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                                        The  Constitutionist Free Newsletter Items, Analysis, Opinions and News Gathered from Everywhere   By Steven Maikoski, Author:  “The Real Constitution and its Real Enemies” constitutionist@protonmail.com   January 3, 2026 A Quickie on Venezuela I had to start today’s events with a massive eyeroll when a reporter asked President Trump if he had notified members of Congress about his attack in Venezuela. Obviously, letting Congress know about that operation would have been as bad as sending the attack plans to the Venezuelan government.  Trump knew better than to trust politicians who could not define a woman.   The V-mission's astonishing success was due to the professionalism of the military and its secrecy, including the Pentagon's ban on reporters last year. From the success of this mission, it is ...

  The  Constitutionist Free Newsletter Items, Analysis, Opinions and News Gathered from Everywhere By Steven Maikoski, Author:  “The Real Constitution and its Real Enemies” constitutionist@protonmail.com   12-28-2025 Politicians have always depended on anger and hate to motivate and team their people. Yesterday I spoke with a friend whom I had not spoken with in a couple of years. We were having a good time until I explained that I had gone to the Turning Point convention, AmericaFest, over the last weekend. It was then that I learned that this person had turned into a never-Trumper, a carrier of TDS, who went on to say that Trump was a pedophile, had organized an insurrection, and that Charlie Kirk was evil. I’ve heard a lot of people claim they didn’t like Charlie Kirk, but I have never heard anybody call him evil.  I was totally surprised by this, yet I let the TDS voice keep ranting and venting all its emotions, when an old memory popped up about something t...

                                        The  Constitutionist Free Newsletter Items, Analysis, Opinions and News Gathered from Everywhere By Steven Maikoski, Author:  “The Real Constitution and its Real Enemies” constitutionist@protonmail.com    12-23-2025 First, a personal note, and then some remarks about the Turning Point AmericaFest in Phoenix.  I’ll discuss politics after Christmas. On December 23, 1957, our family (4 children, Mom & Dad) finished its two-week voyage on the USNS Henry Gibbins, landing in Colon, Canal Zone, Panama.   That trip started in New York City, then to Norfolk, VA, then to Guantanamo, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and then to Colon, on the Atlantic side of Panama.   After gathering our luggage, our family divided into two cars to drive across the isthmus, traveling from the Atlantic side to the Pacific s...

                                     The  Constitutionist Free Newsletter Items, Analysis, Opinions and News Gathered from Everywhere By Steven Maikoski, Author:  “The Real Constitution and its Real Enemies” constitutionist@protonmail.com   December 15, 2025 This is not a political newsletter; it’s a memorial issue for our long-time readers. Most of you knew the writer Burt Prelutsky, whose articles gathered many of the people in this newsletter group.  Burt wrote for several notable TV shows, including M*A*S*H, Diagnosis Murder, Dragnet, and several Mary Tyler Moore shows.  He also wrote a daily political newsletter, the quality of which still amazes me. Burt died on December 17, 2021, so as his memorial date approaches, I wanted to share a few words that some of his readers sent to me in this last week.   But first, one of our group, James Fu...

                                                                                       The  Constitutionist Free Newsletter Items, Analysis, Opinions and News Gathered from Everywhere By Steven Maikoski, Author:  “The Real Constitution and its Real Enemies” constitutionist@protonmail.com   December 3, 2025 This is a quick newsletter, written because politics are getting very spicy and I have two doctor’s appointments today.  Whew! Obviously, President Trump has grown tired of a partisan press that does not do its studies before reportersxs  ask questions.  When CBS News White House Correspondent Nancy Cordes, asked Trump why he blamed the Biden Administration for not vetting the Afghans who were import...

    The  Constitutionist Free Newsletter Items, Analysis, Opinions and News Gathered from Everywhere By Steven Maikoski, Author:  “The Real Constitution and its Real Enemies” constitutionist@protonmail.com   November 22, 2025 The Seditious Six & M.T.G.  Marjorie Taylor Greene’s leaving Congress was a little surprising; her closing remarks were not.   Here’s why: Many years ago, I listened to a local congressman explain that after he was elected, he was under constant supervision by his political party; he was very frustrated.  He wanted to make a difference but could not.  He finished his one term, then left the work to someone else.  MTG is frustrated as well.  But why is MTG suddenly leaving, abandoning her two-year commitment to her constituents? How many of you remember the term SCUTTLEBUTT?  It used to mean a barrel of water on a ship for the sailors’ refreshment, but in the last hundred years, the Navy and Marine...