Jayda Fransen is a leader of the Britain First Party. You retweeted videos she had posted, which depicted Muslim violence and intolerance toward Christians and Europeans.

British Prime Minister Theresa May condemned you for sharing those posts on your Twitter account.  And as a demonstration that your admirers will not be tolerated in the U.K., her government has been systematically imprisoning and harassing Ms. Fransen and her associate, Paul Golding.

You have since distanced yourself from Jayda Fransen, perhaps as a diplomatic gesture to Theresa May, but what commitment for British freedoms or Western values has she shown in the last 18 months? Through her duplicity, she is doing all she can to sabotage BREXIT, the act of separation from the EU, which was ratified by the British people in a national referendum – and she would sabotage you, if only she could.

Last year, U.S. Ambassador Sam Brownback lobbied on behalf of British journalist Tommy Robinson, who was jailed for accurately reporting on Muslim pedophile gangs in the U.K. Though he is threatened with heavy fines and re-imprisonment, he has since been released, thanks to your intervention. All who support freedom of speech and the press are thankful.

Yet it remains that you did not retweet Tommy Robinson: you retweeted Jayda Fransen. And the U.K. government vengefully oppresses her in retaliation. It is a clear signal that you, your worldview, and your support for Western values will not be tolerated in a once-free nation. But what shall your message be? Shall you help Ms. Fransen, who has admired you, or shall you signal silence?

Mr. Cloutier is author of Mussolini’s War in Spain 1936-1939: Italian Intervention in the Spanish Civil War.

According to a Newsweek article featured on ATT.NET:

The Fox News show Justice With Jeanine Pirro was pulled from programming Saturday evening, one week after Pirro’s controversial comments about Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar.

“Omar wears a hijab, which according to the Quran 33:59, tells women to cover so they won’t get molested,” Pirro said. “Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?”

– A valid question in the opinion of this blogger, in light of the experience of nations like the United Kingdom, or Germany, where criticism of Islam is essentially illegal and is punished with heavy fines or imprisonment. Perhaps it is time to drop FOX News.

https://start.att.net/news/read/article/newsweek-fox_news_pulls_jeanine_pirro_after_antimuslim_rema-rnewsweek/category/entertainment

Mr. Cloutier is the author of Mussolini’s War in Spain 1936-1939: Italian Intervention in the Spanish Civil War.

Concern has been expressed over an attempt by several states to, in essence, alter our form of government, by altering the way in which their Electoral College votes are awarded in Presidential elections.

Each state has a certain number of Electoral votes, based on the number of U.S. Senators and Congressmen who represent it. No state can ever have less than 3 Electoral votes. The system was designed as a compromise to protect smaller states from being politically overwhelmed by larger states, and to prevent any handful of very populous states from dictating to the rest of the Union.

However, according to well-known and respected journalist Bill Still, 12 states have formed a so-called National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), by which these states would award their Electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, rather than to the candidate who captures the vote within their respective boundaries. And perhaps predictably, 2 of the 12 states are the most populous states in the Union – just the sort of combination the Electoral College was designed to counter.

However, their NPVIC is dead on arrival, since the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from entering into compacts, without Congressional approval.

UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE I, Section 3, Paragraph 3:

“No State shall, without the Consent of Congress…enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State…”

Even if both Houses of Congress could be so thoroughly corrupt as to permit a group of rogue states to attempt such a thing, it would be unlikely to survive a legal challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court. Moreover, such a course of action would constitute a rebellion against the authority of the United States (the authority of the United States is the Constitution) and could result in an unwelcome military response, with Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Hawaii, Washington, Massachusetts, Vermont, California, Rhode Island, New York, Colorado and Connecticut ending up as Reconstruction States – perhaps to the great relief of their citizens.

 

Patrick Cloutier is the author of “Mussolini’s War in Spain. Italian Intervention in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939“.