Lester Jackson

Lester Jackson


  • September 28, 2018

    The Left vs. Kavanaugh: Desperate Smears by Democracy's Losers

    In my book, Equal Justice for Victims, I wrote: Like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I have a dream.  My dream is that one day the United States will elect a president who dares to explain to the American people that, on controversial que...

  • August 2, 2018

    Government Permission to Petition

    The First Amendment declares that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging ... the right of the people ... to petition the government for a redress of grievances."  This also applies to the states. Despite that clear command b...

  • April 6, 2018

    Voting for Republican Liars: Not Futile!

    While the political correctness assault on free speech, especially by the media and on college campuses, has received widespread attention, the Democratic Party objective to obliterate First Amendment protections, from assault by the full power of th...

  • March 20, 2018

    Mr. President: Please Be Careful What You Wish For

    In the wake of the 100% preventable Valentine's Day maniac murders of 17 children, calls for mental health assessments have become popular.  President Trump tweeted a ringing endorsement of mental health checks: the murderer ...

  • March 16, 2015

    Speaker Boehner: Democrat Dissenter

    On March 3, after repeatedly huffing and puffing in support the Republican position on one of the major issues of the 2014 election, John Boehner predictably went back on his word, betraying conservatives on a signature campaign promise: to rein in P...

  • February 15, 2015

    The Faithless Elected: Boehner and the House Dons

    More than any other member of Congress, John Boehner has been responsible for violating critical Republican campaign promises essential to his becoming Speaker. To use a Wall Street Journal characterization of the first President Bush (July 2, 1990, ...

  • February 14, 2015

    Speaker Boehner and the Frustrated Conservatives

    Reactions to John Boehner’s re-election as Speaker have included scant attention to its implications for representative democracy. As Lincoln noted, “unanimity is impossible; … so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy ...

  • January 2, 2015

    The Last Resort: Replace John Boehner

    Crominbus was the last straw. Conservatives are now absolutely livid at the RINO Establishment. Rarely, if ever, has such an unmistakable voter mandate been so brazenly nullified before the newly elected could even take office. Calls escalate to ...

  • December 12, 2013

    The Nuclear Option: Misplaced Conservative Outrage

    Harry Reid's recent embrace of the Senate "nuclear option" left many conservatives in high dudgeon over "tyranny of the majority."  But the concept of majority tyranny is largely a fantasy -- contradicted, for example, by Angelo Codevilla's...

  • October 5, 2013

    Justice Thomas's Remarkable Flirtation with Multiculturalism

    Vintage Thomas In high-profile decisions last June, Justice Clarence Thomas did not disappoint his admirers.  He was the only justice who would have struck down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, delivered a blistering, detailed solo opinion ...

  • August 15, 2013

    Fear Not! Obama's Prosecutors Are on the Job

    Recently, a little-reported yet extraordinary decision was rendered by a U.S. appeals court.  The meager media mention given the case was laced with levity due to its subject matter.  But it was anything but funny, for it shed immense light...

  • July 21, 2013

    The Sleazy Semantics of Death Penalty Opponents

    "Humanize" the Inhumane!           Anyone familiar with television crime dramas is aware that "humanizing" the inhumane long has been a tactic of fanatics seeking to keep alive murderers convicted of the wors...

  • December 11, 2012

    Justice Sotomayor and Murderer Advocacy

    As detailed elsewhere, pro-murderer media suppression of the truth has played a major role in enabling a wholesale evisceration of capital punishment. Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently provided a graphic example, one that would be excruciatingly painf...

  • October 22, 2012

    Supreme Court Warning to Conservatives: Do Not Confuse Relief with Joy

    The most important reason for conservatives to support Mitt Romney is that he is not Barack Obama, period.  Never before has there been an American president ashamed of his own country. Never before has there been a president with complete conte...

  • July 29, 2012

    Pro-Murderer Mindset of The New York Times

    A recent 7,900-word New York Times article singularly illustrates the huge gulf between victims of barbaric crime and the zealous rationalizers of their victimizers.  Strongly suggesting that a prisoner's being "sorry" for the premeditated murde...

  • July 7, 2012

    What Hath Roberts Wrought?

    Collateral damage has resulted from Chief Justice Roberts' validation of ObamaCare's assault on individual freedom, the economy, and the country.  The comity and unity of the law's opponents have been shattered, as they have been bitterly divide...

  • June 20, 2012

    The New York Times' Broccoli Obsession

    Last week, the New York Times ran a sarcastic 2,300-word front-page article denouncing the use of broccoli to illustrate why the ObamaCare individual mandate is unconstitutional.  As the reasoning goes, if the government can force individuals to...

  • May 6, 2012

    High Court Humpty Dumptys

    At least as far back as Woodrow Wilson, progressives and liberals have seen our anti-tyranny Constitution as an obstacle to imposing their self-presumed superior morality and wisdom on everyone else.  So it was unremarkable when, in February, Th...

  • March 14, 2012

    For Whom Their Hearts Bleed: The Odd Sympathies of Liberal Justices

    An unbridgeable values chasm exists between victims of the worst crimes and the zealous devotees of their depraved victimizers. Last month, 18-year-old Alyssa Bustamante, protected from capital punishment by five U.S. Supreme Court justices undemocra...

  • January 4, 2012

    Crime Without Punishment

    In common parlance, "getting away with murder" is a metaphor for doing something wrong without suffering deserved adverse consequences.  Getting away with actual murder has meant that the killer did not get caught, or else he avoided convict...

  • August 14, 2011

    The Threat Of Liberal Judicial Activism Reaches New Heights

    In making the case for judicial review, Chief Justice John Marshall pointed out that judges take a sworn oath to uphold the laws of the United States.  Until last month, it would have been unnecessary to stress that he was obviously referring to...

  • March 20, 2011

    Linda Greenhouse's Hatchet Job On Justice Scalia

    In a vitriolic column employing the very style for which she attacks Justice Anonin Scalia, Linda Greenhouse repeats the old banal "bad-boy" narrative of a long hostile media. This unanswered charge is misleading in the extreme. What Greenh...