As much as I am incensed by the constant harangues in the news against Phil Robertson and any others who would take God’s side in their religious worldview, the actual GQ article leaves me a great deal less sanguine about the reaction of the public toward A&E’s firing him, which will most likely mean the cancellation of the show. Being a harsh critic of reality TV in general, I am going to maintain my opinion of “Duck Dynasty.”

Former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough thinks that what ails the GOP is not nominating leftist candidates like Chris Christie. Black Republican strategist, Raynard Jackson also wrote an article heralding Christie’s landslide win in a Blue State as the rubric for the GOP, while shaming Cuccinelli’s loss in Virginia as a sign that the party should turn away from conservative & Tea Party values that brought the party back from the dead in 2010.

It is sad that in these times when the government can so easily be controlled by a mere plurality of interests, and where all the different so-called “checks and balances” provided by the Constitution fail to prevent something as blatantly destructive to American liberty as Obamacare from becoming law, there still is no escape route for those of us living on the mainland. To borrow a phrase from a Cuban refugee who was speaking to Ronald Reagan, “If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to—this is the last stand on Earth.”

States have gone bankrupt, been invaded by foreigners, experienced massive power outages, and have seen terrorist attacks successfully waged upon them, with no effective protection from the government of the Union. Always, the response of the Union has been a knee-jerk reaction that results in higher taxes, more government agencies which snoop and spy on us, and less freedom for the citizens of the States. Might not the Citizens of New York, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, or Texas have fared better if they didn’t have to rely on the celebrity-politicians in Washington, D.C. for their own security?

Just what is an Anti-Federalist, and what did they believe? Simply put, the Anti-Federalists were the “radicals” who wanted to be free of the tyranny of the British Empire, and fought for the right of each of their States to be Sovereign, Free, and Independent. Although their politics varied and they existed in every State, today they would be likened to what our own Department of Homeland Security calls, “right-wing extremists.”

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Bishop E.W. Jackson ran on the GOP ticket in Virginia for governor and lieutenant governor, respectively, and lost this past week. So why did they lose, and what does that loss mean for the GOP, for Virginians, and for the American people?