October 1 --------------- Mr. Constitution/Douglas V. Gibbs --------------- 2026

Kennedy Center Derangement Syndrome

By Douglas V. Gibbs

When President Donald J. Trump decided to make the White House better with a ballroom, his opponents screamed bloody-murder, even though for the first time in history a renovation to the White House was not going to cost the taxpayers one red cent. It didn’t matter than every president has had work done in one way or another to the White House to fit their presidency. It didn’t matter that President Trump, for the first time in history, was going to give the White House a much needed renovation without spending a single tax dollar – instead using his own private money and donors’ dollars to fund the project. The truth didn’t matter. It appalled them because it was an idea that Trump had come up with.

Scott Baio once said, “Trump could cure cancer, and they’d accuse him of putting oncologists out of work.”

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California’s Fortress of Fraud

By Douglas V. Gibbs

California Democrats have constructed a legislative fortress around their election practices, attempting to criminalize any scrutiny of their processes while claiming to protect voting rights. The reality is far more sinister – they’re systematically shielding potential fraud from both local and federal investigators.

Consider the evidence: Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco seized ballots in 2025 regarding what appeared to be a rigged redistricting election. California’s response? They sued him, then made it a felony to “interfere with” or “illegally seize” ballots. This wasn’t about protecting voters – it was about protecting potential fraudsters.

Now, as President Trump’s federal government begins investigating California’s election practices, the state’s Democratic legislature has proposed new bills to stop Trump.

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Cuba Matters, Capitalism Matters, Trump Seeks to Annihilate Communism

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The Cuban electrical grid collapsed again.  Such is the folly of communism. Socialism and its cousins (collectivism, communism, utopianism, communitarianism) fail every time in history because, as Thomas Sowell has explained, “it ignores the fundamental economic problem of knowledge distribution.” No central authority can possibly possess the dispersed knowledge required to run an economy effectively. When prices are eliminated as signals of scarcity and value, as happens under communism, resources become allocated disastrously. Rather than the equality it promises, socialism always gives to the new elite class of party officials while the masses suffer shortages, poverty, a breakdown of institutions and infrastructure, and loss of freedom.

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Census, Apportionment, and the United States Constitution

By Douglas V. Gibbs

In Article I of the U.S. Constitution, and again in the Fourteenth Amendment, when the document discusses apportionment, it states that “Indians not taxed” are exempt. In other words, Indians who are still subject to the jurisdiction of their tribes are not to be counted for the purpose of apportionment for the House of Representatives. They are subject to a foreign power, and are not subject to the full jurisdiction of the United States, even though technically they reside within the borders of the United States of America.



The lesson is that anyone who may be inside the national boundaries of the United States, but they are still subject to a foreign power, are not to be counted in the census towards how many representatives in Congress a state may receive. 

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 "The Utopian schemes of leveling (redistribution of wealth), and a community of goods (what we now call "Socialism"), are as visionary and impracticable as those which vest all property in the Crown. [These ideas] are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government, unconstitutional." -- Samuel Adams

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Education and the Constitution

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Radio Veteran, Billy Montana, a seasoned radio voice originally from terrestrial radio, invited me to be a guest on his radio program, Talk America USA, and when he asked about my endeavors, I mentioned that at the time I taught a Constitution Class in Temecula, California on Thursday Nights.  "One of the attendees is a lawyer, and he has stated that I teach more about the Constitution than does law school. In fact, when Constitution Studies begin in law school, the Constitution is never opened. Constitutional Law is based not on the Constitution, but on the opinions of judges regarding the Constitution, a.k.a. case law."

Billy was aghast. How could this be? He learned all about the Constitution in school as a youngster, yet now young law students aren't even taught a single word from the text of the Constitution?

But it goes even further than that. My nephew in middle school was shocked when the chapter on the Constitution in his history book was skipped by his teacher, and when he asked why, she told him because, "The class is limited in time, so they must skip the unimportant parts of the book."

Our freedom is dependent upon us being educated about the rule of law. In fact, James Madison said regarding this, "A well instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."

George Washington said in regards of instructing future generations, "A primary object. . . should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing. . . than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"

This Union of States became great because we were informed, but now the voters are uninformed, and could care less about the issues, and put all of their cares in the gifts they receive from the federal treasury.  Dependency upon the government has replaced being educated about our political system and Constitution.

We have become a country of ideologies, and we have let go of the founding principles of this nation.  Though I call myself a conservative, because the tenets of conservatism closely resembles my constitutional beliefs, in reality I consider myself a Classical Centrist.

When the United States won its independence, the founders realized that government, a centralized governmental system, was necessary in order to protect, preserve and promote the union. However, central governments are also the birthplace of tyranny. So, though the Founding Fathers recognized the need for a central government, they also realized, for the sake of protecting State Sovereignty, that it must be limited in its scope and powers.

The political spectrum holds that to the far left is bigger government, and smaller government resides on the right. Totalitarianism, or 100% government, hugs the left side, and anarchy, or 0% government, blankets the far right. The founders wanted to take a big government idea, but restrain it. The Articles of Confederation, the constitution before the constitution, was too weak. The Articles were a lamb, but we needed a lion. The problem with lions, however, is that lions eat you. So, we needed a lion, but we needed to restrain it so that it did not devour the people, and our freedom. Those restraints, those chains that hold back the lion, that cage that keeps the lion in check, is the Constitution.

But we have become complacent, and uninformed, so our lion, the federal government, is running amok. The only thing we have to bring it back under control is what held it in the first place, the Constitution. The solution is the Constitution.

Otherwise, we will become yet another failed footnote in history that swayed away from its original principles, only to allow itself to collapse under the tyranny from within.

How do we return to the Constitution?

The battle must begin locally. Grab on to the local school board, be involved in your city council, run for positions in the local government, know your central committee, meet with the county supervisors, and communicate with your State legislators. We are in this fight together, but we need to fight to make it work.

The Constitution is nothing more than ink and paper if we don't fight for it.