CONSTITUTION

VV Daily Press
August 14, 2016

Liberal media cartel vs. Donald Trump

The worst enemies to America’s constitutionals freedoms are President Obama, Hillary Clinton, congressional Democrats and the liberal media cartel that supports them. Indeed, under the Obama administration, our social, political, economic, domestic and national security are at all-time lows.

Clearly, the liberal media has abdicated their freedom of the press responsibilities for fair and objective reporting. Instead they have chosen a path similar to Russia’s state media, Pravda under the direction of overbearing government that violates the people’s freedoms, and attacks any resistance.

Surely, the only way America’s future can be protected against intrusive, domineering government, and a world wrought with terrorism will be to reject a continued Obama regime with Hillary Clinton, elect Republican Donald Trump president and increase Republican majorities in the House and Senate.

And the only way that will happen is if voters wise-up to the media cartel’s relentless attacks against Donald Trump and reject Hillary Clinton’s history of corruption. Otherwise, the 2016 presidential election will result in voter-assisted suicide.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
June 2, 2016

California socialists vs. America

Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, indoctrinated students, unions, illegal aliens and the Socialist State of California have made is painfully and violently clear that Republican candidate, Donald Trump, is an enemy of the socialist state.

Indeed, America is already in deep trouble because of President Obama’s 7 ½-year socialist assault on our Constitution, our free society, our free market economy, our domestic security and our national security.

So, it’s now a matter of a political war between anti-American socialists and Republican freedom fighters, currently being led Donald Trump for our survival as true constitutional democratic republic.

Attention voters: Vote for freedom and recovery. Not for giving up to socialism and surrendering to terrorism. Don’t be a fool!

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
April 11, 2016

Obama and Pravda

President Obama’s speech at the Journalism awards ceremony, telling them that Journalists should hold (Republican) presidential candidates accountable for their actions and policy statements confirms his undue influence over the already liberal news media.

Indeed, President Obama speaks as the acting chairman of the liberal ( Putin-controlled Pravda light-like) news media in furthering his corrosive fundamental transformation of the United States America from a Democratic Republic to an authoritarian-style state. No accountability allowed.

Unfortunately, Mr. Obama began his life as one of the last members of the heavy-laden liberal element of the Boomer generation, who infected their children and the next generation in their hostile counter-cultural and political takeover of the safe conservative-American republic as it was founded.

Alas, the Clintons were the first of the Boomer generation, and Obama has been the last and end-all of an insidious revolution, which could end it all for our freedom. Particularly if Hillary Clinton becomes president as the power and greed commander-in-chief.

Clearly, Obama, Clinton and the liberal media have betrayed the Constitution and the First Amendment. Donald Trump is a troubling alternative, but far better than a Clinton-continued calamity….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
March 28, 2016

Valley Voices
Commentary

Supreme Court Injustice

By Daniel Jeffs

Democrats and the liberal news media never let up with their tyrannical intimidation of conservatives to further their insidious agenda against America and the traditional values of the Founders.

Indeed, the Supreme Court has become the focal point of what’s wrong with our society, under siege by socialists who are determined to undermine our Constitution and our founding principles.

Clearly, the leaders of the war against America are well-documented in our history, including what was supposed to be the chief safeguard of our Constitution. The Supreme Court of the United States.

Surely, the brutal liberal lynching by Senate Judiciary Sen. Joe Biden against Supreme Court nominees Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas is clear and convincing evidence of authoritarian Democrats against the Constitution.

Certainly, Republican mistakes have been made in the appointments of Supreme Court Justices, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O’Conner, Anthony Kennedy, and Chief Justice John Roberts – not to mention the drastic mistake of Chief Justice Earl Warren by President Eisenhower….

Of course, Democrat presidents Clinton and Obama have ensured the Court’s liberal agenda and indifference to Constitutional law with the appointments of justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

Alas, the latest grave injustice is being attempted by President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland, an Anthony Kennedy-like teetering centrist/socialist to replace the deeply troubling constitutional originalist vacancy left by deceased patriot Justice Antonin Scalia. Yet will still have patriot Justice Samuel Alito.

Sadly, that’s the authoritarian liberal way of President Obama’s terms of contempt for America, by simply ignoring and circumventing the Constitution. Supreme Court injustice, indeed, like the presidency and government, the Supreme Court problem is systemic. Absolute power in government and on the Court corrupts, absolutely.

We, the American people must correct it, for our survival….

Daniel B. Jeffs is an Apple Valley resident

VV Daily Press
March 23, 2016

Supreme Court Injustice

Democrats and the liberal news media never let up with their tyrannical intimidation of conservatives to further their insidious agenda against America and the traditional values of the Founders.

Indeed, the Supreme Court has become the focal point of what’s wrong with our society, under siege by socialists who are determined to undermine our Constitution and our founding principles.

Clearly, the leaders of the war against America are well-documented in our history, including what was supposed to be the chief safeguard of our Constitution. The Supreme Court of the United States.

We, the American people must correct it, for our survival….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Diego Union-Tribune
February 18, 2016

Readers weigh in on replacing Justice Scalia

President Obama’s assertion that he is going to nominate an undisputable replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is simply another example of his monarchial arrogance.

Indeed, he should know better, however, considering his history of unlawful executive orders and edicts circumventing the Congress and the Constitution, Mr. Obama is incapable of deviating from his insidious legacy of fundamentally transforming America.

Alas, President Obama can’t help himself.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad

Press Enterprise
February 17. 2016

LETTERS: President Obama just doing his job

Re: “Scalia was a defender of our ideals” [Letters, Feb. 16]: Daniel B. Jeffs says that the president “wrongfully intends to nominate a justice” to the Supreme Court. And Mr. Jeffs notes that Justice Scalia was “a great loss to the enforcement and defense of the original intent of the U.S. Constitution.”

Scalia was an “originalist.” So how would he assess Mr. Jeffs‘ remarks?

The Constitution, in Article 2, Section 2, specifies that the president “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint” judges to the Supreme Court.

There is no creative interpretation of this power granted by the Constitution. “Nominate” and “appoint” are two separate verbs, set in clauses separated by commas, to denote two separate acts.

Nothing wrongful about it: The president nominates and, with the advice and consent of the Senate, can then appoint.

Nobody anticipated that a Supreme Court justice would pass away in the heat of election season, but it has happened some six times. And in all those cases, the Senate did its job of providing an up or down vote on nominees.

What Mr. Jeffs is really telling us is that he prefers the president not do his job. Then, the opposition can add it to their mantra of campaign rhetoric.

But all the president needs do is to submit successive names to the Senate, as if passing business cards. And if he does – as he most certainly will – the ball is in play. It is entirely uncertain as to how the complete refusal of the Senate to do its own part will affect the votes up for grabs in November.

So this is nothing but a board game of political checkers. The opposition is begging the president in so many words not to make his move when it’s his turn.

It just seems obtuse for the begging to appear in a diatribe such as those we’ve read or heard since 2009. A graceful genuflection it is not.

Randy Bednorz

Riverside

(My response to Mr. Bednorz)

Re: Randy Bednorz letter
“President Obama just doing his job”

President Obama full of Obama

Sadly, Randy Bednorz’s condescending attack letter in blind support of President Obama comes as no surprise from among miseducation graduates of the liberal indoctrination class of useful idiots.

President Obama’s assertion that he is going to nominate an undisputable replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is simply another example of his monarchial arrogance.

Surely, he should know better, however, considering his history of unlawful executive orders and edicts circumventing the Congress and the Constitution, Mr. Obama is incapable of deviating from his insidious legacy of fundamentally transforming America.

Alas, President Obama can’t help himself from being inextricably full of Obama.

Unfortunately, he and his lemmings have placed all Americans at extreme risk by undermining our society, our economy, and our domestic and national security.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
February 16, 2016

Valley Voices

Revolting development scenarios

By Daniel B. Jeffs

The rise of uncivilized Islamic assaults on civilization in the world, have been exacerbated by the rise of uncivilized technology resulting in superficial societies of selfish interests, social aggression, political tyranny, economic stress and extremes – particularly in America.

Indeed, America -- the model and historical leader of peace and freedom in the world -- has been severely undermined by the post-WWII cultural revolution resulting in tearing down our established institutions, corrupting our society and diminishing our freedoms.

Clearly, the revolting developments have been caused by social, political and economic extremists from the 1960’s and 70’s, who spawned countercultural hate and decay in society and government, leaving America vulnerable to attack by enemies from within and the outside.

Which leads us the revolting political developments of now and how we got here. Alas, most Democrats have made a costly mess of things, and most Republicans have been less than efficient in cleaning it up. The best of both have been Kennedy and Reagan. The worst: Carter, Clinton and Obama.

Surely, the best outcome for the 2016 presidential election would be either Rubio, Kasich, Christie or Fiorina. The worst would be Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, with Barack Obama on the Supreme Court. The elephant in the room isn’t really an elephant. He’s certainly not a Trump card. He’s a dangerous anomaly.

Presidential race to oblivion?

It’s still the economy, stupid is not Hillary Clinton’s truth any more than it was in 1992, when Bill Clinton schemed his way into the presidency, then undermined the economy by causing the unaffordable housing and financial collapse of 2008.

Indeed, the counter cultural revolution and decades of extremist and socialist indoctrination by the miseducation and media cartel came to fruition with the 2008 election of Barack Obama, humiliating John McCain and the bumbling Republican Party, and assigning Hillary Clinton to dismantle foreign policy and escalate terrorism.

Now, the 2016 presidential race to America’s oblivion is on again, with corruption-in-her-heart and fire-in-her-eyes Hillary Clinton leading, challenged by the cranky old socialist Bernie Sanders and his wild-young indoctrinated crowd of supporters.

Of course, they’re being chased by a narrowing herd of patriotic Republicans, stampeded by wheeler-dealer Donald Trump, and struggling to gain traction with Cruz, Rubio, Carson, Christie and Kasich – with a Bush in the background.

Alas, the liberal media curse is the venomous snake in the grass that will frighten the voter multitude all the way through to the poisoned finish line. Hopefully, the American voters will be concerned enough to find the antidote and a way back to the strong tradition of who we are: Home of the brave and land of the free.

Question is, who will it be? First woman,? first Hispanic? or who? -- I vote for Kasich/Fiorina, for political sanity.

Daniel B. Jeffs is an Apple Valley resident and retired law enforcement officer who served on two San Bernardino County Grand Juries.

Riverside Press Enterprise
February 16, 2016

Scalia was a defender of our ideals

The untimely death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is a great loss to the enforcement of and defense of the original intent and interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, our founding document. Indeed, he was a great jurist and true American.

Unfortunately, President Obama announced that he would nominate a successor to Justice Scalia rather than leaving the nomination to the next president to be elected this year.

Of course, he wrongfully intends to nominate a justice who would carry out his legacy of fundamentally transforming America to a legacy of tearing down our Republic and our future of freedom, as he continues to circumvent the Congress and the Constitution with executive orders and monarchial edicts, unabated.

Clearly, the Republican Senate must reject Mr. Obama’s nomination to the court. Our country has suffered enough under his administration, seriously damaging our domestic and national security.

Again, our only hope is to elect a strong conservative president such as Sen. Marco Rubio, maintain a Republican Congress and replace the leading conservative voice on the Court with a constitutionalist like Justice Scalia.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
July 13, 2015

Greece betrayed Democracy

Since the birth of Democracy in 5th Century BC, Athens by Pericles, Greece has betrayed democracy by using it to establish a self-destructive society strangled by self-imposed socialism. Indeed, the Greek people became too reliant on government providing them with all the benefits of living without responsibility, and rejecting government austerity.

Clearly, in the centuries since the success of Pericles direct democracy, it has been demonized as being the tyranny of the majority and the people voting themselves largess. However, a socialist-style society is vulnerable to be consumed by Communism, wherein a dictatorship government owns everything, including the people, who have no rights, no property, and become slaves of the state.

Alas, the world knows that through many years of tyrannical monarchies, the dictatorial socialism/fascism such as Germany and Italy -- and the scourge of Communist Russia, China, North Korea and Cuba -- are the mortal enemies of freedom.

Indeed, America became the hope of the world by separating from a monarchy with a revolutionary war and establishing a unique constitutional republic of representative democracy and all the freedoms that came with it -- for as long as we could hold on to it. And we have, against and all enemies, foreign and domestic. Yet, even here, the tyranny of the minority and the evils of socialism have grown and persist with indoctrination, government growth and the abuse of power.

Surely, with the additional threat of terrorism against us, we have reached critical crossroads and must recover and survive. The only way to do that is to truthfully inform the people and establish a direct representative democracy, wherein professional government managers – not politicians – are elected. They must be confirmed each year, and must truthfully inform the voters. Voters would decide all matters of taxation and public policy. We can do that with a 28th Amendment to the Constitution.

Greece lost its roots of democracy and failed. America cannot to the same.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Diego Union-Tribune
June 26, 2015

Supreme Court betrays America again

Chief Justice Roberts -- nominated by President Bush – was a stealth liberal in conservative clothing as evidenced by upholding nationalized Obamacare twice along with other rulings in conflict with the law and the Constitution.

Worse, Chief Justice Roberts’ deeply-flawed reasoning for the decision was based upon the people electing a Congress to enact Obamacare, even though it was done by a Democrat majority behind closed doors with no debate.

Indeed, the liberal super-majority on the Court is blatantly supporting President Obama’s monarchial mandate to fundamentally transform America from a constitutional republic into a socialist nation.

Surely, Roberts’ Court will back President Obama’s legacy as the first black president, regardless of the social, political, economic and constitutional harm to America and the people.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad

Riverside Press Enterprise
March 25, 2015

Incompetent water managers

Gov. Jerry Brown and the legislature cannot be trusted to ameliorate the water crisis with a billion dollar Band-Aid, or tapping into more of the $7.3 billion water bond approved by the voters in November, unless the funds are used to improve the water system for real.

Unfortunately, too many elected officials (and activist judges) live in a political fantasyland, rather than in the real world.

Instead, what is now needed is to either cancel Brown’s $68 billion bullet train boondoggle and land-grab, or use the bond funds to address the drought and our water delivery in a meaningful, lasting manner. Clearly, if Central and Southern California dry up, it would be a train to nowhere.

In terms of the State Water Project delivering contracted water supplies to Central California farmers and Southern California consumers (paid for and maintained by property owners): We are to receive only 20 percent of our water allotment this year, up from our next-to-nothing 5 percent of our water allotment last year.

Indeed, much of that problem would be resolved by eliminating the extreme environmentalist federal court decision cutting 30 percent of our water from the Sacramento Delta to protect the tiny Delta Smelt at the expense of human health and welfare, and allowing millions of acre-feet of our fresh water to flow wastefully to the ocean.

This is unconstitutional interference with private contracts for the sake of suicidal environmental insanity at the expense of crops, the California economy, and human life. Alas, the federal judge and Brown might get the point if they were dropped out here in the middle of the Mojave Desert with half-full canteens of water.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
January 19, 2015

Call it what it is: Treason

An Ohio man, and radicalized Muslim convert, Christopher Cornell, was arrested for plotting to attack the capitol.

This is a treasonous plot to overthrow our government, but he will undoubtedly no be charged with treason. Others who should be charged with treason include Major Nidal Hasan, Sgt, Bowe Burgdahl, Pvt. Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, American Muslim imams who support arming the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and all the American citizens who went to fight with ISIS.

But they won’t be.

This is particularly the case with President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder in office, who fail to support and defend the Constitution and the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. No one has been charged with treason for many years.

Why?

This is a serious matter that should be looked into by our elected representatives and the media. Our survival is at stake.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
July 10,2014

With no remorse

Since he took office, President Obama began his transformation of America and abdicated his responsibility to enforce laws that do not fit his agenda including immigrations laws and the protection of our southern border. Indeed, his intentional failures have turned into a crisis of illegal aliens flowing across the border, including many children from South America -- 100,000 and counting -- most of whom will not be deported.

It's bad enough that there are already about 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States, who are a heavy drain on the states and taxpayers required to provide them with health care, housing, welfare and education. President Obama has purposely exacerbated the problem with open border invitations for millions more, as if North America and South America were one.

Worse, President Obama has seriously violated our country's sovereignty, our economy and our domestic and national security -- by allowing mass illegal immigration, including potential terrorists, criminals and drugs to cross the border -- plus his failed foreign policy stimulating the proliferation of fanatical terrorists in the Middle East who are dedicated to the destruction of America -- with no remorse.

Alas, coupled with the steady growth of already big government, overreaching regulations, punishing taxation, and the loss of freedoms, President Obama, his administration and liberal Democrats' abuse of power are a clear and present danger to our country and American citizens, which can only be overcome by changing the executive, legislative and judicial branches of our government to constitutional limited government -- with our votes. It's a matter of our survival.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Bernardino Sun
July 10, 2014

Obama abdicates duty to protect border

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Los Angeles Times
Opinion L.A.
July 9, 2014

President Obama abdicates duty to protect border

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

FIRST PRINCIPLES
by John B. Taylor
Senior Fellow in Economics
Hoover Institution

CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATISM
by Peter Berkowitz
Hoover Institution

Daily Press Apple Valley Review
July 16, 2013

President Obama: Constitutional violator

President Obama violated the Article II, Section 3 Constitutional duty that the president "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed," with his failure to execute the activation of the health care employer mandate law by delay -- which was obviously done to avoid 2014 mid-term election problems.

Indeed, failing to faithfully execute laws is nothing new for the president, who has habitually failed to execute illegal immigration laws, and to secure our borders, leaving us vulnerable to the increased invasion of criminals and terrorists.

Worse, President Obama has abused his power by creating laws by executive order and edict to the Dept. of Interior, the Energy Dept. and with EPA administrative laws to further his green energy agenda with unreasonable fees and punishing taxes.

Taken together, President Obama's tyrannical "unaffordable health careless act" -- and his relentless assaults on our nation's affordable oil and coal energy resources -- will surely drive our economy ever deeper into debt and decline.

Clearly, when one man -- President Obama -- and one Party -- Democrat -- cause our country and our people to live steeped in social, political, economic and national security fear and uncertainty, the 2014 mid-term and 2016 presidential elections will surely become a reckoning for our future.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
July 10, 1013

Recall Harris, Brown

Attorney General Kamala Harris continued her activism on behalf of homosexual causes by requesting that the stay on same-sex unions be immediately lifted in California following the Supreme Court's ruling on Prop. 8 ("Gay marriages resume," June 29).

Once it was lifted, she then went on to preside over a gay wedding.

This is outrageous malfeasance.

Gov. Jerry Brown and Harris violated their oaths of office by refusing to defend Prop. 8 simply because their personal agendas were against the will of the people who voted to prohibit gay marriage.

Worse, the Supreme Court betrayed democracy and the Constitution by saying the sponsors of Prop. 8 did not have legal standing to appeal.

And this was after the ballot measure was struck down by Vaughn Walker, a gay federal judge in San Francisco.

How was it not a conflict of interest for Walker to hear the matter?

The decisions against the majority of California voters were unconstitutional and unconscionable.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

(original letter)

Recall Attorney General Kamala Harris and Governor Brown

Attorney General Kamala Harris continued her gay activism by asking the federal 9th Circuit to lift its stay immediately, which was done, then performing the first gay marriage in California -- which is outrageous malfeasance.

It didn't matter that former Attorney General, now Governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris violated their oaths of office by refusing to defend Proposition 8 simply because their personal agendas were against the will of the people, who passed the state constitutional amendment by a 52 percent vote, prohibiting gay marriage -- which was over 7 million voters in a nearly 80 percent voter turnout. Harris and Brown should be recalled.

Worse, Chief Justice Roberts and the Supreme Court majority betrayed democracy and the Constitution by saying the sponsors of Proposition 8 did not have legal standing to appeal after the ballot measure was struck down by Vaughn Walker, a gay federal judge in San Francisco, which was a conflict of interest. Both decisions against the majority of California voters were unconstitutional and unconscionable.

The proponents of Proposition 8 did have standing. In a final appeal to stop the marriages, they were maliciously denied by Justice Kennedy as was the institution of marriage.

Los Angeles Times
July 2, 2013

Letters: Love and the courts

California Atty. Gen Kamala Harris played the role of an activist by calling on the 9th Circuit to lift its stay immediately, which it did.

It didn't matter to her that she herself and her predecessor, Jerry Brown, now the governor, violated their oaths of office by refusing to defend Proposition 8, which passed in 2008 with the support of more than 7 million voters. Harris and Brown deserve to be recalled.

Worse, the Supreme Court betrayed democracy and the Constitution by saying that the sponsors of Proposition 8 did not have legal standing to appeal. This decision against the majority of voters was unconscionable. Proposition 8's proponents did have standing. In a final appeal to stop the marriages, they were denied, as was the institution of marriage.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

(original letter)

Recall Attorney General Kamala Harris and Governor Brown

The proponents of Proposition 8 did have standing. In a final appeal to stop the marriages, they were maliciously denied by Justice Kennedy as was the institution of marriage.

San Diego Union-Tribune
March 24, 2013

Sen. Feinstein vs. Sen. Cruz in gun control debate: Feinstein loses - not the war

In a rancorous debate with Texas Sen. Cruz over her gun control legislation, California Sen. Feinstein said that she resented being lectured like a 6-year-old, and that while mayor of San Francisco, she visited crime scenes and saw dead people that had been shot.

Unfortunately, while mayor of San Francisco, Feinstein also damaged the police investigation of "Night Stalker" serial killer Richard Ramirez by giving out investigative details to the press, which enraged investigators and delayed his capture -- costing more lives.

Feinstein and other intrusive Democrats have a long history of sticking their unconstitutional political noses where they don't belong, like making our Mojave Desert off-limits to private development, and sticking government group homes in private single-family neighborhoods, raising crime and lowering property values.

Sen. Feinstein lost a battle but not the war against freedom. The dynamic-duo demons of federal and California state government will never give up -- unless we take the sword-slashing-liberty away from them: Being elected and re-elected.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad

San Diego Union-Tribune
December 15, 2012

Connecticut shootings

Connecticut shootings means war against guns

The immediate reaction by the liberal media, President Obama and other anti-gun politicians to the tragic shootings of children and teachers at the elementary school in Connecticut signals an all out war against guns, which could very well lead to a movement to disarm the American people. This coupled with recent mass shootings and others is a manufactured crisis that the president and congressional Democrats will not let go to waste. Particularly, as a distortion and distraction from the social and fiscal crisis.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad

San Bernardino County Sun
July 8, 2012

Power Move

Chief Justice Roberts' decision was a power move, not for the integrity of the Court. Justice Kennedy should have been the decider.

Thomas Jefferson prophetically feared that the Supreme Court would consolidate all power in Washington, which began with Jefferson's cousin, Chief Justice John Marshall -- President John Adams' mistake. Chief Justice Roberts may become President Bush's Chief Justice Earl Warren in further expanding the power of federal government, as clearly demonstrated by Roberts' national health care decision.

Indeed, Justice Anthony Kennedy's vigorous dissent manifested that he should have been the Supreme Court decider knocking down President Obama's federal power grab.

Clearly, the time is urgent for state legislatures to petition for a constitutional convention to amend the Constitution with a balanced budget amendment to reduce the size, scope and power of federal government -- and another to restore power usurped from the states. Otherwise, our constitutional republic and our liberty may be lost forever.

It's time to declare our independence, again!

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Sacramento Bee
April 6, 2012

President Obama's contempt of Court

President Obama's hypocritical attacks on the Supreme Court -- the third branch of government -- as an unelected activist body are only because the majority are conservative and may decide against his signature unconstitutional health care law. However, activist judges and courts are almost always liberal, and they tend to legislate from the bench.

A prime example is a federal judge in California who unconstitutionally interfered with the contracts of California Water Contractors by severely reducing the delivery of water from the California Water Project (paid for and maintained by property taxes on users) to Central California farms and 25 million people in Southern California, simply because -- at the behest of radical conservationist groups, a tiny Delta Smelt fish was perceived to be threatened.

Since then, environmentalists had Stripped Bass planted in the Delta, which devastated the Smelt. Conveniently, no public news on that.

Riverside Press Enterprise
December 26, 2011

Gingrich right on courts

Newt Gingrich was correct in the concerns he raised about the federal judiciary in the Iowa Republican debate. Thomas Jefferson was prophetic when he warned that “the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary … advancing … over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all shall be consolidated into one.”

He added that centralized power “will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.”

Considering the unabated growth of federal government power, from FDR to LBJ — and now President Obama’s health care mandates, and energy, finance and administrative regulations — Jefferson’s fears are being realized.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

(Original letter)

Gingrich on the judiciary

Newt Gingrich was correct in his Iowa Republican Debate concerns about the federal judiciary. As early as 1821, Thomas Jefferson was prophetic when he warned… 'that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary… advancing over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the states, and the government of all shall be consolidated into one… drawn to Washington as the center of all power…'

Jefferson added that centralized power, '…will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.' Considering the unabated growth and advance of federal government and power, from FDR, to LBJ -- and now President Obama's unconstitutional health care mandates, energy, finance and administrative regulations -- Jefferson's fears, now ours, are clearly being realized.

Indeed, the long-term inundation of attorney-driven, unreasonably complicated local, state and federal laws, and activist courts -- coupled with the predatory legal industry -- have restricted our freedoms and raised the cost of living beyond control.

USA TODAY
July, 23, 2011

Re: Administration, GOP downplay report of deal
USA TODAY Weekend July 22-24, 2011

No balanced budget amendment, no deal

The Senate just tabled the House proposed balanced budget amendment. If sending a balanced budget amendment to the states for ratification is not part of GOP/Democrat deal, there should be no deal on the debt ceiling. The centerpiece of the Republican "Contract with America" was a balanced budget amendment, which lost in the Senate by one vote in 1995. That one NO voter was Republican Senator Mark Hatfield, who was out of office by 1996 election. Indeed, every Senator and Representative who voted against the amendment should have been voted out of office.

Over three fourths of the states have balanced budget amendments, which is what it would take to ratify a federal balanced budget amendment. In fact, nearly the required two thirds of the states have already petitioned Congress for a constitutional convention to propose amendments to the Constitution. President Obama cannot take part in congressional passing of a proposed amendment, with a veto, as it should be. The enormous national debt and economic crash is government malfeasance and a national disgrace.

Former president Bill Clinton's recent statement to circumvent Congress with his view of the 14th Amendment to raise the debt comes as no surprise. His presidency is directly responsible for causing the housing bubble and the economic meltdown. Paul Sperry's book, "The Great American Bank Robbery," tells exactly how. Why is Clinton escaping blame? Maybe because President Obama a Democrat Congress added $4 trillion to the debt, while he, Holder and HUD, Dodd and Frank are doing what Clinton did, again. Government by crisis is what Democrats do, then blame Republicans for their abuse of power. A balanced budget amendment is the only way to control it.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

The Washington Examiner
July 8, 2011

Time to declare our independence again

Re: "A day to remind government of the Founders' vision," July 5

America's economic crisis and deepening recession makes it painfully clear that the nation's evolution away from our founding principles has dangerously eroded our freedom and liberties and resulted in excessive taxation, unabated government growth, constitutional circumvention, overregulation, and abuse of power.

Indeed, liberal power politics created a monarchial presidency, a kangaroo Congress, and star-chamber courts that have become nearly as tyrannical as the government from which we separated. Unconstitutional cancers have metastasized throughout most state governments, with the largest tumors in California and New York.

It is clearly time for voters in every state to declare their independence again by calling for a repeal of the 16th Amendment, the enactment of a "fair tax," and a balanced-budget amendment to reduce the size, scope and power of government and restore the limited government intent of our Constitution. Only then can its promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness be fully realized.

Daniel B. Jeffs

Apple Valley, Calif.

(Original letter):

Re: A day to remind government of the Founders' vision - editorial

Time to declare independence again

This July 4th Independence Day highlights America's economic crisis and deepening recession, which is making it painfully clear that the nation's liberal/socialist evolution -- away from our founding principles and constitutional security -- has dangerously eroded our freedom and liberties.

The last half of the existence of our United States of America has been wrought with excessive taxation, unabated government growth, constitutional circumvention, over-regulation and the abuse of power.

Indeed, liberal-power-politics produced ideological infections that evolved into a monarchial presidency, a kangaroo Congress, and star-chamber courts, which have become nearly as tyrannical as the government from which we separated.

Surely, the unconstitutional cancers have metastasized throughout most state governments -- particularly the largest tumors such as California and New York -- that will certainly become terminal, along with nationalized monopolies in public education which have indoctrinated our children and sustained the assaults on freedom.

It is clearly time for voters in every state to declare independence again -- call for a repeal of the 16th (income tax) Amendment, the enactment of a "Fair Tax," and a balanced budget amendment -- to reduce the size, scope and power of government -- and restore the limited government intent of our Constitution. Only then can the promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness be fully realized.

CONSTITUTIONAL AWARENESS
John Buglar, founder
http://www.constitutionalawareness.org

The Wall Street Journal
May 19, 2010

Oath Compels Empathy Restraint

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704635204575242382739479958.h tml?mod=article-outset-box

The May 17 letters share doubts about the absolute prohibition of any role for the personal empathies of Supreme Court justices.

Rather than restraint, President Obama's "trailblazing" Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, represents what is wrong with the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary. They have gone far beyond the limits of the Constitution, usurped power from the states and allowed the legislative and executive branches to do the same.

That's why the limited government specified in the Constitution has been turned into a growth industry.

(Unedited letter sent May 17, 2010):

The Constitution does not support judicial empathy, activism, philosophy or anything else but support for what is written in our founding document.

Rather than 'restraint,' President Obama's 'trailblazing' Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan represents what is wrong with the Court and the federal judiciary, which have gone far beyond the limits of the Constitution, usurped power from the states and allowed the legislative and executive branches to do the same.

Legacy-obsessed presidents come and go, however, their Senate-confirmed Supreme Court justice life-appointees can support or break constitutional law. Indeed, that's why limited government has been turned into a socialist growth industry, and that's what brings many judges of the Supreme and inferior courts 'good behavior' into impeachable question.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/14/court-nominees-bound-to-heed-constitution/
The Washington Times
May 14, 2010

Court nominees bound to heed Constitution

President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, has clearly exercised moderation and 'restraint' on her ambitious road to the Court. ("Kagan gets Obama nod as pick for high court," Page 1, Tuesday)

However, once confirmed by the Senate, this 'trailblazing lady' will undoubtedly be on the hunt for new constitutional ground in her ideological quest to push Mr. Obama's brand of socialism into the federal government.

Alas, it is highly disturbing that for a hundred years or more, both liberal and conservative ideologies of Supreme Court justices have usurped power from the states and strayed dangerously from their sworn duty to support the Constitution and the laws pursuant to it, which is the supreme law of the land.

The make-up of the Court may be politically correct, but our Constitution was never supposed to be subjected to the injustice of being a 'living document' to be circumvented, manipulated, altered or ignored by the Supreme Court, the federal and state judiciary, or other branches of government.

The Washington Examiner

April 15, 2010

Supreme Court pick is all about ideology

Re: "Obama emboldened for another Supreme Court pick," April 13

Replacing Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court is all about ideology. President Obama surely intends to replace him with another justice who is infected by the terminal cancer in the federal judiciary that has been eating away the original intent of the Constitution.

It is simply unconscionable that so many judges and elected officials have blatantly betrayed their oaths of office to support, protect and defend the (original intent) of the Constitution of the United States by usurping power from the states, infringing on the rights, liberty and freedom of the people, and concentrating all power in Washington.

Alas, the legal community of law schools and the proliferation of lawyers has grown -- as government has grown -- not only beyond the limitations of what the Constitution prohibits, but beyond control. This was done by the manipulation, circumvention, revision and the reconstruction of our history, our founding documents and what America is all about. This is common sense, and not a matter of ideology, philosophy or interpretation.

Take back America and restore the Constitution
By Daniel B. Jeffs, founder DDC
October 13, 2009

Government meddlers and dependency peddlers don't miss a beat, even in the
worst of times, when it comes to pushing their power agenda of health care
and energy takeovers on the American people, like it or not... while
relaxing our national security. What ever happened to the original law and
meaning of our Constitution?

Indeed, over the past century, social, political and legal power brokers
have circumvented, manipulated and compromised our federal state
constitutions and our freedoms, expanded the power of government executive,
legislative and judicial branches far beyond the intent of limited
government -- with hundreds of thousands of laws, rules, regulations and
court decisions -- establishing the tyrannies of minority selfish interests
over the best interests of the majority of our people with layers upon
layers bureaucratic walls, gates barriers and chains.

Simply put, the hearts have been carved out of our social, economic,
political, legal and moral centers by self-corrupting intrusive, invasive
and repressive government -- which is growing a dependant society of
insidious opportunists, and morally regressive predators and parasites --
bound to the service of the ruling elite.

Certainly, it is time for the collective judgment of the people to wise-up,
free ourselves, and turn it all around with common sense and a real and
unique democratic republic, the way it was intended by our founders. The
American way of limited government, freedom, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness....

James Madison on the General Welfare clause: Health care not included
By Daniel B. Jeffs, founder DDC
October 1, 2009

Before passing more sweeping legislative powers on health care, energy,
finance and education, Congress and the president ought to consider the
original constitutional limitations placed on them by the people of the
United States of America.

When James Madison and others wrote the Constitution, specifically Article
I, Section 8, assigning Congress the "power to lay and collect taxes ... to
pay the debts and provide for the ... general welfare of the United States,"
he and the founders were determined that it not be distorted into assuming
powers not delegated to Congress.

Madison said, "With respect to the words general welfare, I have always
regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To
take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the
Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not
contemplated by its creators."

"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are
the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care
of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State,
county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take
into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner
schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor;
they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in
short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the
most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of
Congress.... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude
contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very
nature of the limited Government established by the people of America."

The Founders also ratified the Constitution's 10th Amendment, affirming,
"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." Thus, the general welfare cannot reasonably be stretched to
allow the national level of government to perform functions and exercise
powers beyond those specifically and explicitly listed in the Constitution.

As James Madison described the limitations on interpretation of the general
welfare clause, "If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done
by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer
a limited one...."the general welfare of the nation as a whole.

Now, look what Congress has done in violation of the Constitution since
FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society. They have usurped nearly all power
from the states, nationalized aid to the poor, education, elements of health
care, roads, police power, and repressed religion. Then look at what they
are doing to undermine the Constitution today. It hurts us all, one way or
another, with the combined abuse of the welfare clause and commerce clause
of our founding document.

The question is, how much longer will we allow our elected representatives,
president and judges to violate their oaths of office to support, protect
and defend the Constitution of the United States as the founders intended?
Without the power of our strictly interpreted Constitution to protect us, we
the people are powerless, as we are experiencing more and more as time and
political tyrants continue to erode our liberty.

Contrary to popular belief, the political elite don't know what is best for
us. Only we as individual Americans know what is best for ourselves, and
only the collective wisdom and judgment of the people should decide what is
best for all of us.

Welcome to the Supreme Court
By Daniel B. Jeffs, founder DDC
July 13, 2009

Senate Democrats and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg have rolled out the red carpet and the welcome mat for Judge Sonia Sotomayor to join the Court, without objection?

A disturbing message from President Obama
By Daniel B. Jeffs, founder DDC
July 14, 2009

I recently subscribed to receiving information from directly from President Barack Obama via email. I received the following email this morning, July 14, 2009 7:16 AM: (excerpts)

From: THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington

"Good Morning,

Yesterday, Judge Sonia Sotomayor made her opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee and moved another step closer to taking a seat on the United States Supreme Court.

John A. Stormer - None Dare Call it Treason
Betrayed by the Bench
None Dare Call it Education
http://www.libertybellpress.com/index.htm

Living Constitution, Dying Faith:
Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence
Author: Bradley C. S. Watson
Publisher: ISI Books
January 2009

Synopsis

In Living Constitution, Dying Faith, political scientist and legal historian Bradley Watson examines how the contemporary embrace of the "living" Constitution has arisen from the radical transformation of American political thought. This transformation, brought about in the late nineteenth century by the philosophies of social Darwinism and pragmatism, explains how and why contemporary jurisprudence is so alien to the constitutionalism of the American Founders. To understand why today's courts rule the way they do, one must start with the ideas exposed by and explained in Watson's timely tome.

Today's view ---rooted in progressivism -- is not simply that we have an interpretable Constitution, but that we have a Constitution which must be interpreted in light of "historically situated," continually evolving notions of the individual, the state, and society. This modern historical approach has been embraced by the judicial appointees of both Democratic and Republican presidents, by both liberals and conservatives, for a century or more. Living Constitution, Dying Faith shows how such an approach has directly undermined Americans' faith in a limited Constitution -- as well as their faith in the eternal verities.

Biography

Bradley C. S. Watson holds the Philip M. McKenna Chair in American and Western Political Thought at Saint Vincent College, where he is also Fellow in Politics and Culture at the Center for Political and Economic Thought. He is, in addition, a Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy and the author or editor of several books, including Civil Rights and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy, Courts and the Culture Wars, Civic Education and Culture (ISI Books, and The West at War. A former civil litigation attorney, Watson writes and speaks frequently on Progressive jurisprudence, liberalism and communitarianism, Western political thought and the American regime, same-sex marriage, and immigration law and policy.

Obama's Idea of Justice
By Patrick J. Buchanan
May 29, 2009
http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-obamas-idea-of-justice-1553

When you think about it, Sonia Sotomayor is the perfect pick for the Supreme Court -- in Barack Obama's America.

Like Obama, himself a beneficiary of affirmative action, she thinks "Latina women," because of their life experience, make better judicial decisions than white men, that discrimination against white men to advance people of color is what America is all about, that appellate courts are "where policy is made" in the United States.

San Diego Union-Tribune
May 28, 2009

Naming Judge Sotomayor to U.S. Supreme Court

Taken together, the California Supreme Court's weak Proposition 8 decision regarding same-sex marriage, and President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the United States Supreme Court, are glaring examples of a class of people demanding special rights over equal rights and liberals using activist judges to legislate policies, special rights and making laws they cannot get through constitutional legislation. It's simply insidious and a systemic undermining of the rights and protections of our Constitution, limited government and our freedom.

DANIEL B. JEFFS
Apple Valley

Re: President Obama nominates judge with Hispanic success story of humble beginnings
USA TODAY
May 26, 2009

Judge Sotomayor's success story from humble beginnings does not excuse her sexist and racist statement. That, along with and her support of reverse discrimination were bad enough, but when she said the court of appeals is where policy is made, is was unconstitutional judicial activism per se. She should not be sitting on any court.

Justice Clarence Thomas, on the other hand, is from humble beginnings and a symbol of African American's success. However, he is a conservative and a strict constitutionalist rule of law judge, unacceptable to the activist judiciary and vehemently opposed by liberal ideology. Judges like him should be sitting on every court.

Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty
Author: Randy E. Barnett
Publisher: Princeton University Press
July 2005

Synopsis

The U.S. Constitution found in school textbooks and under glass in Washington is not the one enforced today by the Supreme Court. In Restoring the Lost Constitution, Randy Barnett argues that since the nation's founding, but especially since the 1930s, the courts have been cutting holes in the original Constitution and its amendments to eliminate the parts that protect liberty from the power of government. From the Commerce Clause, to the Necessary and Proper Clause, to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, to the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court has rendered each of these provisions toothless. In the process, the written Constitution has been lost.

Barnett establishes the original meaning of these lost clauses and offers a practical way to restore them to their central role in constraining government: adopting a "presumption of liberty" to give the benefit of the doubt to citizens when laws restrict their rightful exercises of liberty. He also provides a new, realistic and philosophically rigorous theory of constitutional legitimacy that justifies both interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning and, where that meaning is vague or open-ended, construing it so as to better protect the rights retained by the people.

As clearly argued as it is insightful and provocative, Restoring the Lost Constitution forcefully disputes the conventional wisdom, posing a powerful challenge to which others must now respond.

Biography Randy E. Barnett is Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law and Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute. He is the author of "The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law".