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'F*** You, James Madison': Stewart Rants At Founders Amid Shutdown
October 17th, 2025 1:20 PM
At the end of every episode of Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast, host Jon Stewart answers listener-submitted questions about various news topics. This Thursday, Stewart responded to a question about who is to blame for the government shutdown by answering “the Founders” and, more profanely, “fuck James Madison.”
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Jonah Goldberg: Impeach Biden and Trump For Abuse of Pardon Powers
January 21st, 2025 11:42 AM
On CNN This Morning, The Dispatch co-founder and CNN analyst Jonah Goldberg suggests that Biden and Trump should be impeached for their abusive, "grotesque' misuse of the pardon power. Biden in respect of his final day pardons of family members, Trump for his sweeping pardons and commutations of January 6 defendants. .
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MSNBC 'Historian': Biden Was Brave Like Lincoln During Ukraine Trip
February 20th, 2023 11:11 PM
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The View: Okay for Lizzo to Desecrate 'Slave Master' Madison's Flute
September 30th, 2022 2:04 PM
In a publicity stunt, some argue was designed to generate outrage this week, the Library of Congress allowed degenerate singer Lizzo to parade around half naked on stage while twerking and playing former President James Madison’s crystal flute. On Friday, the cackling coven of ABC’s The View looked on with glee as they mocked some conservatives for getting upset and argued that the…
Lizzo Lauded for Historically Inappropriate Moves
September 28th, 2022 12:26 PM
In a crazy clash of classiness and trashiness, popular singer Lizzo played James Madison’s 200- year-old crystal flute at her concert in DC while scantily clad and twerking.
Beginning of US Slavery
August 28th, 2019 7:00 PM
The New York Times has begun a major initiative, the “1619 Project,” to observe the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe American history so that slavery and the contributions of black Americans explain who we are as a nation. Nikole Hannah-Jones, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine wrote the lead article, “America Wasn't a Democracy, Until Black…
The Founders and National Debt
July 25th, 2019 8:19 PM
The Founders of the United States of America warned against massive federal debt, but, to our detriment, their political descendants are not paying attention. The Founders speak to us from their graves to condemn and warn of the consequences now that President Trump and Congress have come to an agreement about lifting the meaningless “debt ceiling” and increasing already massive federal spending…
Our Free Speech Crisis
July 11th, 2019 12:34 AM
The First Amendment to our Constitution was proposed by the 1788 Virginia ratification convention during its narrow 89 to 79 vote to ratify the Constitution. Virginia's resolution held that the free exercise of religion, right to assembly and free speech could not be canceled, abridged or restrained. These Madisonian principles were eventually ratified by the states on March 1, 1792.
Slavery Is Neither Strange Nor Peculiar
May 29th, 2019 6:45 PM
The favorite leftist tool for the attack on our nation's founding is that slavery was sanctioned. They argue that the founders disregarded the promises of our Declaration of Independence “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Plunder: An American Way of Life
February 20th, 2019 10:47 PM
Frederic Bastiat, a French economist and member of the French National Assembly, lived from 1801 to 1850. He had great admiration for our country, except for our two faults -- slavery and tariffs. He said: “Look at the United States. There is no country in the world where the law is kept more within its proper domain: the protection of every person's liberty and property.” If Bastiat were alive…
The Electoral College Debate
October 17th, 2018 2:50 PM
Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, seeking to represent New York's 14th Congressional District, has called for the abolition of the Electoral College. Her argument came on the heels of the Senate's confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. She was lamenting the fact that Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, nominated by George W. Bush, and Justices Neil Gorsuch…
It's Our Constitution -- Not Kavanaugh
September 12th, 2018 11:45 PM
One of the best statements of how the Framers saw the role of the federal government is found in Federalist Paper 45, written by James Madison, who is known as the "Father of the Constitution": "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be…
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Williams Touts Ex-Obama Official Bash as Concerned ‘Institutionalist’
March 30th, 2017 6:25 PM
Once again, MSNBC prominently featured former Obama administration official Jeremy Bash as a nonpartisan intelligence analyst with an appearance on Wednesday’s The 11th Hour. Host Brian Williams swooned over Bash as an “institutionalist” while Bash warned that the Trump-Russia story “is a huge crisis” threatening “our Madisonian system of checks and balances.”
Yes, the Electoral College Still Works
November 16th, 2016 5:29 PM
What would the Founders think of presumptive President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral vote victory, earned in the face of a popular vote loss? Hint: It’s not what many media commentators would have you believe. We can find a small clue to the Founders’ feelings in something Benjamin Franklin said as he left the Constitutional Convention. As delegates departed from the old Pennsylvania State House…
