The Vail Spot: Afterburner

Nemo me impune lacessit

No one provokes me with impunity

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No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Article 1, Section 9, Constitution of the United States

If this is the law of the land...why in a republic (little r) and as republicans, do we allow mere POLITICIANS to the right to use a "title of office" for the rest of their lives as if it were de facto a patent of nobility. Because, as republicans, this should NOT be the case...just saying...

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Saturday, January 04, 2014

Obama Has No Clothes: Afterburner with Bill Whittle

The exceptionally erudite expounds on a naked president:

via Ed Driscoll

Thursday, July 04, 2013

Afterburner: Dependence Day

Bill Whittle is back with another edition of Afterburner:

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Most of the powers that Congress has usurped to itself over the past 50 or so years...are in fact prohibited to it by the above amendment...think about that.