Politics

This summer, the Supreme Court is expected to reaffirm birthright citizenship (jus soli) in the United States. The case argued renews debate over what it means to be an American citizen. This decision will also be interesting in the context of current fetal and embryonic personhood debates, although it may not be obvious as to why. At first glance, fetal personhood appears unrelated to birthright citizenship. However, if you begin to dig into some of the arguments of fetal personhood proponents, they appear to collapse legal personhood and citizenship into the same category. They assume that making the unborn legal people will automatically make them Americans. ...

Over the holiday break, we were able to edit and publish a short book of our most popular writing this year. Fetal Personhood and Citizenship: Why There Are No Unborn Americans This includes slightly edited versions of our posts analyzing Dobbs, H.R. 722, as well as the mock trial There Are No Unborn Americans. The mock trial was read by over 100k people with over 300 upvotes. We also published our piece “Reading The Constitution As A Modern Citizen” along with its supporting material of Federalist Papers and Constitution. This has been very well received. ...

What does Dobbs say? The general consensus is that Dobbs gave States the right to regulate abortion again. However, this isn’t technically true. The final result of Dobbs was that there is no right to abortion protected by a right to privacy. If there is no right to privacy protecting the right to abortion, then States inferred they had regained regulatory authority. One of the first questions I get regarding fetal personhood and citizenship is how it proves Dobbs wrong or invalidates it. It doesn’t. But that’s a feature, not a bug. ...

The Fundamentals The Founders did not think about your rights as something the Government gives you. How they thought about rights is expressed across debates, letters, and even our Declaration of Independence (not a legally binding document, but illuminating none-the-less). Most people today think the Government gives us our rights. It’s probably taught this way in many schools across the US. “The 1st Amendment gives you the right to free speech…” ...

🏛️ The Structural Rights Party No Morals. Just Law. We are not here to tell you what’s right. We are here to tell you what’s allowed. 🔹 What We Believe 1. The Constitution is a Logic Engine It is not a moral document. It is not a list of virtues. It is a structural map of power: who gets to do what, and who doesn’t. We follow it ruthlessly and literally. ...

Current Texas law forces doctors to choose the rights of an undocumented non-citizen fetus over the right to life and self-defense of citizen mothers. Roe v Wade fell 5 years ago and it’s not coming back. The abortion as healthcare argument has failed and is actively getting women hurt and killed today. Instead, we should look for other rights that abortion falls under that have actual court precedents. The healthcare argument will not gain any traction over the next 4 years. ...

Donald Trump won the 2024 election. In fact, he won both the popular and electoral votes. Republicans did well up and down ballot. Democrats have been missing a trick since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Stereotyping Over the summer, I got to go to a young niece’s birthday party in San Antonio, Texas. I’m a white male, no college education. My wife is Hispanic along with her side of the family, and brother-in-law is several races. My nieces, for instance, are Hawaiian, Hispanic, Chinese if that gives you an idea of their parents. My wife and I were the only Harris voters at the party. I was the only “white non-college educated” person at the party and I (a registered Republican) was voting for Harris along with my wife (registered Dem). Every single person the Democrat party would deem a minority or person of color was voting for Trump. We were outnumbered 4:1 at least. ...

The Minimum Wage and Youth Unemployment The minimum wage is a hot topic across our nation in the US. Many left-leaning Americans want to push the minimum wage ever higher, to combat cost of living increases and inflation. Right-leaning Americans often decry the minimum wage, but their reasoning often just boils down to ‘communism’. However, it’s absolutely true that the minimum wage has an impact on our unemployment rates in the US, particularly when it comes to teenagers. ...

Thomas Sowell comments on political leaders.

How It Started Expectations: Non-Existent. During debate season, I’m frequently reminded of the Nixon/Kennedy debate which aired on both TV and radio for the first time. People who watched on TV took away a cool-looking Kennedy, while the radio listeners took away a confident-sounding (but not looking) Nixon. Certainly there were demographic arguments that those likely to own a TV were likely to vote for Kennedy, and vice-versa. This might ring true to an extent as well. ...