Archive for Dr. Ellis Washington
Ellis Washington, former editor at The Michigan Law Review and law clerk at The Rutherford Institute, is a graduate of John Marshall Law School and a lecturer and freelance writer on constitutional law, legal history, political philosophy and critical race theory. He has written over a dozen law review articles and several books, including "The Inseparability of Law and Morality: The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law" (2002). See his law review article "Reply to Judge Richard Posner." Washington's latest book is "The Nuremberg Trials: Last Tragedy of the Holocaust."
Is liberalism political madness? By Dr. Ellis Washington
To your average liberal intellectual or humanist academic, the Founding Fathers and the Constitution’s framers were the lowest, vilest, murderous hypocrites on the face of the earth and only deserve our utter condemnation.
Virtually every word uttered, printed or recorded by liberals is a dishonorable, unbroken litany of treason against America’s laws, economics, culture, society and her most sacred values.
RINO careerists: Nothing more than traitors By Dr. Ellis Washington
What is that sound you hear? No, not a strong denunciation by John McCain in support of Palin …it’s crickets chirping. McCain by his silence is tacitly supporting the hateful slander against Palin. In my opinion, McCain is a bitter, jealous political hack whose days in the spotlight have long past.
Obama and the virtue of selfishness By Dr. Ellis Washington
Despite Obama’s Occidental, Columbia and Harvard pedigree, on economics he is totally devoted to and blinded by the Marxist propaganda he learned at those schools. Why? Because he studied at quintessential liberal academies where the lectures by his professors were less invitations to submit worthy opinions to the arena of ideas and more of an indoctrination factory.
Obama and our coming constitutional crisis By Dr. Ellis Washington
Philip J. Berg, a Democratic operative and former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania, has assumed the tragic role of Prometheus, ascended Mount Olympus, the abode of Zeus, and has launched a one-man campaign to force Obama to verify his U.S. citizenship by suing the senator, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission, to verify that indeed he is worthy to be president of the United States by producing a real birth certificate.
Obama 2001, uncensored By Dr. Ellis Washington
Earlier this week, conservative pundit Michelle Malkin, on her blog, wrote a reveling piece titled, “Obama in 2001: How to bring about ‘redistributive change.’” In her very intriguing article about the recently released radio interview of “The One” in 2001, we are peeling back the onion layers and are finally getting at the core of who Barack Obama the man actually is in his own words. WARNING! … and it’s not going to be good for America.
Universities of socialism By Dr. Ellis Washington
Earlier this week as I was searching for the latest news, one item that caught my attention was titled, “Al Gore delivers environmental message at Harvard.”
While I won’t launch into a diatribe about Al Gore and the merits and demerits of an impending global catastrophe, allow me to look at what I consider radical environmentalism from both a macro (large) and from a philosophical perspective.
25Oct2008 | Dr. Ellis Washington | 1 comment | ContinuedA critique of President George W. Bush By Dr. Ellis Washington
In my opinion, the entire Bush presidency was a colossal sham. Bush’s rhetoric was as Ronald Reagan; however, his reality was as Savage characterized him, a “fiscal socialist” who favors open borders, exploding debt and anti-American, globalist policies that economically, morally, socially, culturally, legally has plunged America into a paroxysm that we may never recover from once the Marxist Obama assumes the presidency.
Same-sex marriage a right? By Dr. Ellis Washington
A few weeks ago, in my American Judicial Process class at Savannah State University, my students and I had a lively discussion on same-sex marriage, domestic partnerships and the constitutionality of states granting gay couples either the right to have “civil unions” or even going further – granting gay couples the legal right to marry.
A Savage prediction for McCain By Dr. Ellis Washington
As we approach the November elections, I – like many conservatives – am in a state of impending angst. I am convinced during these perilous times that without the Bible, WorldNetDaily and the Michael Savage radio show to comfort me, I would be certifiable for the asylum by now.
Where are Scalia’s intellectual children? By Dr. Ellis Washington
Last week, on Oct. 2, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia became the inaugural speaker of the Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture Series at Harvard Law School. His subject, “Methodology of Originalism,” was given before a crowd of over 650 students, faculty and the general public.
Are liberal Democrats the real racists? By Dr. Ellis Washington
Rep. Alcee Hastings, a liberal Democrat representing Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, is a perfect example of the pathetic leadership that has poorly served black America over the past 40 years. His brand of racist liberalism has given this pol a lucrative and influential career where he has perfected the art of exploiting social, racial, gender, economic, religious and political differences for his own Machiavellian ends.
Faust, Greenspan and America’s financial collapse By Dr. Ellis Washington
Last week, David Blake wrote an intriguing article about America’s growing financial crisis that, after I read it, inspired me to hearken back to my literary roots.
Perhaps the most significant literary contribution to 19th century Romanticism was the oeuvre by that magnificent German writer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), particularly his dramatic epic poem in two volumes, “Faust” (1808, 1833).
Arbitrary Ideas: Hollywood, Reagan and imbeciles voting By Dr. Ellis Washington
Today, I will borrow an article style from that legendary economist and commentator of American culture and society, Hoover Institute fellow Dr. Thomas Sowell – particularly his column series he does from time to time on various issues of concern titled, “Random Thoughts.” My foray into this genre will be called, “Arbitrary Ideas.”
Harvard’s propaganda for Obama By Dr. Ellis Washington
Last week I did a review of Laurence Tribe, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard and his book, “The Invisible Constitution.” Tribe’s thesis is that the “real” Constitution is not so much in the black-letter text of the actual document, but in the unwritten, “recovered memories,” hidden, “imagined experiences” and penumbral shadows.
How the Detroit Lions mirror their host city By Dr. Ellis Washington
Detroit will not win for 50 years.This column is for all my football fans out there. However, for my political junkies, of course I will make a few political points in my analysis.
Here I want to discuss the hapless, hopeless Detroit Lions football team and why they are so pathetic in relation to other football teams. Also, I will theorize how the Lions are related to the terrible leadership of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a politically connected rogue elected to high office twice in an 88 percent black city.
Tribe’s tribalisms By Dr. Ellis Washington
Harvard professor of constitutional law Lawrence Tribe has just released his latest book, “The Invisible Constitution” (Oxford Press, 2008). In this interesting but bizarre work, professor Tribe proposes the thesis that lines between the actual black-letter text, what Tribe calls “the invisible constitution,” is the actual Constitution.
What ruined Detroit By Dr. Ellis Washington
Mitch Albom is a prolific novelist, playwright, radio host and a sportswriter for the Detroit Free Press. He is also an internationally renowned author of several New York Times best-sellers, including: “Tuesdays with Morrie” and “Five People you Meet in Heaven.” Despite his coveted accolades as a writer, intellectually speaking Albom is a typical example of the hack journalism that dominates Detroit, particularly in its coverage of the rise and fall of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Why Kwame gets a pass in Detroit By Dr. Ellis Washington
For any of my liberal friends out there who are still in denial about whether or not there is a liberal bias in the media, I have just three words for them: Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Can you imagine all of the drama, the salacious text messages between KK and his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, the ruined lives and careers costing the city tens of millions in lawsuits (as well as hundreds of millions more at stake), the angst, the treachery, the waste, fraud and abuse KK has visited upon the city of Detroit being perpetrated by, say, a black conservative Republican like a Clarence Thomas, J.C. Watts, Michael Steele, Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams?
Obama, Ayers, Dohrn and double jeopardy By Dr. Ellis Washington
Ayers and Dohrn are people who are very close friends to Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama, who over the years sat on various boards with Bill Ayers and to whose home Obama was compelled to make a pilgrimage at the beginning of his political career to secure their blessings and exploit their essential financial and political connections in Chicago.
Critical thinkers vs. Kool-Aid drinkers By Dr. Ellis Washington
While watching small clips of the Democrats’ national convention this week, I was struck by the audience and its reaction to the utter propaganda it was exposed to. Yet, like cult members brainwashed and transfixed by the words of their “leader,” audience members robotically accepted the doublespeak, no matter how utopian and outrageous, with repeated and exultant ovations.
Heresy in Denver By Dr. Ellis Washington
As I watched the Democratic convention this past week, I also was listening to my favorite radio talk-show host, that fabulous iconoclast and conservative intellectual, Dr. Michael Savage. Admittedly, the news coverage in my view was monolith and unremarkable. I considered the entire event a garish spectacle of nothingness. When I could take no more doublespeak, the commercials were over and I returned to listening to Michael Savage.
28Aug2008 | Dr. Ellis Washington | 0 comments | ContinuedHitler’s ideology ‘right-wing’? By Dr. Ellis Washington
Today’s column will end my extended book review of Dr. Benjamin Wiker’s useful opus, “10 Books that Screwed up the World and 5 others that didn’t Help” (Regnery, 2008). My critique will be on the German leader Adolf Hitler’s treatise, “Mein Kampf,” a two-volumne book published in 1925 and 1926 that unfies elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler’s National Socialist political ideology.
Does Colin Powell believe in the Powell Doctrine? By Dr. Ellis Washington
For Gen. Powell to even consider supporting Obama, a politician who ran to the left of Hillary Rodham Clinton on one issue alone – “I didn’t vote for the Iraq war” – is troubling for the good general on a number of levels.
21Aug2008 | Dr. Ellis Washington | 0 comments | ContinuedD-Day in Denver? By Dr. Ellis Washington
During my daily search of interesting news across cyberspace, I came across an item posted on DrudgeReport.com from the Denver Rocky Mountain News, “Mayor says no to Tent State overnight.”
20Aug2008 | Dr. Ellis Washington | 0 comments | ContinuedIt’s all about pleasure? By Dr. Ellis Washington
Today’s column continues my review of Dr. Benjamin Wiker’s attractive opus, “10 Books that Screwed up the World and 5 others that didn’t Help” (Regnery, 2008). My critique will be on the British philosopher John Stuart Mill’s treatise on ethical theory titled, “Utilitarianism” (1863).
19Aug2008 | Dr. Ellis Washington | 0 comments | ContinuedTime for revolution? By Dr. Ellis Washington
As I begin preparation for my teaching duties at Savannah State University, a historical black college founded in 1890 and the oldest HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) in the state of Georgia, I have mixed emotions. Frankly, I fear for the intellectual integrity of my students – people whom I’ve never met.
15Aug2008 | Dr. Ellis Washington | 0 comments | ContinuedCommunism then and now By Dr. Ellis Washington
Today’s column continues my review of Dr. Benjamin Wiker’s fascinating opus, “10 Books that Screwed up the World and 5 others that didn’t Help” (Regnery, 2008). My critique will be on Marxism’s founder, Karl Marx, and the chief propagandist of communism, Friedrich Engels, and their celebrated book, “The Manifesto of the Communist Party” (1848).
11Aug2008 | Dr. Ellis Washington | 0 comments | ContinuedAleksandr Solzhenitsyn, R.I.P. By Dr. Ellis Washington
I, like many lovers of great literature, was deeply saddened by the headline on the New York Times last Monday, “Reverence but no outpouring for Solzhenitsyn.” Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) Russian dramatist, novelist, historian, was a prolific writer and a gargantuan intellect. His magnum opus is his legendary – “The Gulag Archipelago” (3 vols., 1973-78).
9Aug2008 | Dr. Ellis Washington | 0 comments | ContinuedDarwin’s deadly delusions By Dr. Ellis Washington
Today’s column continues my review of Dr. Benjamin Wiker’s venerable opus, “10 Books that Screwed up he World and 5 others that didn’t Help” (Regnery, 2008). My critique will be of the legendary English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-82) and his famous treatise on the origins of mankind, “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex” (1871).
5Aug2008 | Dr. Ellis Washington | 0 comments | ContinuedMachiavelli in the house By Dr. Ellis Washington
Hence it is necessary to a prince, if he wants to maintain himself, to learn to be able not to be good.~ Machiavelli
Prologue: Machiavelli in the hood
Today’s column continues my review of Dr. Benjamin Wiker’s commendable opus, “10 Books that Screwed up the World and 5 Others that didn’t Help” (Regnery, 2008). My critique will [...]
Justice Kennedy channels Alfred Kinsey By Dr. Ellis Washington
There are no such things as sexual deviations. If something happens sexually, it must be part of the natural spectrum; if it is part of the natural spectrum, it cannot be considered either abnormal or unnatural, even if it is relatively uncommon; but as it turns out to be so much more common hence quite [...]
10Jul2008 | Dr. Ellis Washington | 0 comments | ContinuedTeflon brothers: Barack and Kwame By Dr. Ellis Washington
Today, I want to return to the issue of Detroit and write about what I consider to be a vulgar double standard local political leadership and activist demagogues use either to prevent a substantive, comprehensive critique of the town or avert real solutions to seemingly intractable big-city problems.
For instance, I contend in this column that [...]
Rousseau and the savageness of humanity By Dr. Ellis Washington
Savages are not evil precisely because they do not know what it is to be good.~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Prologue
Today’s column continues my review of Dr. Benjamin Wiker’s excellent and timely opus, “10 Books that Screwed up the World and 5 Others that didn’t Help” (Regnery, 2008). Here, I will do a critique on the great French [...]
An American oligarchy of 5 By Dr. Ellis Washington
The court lacks the authority to impose its chosen remedy.~ Justice Antonin Scalia
The tyranny of the judicial branch was realized by Thomas Jefferson shortly after the original sin of Marbury v. Madison (1803) was handed down, where the Supreme Court seized the right to be the final authority on all constitutional questions – not Congress, [...]
Justices gone wild By Dr. Ellis Washington
To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.~ Thomas Jefferson
On June 12, the Supreme Court in the consolidated case of Boumediene v. Bush and “Al-Odah v. U.S., gave the roughly 270 prisoners held at our prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the [...]
Nietzsche and the damnation of ideas By Dr. Ellis Washington
For Heidegger and Nietzsche alike, good and evil were childish notions. What matters is will and choice. Self-assertion was the highest value.
~ Jonah Goldberg, “Liberal Fascism” (2007)
Dr. Benjamin Wiker has written an outstanding and timely book titled: “10 Books that Screwed up the World: And 5 Others that Didn’t Help” (Regnery, 2008). Besides reviewing books [...]
Obama, me and our pastors By Dr. Ellis Washington
This “constitutional scholar” [Obama] evidently sees the First Amendment as a license to “prevent the disruptive strains of fundamentalism from taking root in this country.”~ WND Editor Joseph Farah (quoting Obama on the Religion Clause)
Prologue
I have purposely refrained from writing an entire article about Democrat presidential nominee Barak Obama since he entered the race and [...]
How Thomas Hobbes is helping destroy America By Dr. Ellis Washington
In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell
A great leap into the dark. ~ Hobbes (last words)
Dr. Benjamin Wiker has written a very prescient and timely book titled: “10 Books that Screwed up the World: And 5 Others that Didn’t Help” (Regnery, 2008).
Besides reviewing books by Machiavelli, [...]
3Jun2008 | Dr. Ellis Washington | 0 comments | ContinuedCurrent Articles
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