While he is currently in Davos at the World Economic Forum, giving the business to the globalist elites, earlier this week, Donald Trump was at his desk in the White House, signing Executive Orders as fast as they came on to his desk.

Welcome back, Donald.

One of those orders was about the "birthright citizenship" issue. Thanks to wildly ambiguous interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment ever since its ratification in the wake of the War Between the States, Americans have been led to believe that everyone born on American soil automatically becomes an American citizen.

Oh, contraire.

The Constitution does not say this. Trump recognizes the fact that we've been skating by on ambiguity for over 150 years. In one of these executive orders, he's made that known. (Apparently, some judge smacked a reprieve on the order earlier today, but the battle is not over.)

Of course, the usual suspects are crowing about racism and the rest of it, but Trump's legitimate—and Constitutional—argument carries more weight than the squawking from those the virtue-signaling class.

My friend and colleague, the eminent historian Tom Woods, has a good "Tweet" about this issue. Warning! Smackdown incoming:

In case you don't want to click or don't happen to fancy the 𝕏–Twitter realm as much as I do, mid-tweet, Tom references two Ivy League professors:

So even though their conclusion runs counter to their personal political beliefs, and they are not Trump sympathizers in the least, they contend that the evidence is so strong against birthright citizenship that scholarly honesty compels them to say so: "The fact that many opponents of birthright citizenship for the children of unauthorized parents harbor anti-immigrant views does not mean that their bottom-line position is wrong."

Trump also pardoned a fellow named Ross Ulbricht from prison. I was never hardline on getting Ulbricht out of prison like the doctrinaire libertarians have been, but if you do a cursory glance at the case, you'll realize the fellow was railroaded and even if he was guilty of something, the sentence was more than egregious.

"The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me. He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!"

Well, my pal Adam Haman wanted to talk about a few of these things, so we got together yesterday knocked out our newest episode of the Natural Order Podcast. Worth the wait.

As always,

Brian