The essay is very enlightening but offers renders no commentary on how the citizen of this republic be able to convince our elected Congressmen & women the Constitution matters not their political agendas. I have written a number of emails to my Congressional Rep and he political speak in the one response that was actually snail mailed to me. I'm not giving up despite that rep is a Dim.

I think that doing things because you “feel sorry for people” is not a good thing because it encourages the recipients to craft their lives so others continue to feel sorry for them. Helping others to overcome their plights should entail something positive for the giver that the recipient gives back

In the case of public schools that require young people to subject themselves to 12 years if being “taught” isn’t effective because they aren’t motivated to “learn”.

I would say public school for me was pretty much a waste of time. I learned far more outside of enforced schools than I did in those 12 years of government indoctrination

In the cause of wealth transfer to other peoples children, it also results in too many children because the true cost of raising them is artificially hidden to the parents of those children. Same is true of welfare given to parents who can’t afford to bring children into the world, and leads to unsustainable population growth

" I don’t have kids but I have to pay property taxes which are used primarily to educate other people’s kids"
I can see both sides of taxes to provide education. Most people agree with taxes for police and jails, and if education can provide some of that same benefit it makes sense to fund it the same way. OTOH that's a slippery slope that can lead to gov't taking responsibility for all needs of families with children which can further slide into gov't being involved even in middle-class expenses, e.g. public school and PPACA. As you say, it leads to way too many laws, which leads to disrespect for the law. So I'm conflicted in that I want gov't to help the poor in a limited way but fear it always grows out of hand.

It might be a little late for this. Too many existing laws take from one person or group and give the benefits to another person or group

Way too many laws. Taxation is the biggest one. I don’t have kids but I have to pay property taxes which are used primarily to educate other people’s kids

"the constitution needs to forbid any law that takes from one and gives to another."
I said something like that to ewv. He says the Constitution does prevent takings, but we don't follow it. He says no piece of paper on earth can reach out and make people follow it if they don't agree with its philosophy. He may be right, but I agree we should try to have a system of checks and balances that tries to make people do the right thing.

In the short to intermediate term I am thinking a Supreme Court appointee who supports our constitution is a good thing and seeing how the democrats hate Kavanaugh makes me like him. In the longer term it won’t make a lot of difference if the mob rule votes socialist. Trump only can get 2 ‘Maybe 3 conservative justices out of. 9 appointed.

In many cases he defends the original constitution which is classic liberal. The term "Liberal" was stolen by the Democrats and only in the US does it mean socialists.
If Napolitano is classic "Liberal", and I think that is true, then he is a supporter of the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution in its original meaning which allows only very limited government.
As for Fox, they are the real supporters of unlimited GOP power, not limited government. So you're right, Napolitano doesn't really belong on Fox but at least sometimes Fox pretends to care about limited government.
Napolitano cites the decisions that Kav has made that support big gov power oevr individual rights, so it's not just what Napolitano says, it's Kavanaugh's actions that matter.

Three reasons . Cheap labor is no.2

I agree that conviction fixes nothing. To fix the system the constitution needs to forbid any law that takes from one and gives to another. This would require carefully changing the constitution, but if this could be done there would be no need for lobbyists, or politicians to get goodies for constituents in exchange for campaign donations

No wonder the liberals want open borders

I don't get President Bill Clinton's motivations with his affairs. Other politicians do the same thing. I don't get why they do it, as you say, knowing they'll probably talk.

It's awful that we rarely talk about policy differences and instead just talk about jailing political enemies. I don't get I this because it's nothing to me if a particular politician is jailed for some technicality. I want the system to enforce the laws, but I get nothing out of any individual being convicted. I want people left alone to pursue happiness.

Probably not the legal popular vote . Mr. Agresti’s analysis of the same polling data settled on much higher numbers. He estimated that as many as 7.9 million noncitizens were illegally registered that year and 594,000 to 5.7 million voted.

We were damn close to Hillary winning. Her arrogance lost the election electorally, but she did get the popular vote majority.

As to whether she can be jailed, I really don’t know if she broke laws that can be proven and that aren’t past the statute of limitations. At this point I am not sure it’s worth it to pursue. She will never hold high office again

I remember the whole Monica Lewinsky thing. The only thing I thought about it was that bill clinton actually thought she would keep a secret. Any CEO would know some lowly intern is going to brag to her friends almost immediately- which is what she did

This is nonsense. Not long ago I remember extreme Democrats being hyper-critical of law enforcement (in relation to Cointelpro and Iran Contra). I'm confident the pendulum will swing back within 35 years, which I hope is my lifetime. I consider all of this utter nonsense. We could just as well be talking about Kenneth Star in '98 when I was working as an engineer and PT at a grocery store on the weekends to pay back loans. All of this is utter nonsense: James Carville commenting on investigating Clinton and what you're saying.

Me an old dino remembers when quiet deplorables were called "the silent majority."
McCain and Romney made too many of them just want to sit at home on election days.
The Tangerine Tornado knew how to push the right hot buttons.
I think he still does.
And I really hope I'm right for the sake of this country.

I do hope you are right and do what I can to make it happen.. It will be up to the quiet deplorables coming out in full force

Me dino is betting on two terms for Trump unless he's assassinated.,
Oh, it will get way uglier but I think the Tangerine Tornado will prevail.

I think we got a few years worth of slowing down the march to socialism with Trump. That might be over in 3 months , or go on for another two years. But the liberals will have accumulated forces to overthrow trump in 2020. Its a shame but this country is doomed.

For the first time me dino felt moved to look up and immediately (talk about instant gratification) find precisely what I thought FORWARD slogan meant in the Obamanation's run for reelection.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/...
Since the media felt compelled to dig up dirt on Joe The Plumber as a distraction after Obooboo told him, "I want to spread the wealth around," evidently it was thought a slogan like "MARCHING ON TO SOCIALISM" just wouldn't work out well.
Bolshevik Bernie and Wannabe Commie Ocasio-Cortez would have no problem with that, though.

Absolutely true. The thought that the other half knew she was a crook but they wanted to enjoy some of the spoils kept crossing my Mind. STRONGER TOGETHER behind a leader who gets goodies and doesn’t get caught

What's unfortunate is that other half.

The investigations are going nowhere. For me, I concluded based on the admittedly small amount of factual data, that she was guilty and definitely should NOT be in our government. So did half the people of the country fortunately.

Blatant treasonous criminality many predict will go unpunished.

we damn near had a us government for sale by Hillary to foreign powers through "donations" to the clinton foundation

All in a sudden me dino thinks of that cliche about our Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.