Many veterans groups SUPPORT the BAD UN Disabilities Treaty.  The American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Wounded Warrior Project and the Disabled American Veterans all support [...]

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The Enumerated Powers of the Federal Government How would it be if you were playing in a game and in the middle of it, the rules were changed in favor of your opponent so that they were then ahead and ended up winning? So it is with our country and our rulebook, the Constitution. Its [...]

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Parental Rights (www.parentalrights.org) is reporting in its email it sends to me and seven million other people that the calls are overwhelmingly against the treaty but the emails are about 50-50! According to our contacts on the Hill, Senate offices are getting pounded with calls regarding the CRPD, and most of those calls are against [...]

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My review of the 2009 Anti-Doping Code gets worse for liberty and sovereignty lovers.  There is a provision that says if you do not enact the associated with the Anti-Doping Code can’t be in the Olympics! 23.5 Additional Consequences of a Signatory’s Noncompliance with the Code Noncompliance with the Code by any Signatory may result [...]

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I was pleased (thanks to parentalrights.org) to report that former PA Senator and Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has expressed his opposition to the UN Treaty on the Rights of the Disabled: Rick and Karen Santorum said: “The ultimate responsibility of all parents is to care for your child, a responsibility that only takes on added [...]

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Parentalrights.org has made a great argument as to why we should not ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).  I have largely incorporated it here at this blog post: But there is another treaty that has some of the fears that the UNCRC has (and which is generally shared with other [...]

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Seems this is a season for United Nations treaties.  We have the usual two:  CEDAW and the UN Child Treaty.  Not too much on CEDAW but this report that the CEDAW committee criticized Brazil for not pushing abortion and also that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is reported to call for “reproductive rights [...]

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The NY Times gets it mostly wrong again in its editorial, Detained in Libya. A Libyan militia has detained four officials of the International Criminal Court since Thursday on spurious charges. They should be released immediately. The Times is probably right as far as it goes.  ICC officials should be treated with respect.  But here’s [...]

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While I am not completely happy with the Pirate Party movement, it is a step toward liberty.  It is good to read this blog from the Pirate’s one member of the European Parliament from Sweden:  Amelia Andersdotter: A few highlights: Prague declaration on Pirate Party Europe ratifiedAmong the internationally significant decisions of the weekend was [...]

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Henry Luce will surely blow a gasket in heaven (if that is possible!) at this news story in his own magazine:  Time.  The one the anti-Communist Whittaker Chambers used to write for.  This column in Time in 2012 calls for the US to ratify the UN Child Treaty.  Yes the sovereignty killing, parental rights destroying [...]

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Did I go back in the WABAC machine?  Where’s Peabody and Mr. Sherman to help me? I was in college at Wright State and I debated the student government chairman on the ERA in 1978 or 1979!  I quoted good people like Prof. Freund and Eagle Forum to show the ERA would cause women to [...]

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Two stories from Europe illustrate how dangerous the European Union has become for national sovereignty and liberty – and our interests as well: The first one is the revisit of the infamous prisoners’ vote issue.  It simply is outrageous for convicted prisoners serving time to get the right to vote.  But the European Court of [...]

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CEDAW is a bad UN (my readers know what this is!) treaty that would do all sorts of harm to the USA and its legal system. In 2010, many groups apparently tried to use Mother’s day as a rally date for CEDAW.  I am afraid their well-meaning efforts could have caused great harm.  Let’s turn [...]

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David B. Rivkin, Jr. and Lee A. Casey are attorneys who worked in the Bush administration; when virtually all the legal academic articles came out in favor of US ratification of the International Criminal Court, Lee Casey wrote in the Fordham International Law Journal that the Constitution and an ancient Supreme Court case (Ex parte [...]

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America has one thing to be thankful for this holiday season – that Congress has adjourned. After the voters spoke in November, this Congress tells voters in a clear voice: We hear you and say ‘go screw yourself’ Republicans now have some fixing to do. And even more explaining. Both parties got the message. There [...]

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With Congress back from its Thanksgiving break, Democrats once again have an opportunity to prove that they heard the message Americans sent Washington on election day by focusing on the priorities of the American people: helping the economy and preventing a massive tax increase in January. Yet Democrats continue to show that their priorities are [...]

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CEDAW (the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women) is more bad UN (all together now:  Redundant!) law.  It’s a treaty that allegedly ends discrimination against women.  It has been around for many years since President Carter first proposed it (one more reason to oppose it) for US ratification.  There is [...]

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That title ought to get readers but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.  Paul Krugman talks about how the Euro is an artificial currency: I remember quipping, back when the Maastricht Treaty setting Europe on the path to the euro was signed, that they chose the wrong Dutch city for the ceremony. It [...]

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