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Latest Articles: U.S. Constitution
Federal Court Rejects Texas Voter Id Law As Unfair To Hispanics, African-Americans
Post Date: 2012-08-30 12:35:07 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — A federal court has ruled against a Texas law that would require voters to present photo IDs to election officials before being allowed to cast ballots in November. A three-judge panel in Washington ruled Thursday that the law imposes "strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor" and noted that racial minorities in Texas are more likely to live in poverty. The decision involves an increasingly contentious political issue: a push, largely by Republican-controlled legislatures and governor's offices, to impose strict identification requirements on voters. The ruling comes in the same week that South Carolina's strict photo ID law is on trial in front of ...
The new totalitarianism of surveillance technology
Post Date: 2012-08-22 14:34:28 by Capitalist Eric
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If you think that 24/7 tracking of citizens by biometric recognition systems is paranoid fantasy, just read the industry newslettersTom Cruise as John Anderton in the futuristic film Minority Report, where the advertisements use recognition technology to call out to the shoppers. Photograph: Allstar/20th Century FoxA software engineer in my Facebook community wrote recently about his outrage that when he visited Disneyland, and went on a ride, the theme park offered him the photo of himself and his girlfriend to buy – with his credit card information already linked to it. He noted that he had never entered his name or information into anything at the theme park, or indicated that he ...
Obama Will Win, Thanks to the Clueless Banana Republicans
Post Date: 2012-08-17 13:20:47 by Capitalist Eric
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Michael Rozeff’s post on the Lew Rockwell blog is correct: “Obama Will Win.” Rozeff asserts that “Ron Paul was the strongest candidate for the nomination, but the Republicans chose to die instead…” The so-called conservatives in America who preferred a socialist Big Government Establishment crackpot like Romney will nominate him and sweep Obama to a second term. The Romney supporters will once again put themselves in denial, call Romney a “conservative,” a “capitalist” (which he certainly is not!) and pretend that he would actually entertain the thought of cutting budgets, cutting deficits, dealing with the National Debt, dealing with the ...
November’s Choices
Post Date: 2012-08-17 13:09:07 by Capitalist Eric
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We are in terrible straits this presidential election. We have a choice between a president who has posed more of a danger to personal freedom than any in the past 150 years and a Republican team that wants to return to Bush-style big government. President Barack Obama has begun to show his hand at private fundraisers and in unscripted comments during his campaign. And the essence of his revelations is dark. His vision of a shared prosperity should frighten everyone who believes in freedom, because it is obvious that the president doesn’t. He believes the federal government somehow possesses power from some source other than the Constitution that enables it to take from the rich and ...
Soetoro’s 2012 election contingency
Post Date: 2012-07-30 13:27:01 by Capitalist Eric
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It was a conversation with my source inside the DHS that I did not want to have, but was not totally unexpected. “I’m not sure how long I can continue to provide you with information.” he stated. I was unable to tell if he made his statement with relief or sadness, or perhaps a mixture of both. “I could be wrong, but I don’t think there’s much time left, if I am interpreting certain information and actions correctly.” Previous Insider ColumnsThe planned re-election of Obama, revolutionary styleMore from DHS Insider Obviously intrigued, I asked what information and actions he was talking about, and whether he was in any trouble from the information ...
Going Postal, Pre-Pistol How did mass murderers operate before the advent of modern weapons?
Post Date: 2012-07-30 03:29:51 by Mad Dog
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The shooting spree that killed 12 people in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater on Friday has sparked a public debate about the availability of automatic weapons. Gun control advocates argue that mass murder is exceedingly difficult without them. One source told the Washington Post, “It’s kind of hard to be a pseudo-commando with a musket in the 18th century.” How did people commit mass murder before the advent of automatic weapons? Often with fire. Revolutionary War veteran Barnett Davenport is widely considered the first mass murderer in U.S. history. On the evening of Feb. 3, 1780, Davenport burst into the bedroom of his employer, Caleb Mallory, and began to bludgeon ...
Lieberman Claims His Internet Spying Bill Would Prevent ‘A 9/11 Pearl Harbor’
Post Date: 2012-07-25 11:59:59 by Brian S
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During a press conference at the capitol on Tuesday, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CN) urged fellow lawmakers to pass his Internet spying bill in order to prevent what he dubbed “a cyber 9/11 or a 9/11 Pearl Harbor.” “The danger of cyber attacks against the United States is clear, present and growing, with enemies ranging from rival nations to cyber terrorists to organized criminal organizations to rogue hackers,” he said. The Cyberecurity Act of 2012 represents a compromise version of legislation the former Democrat has been pushing since 2010, which flips his originally proposed mandates and replaces them with a voluntary incentive plan — a move key to securing ...
How “Reproductive Rights” Conflict with Natural Right
Post Date: 2012-07-24 20:21:43 by A K A Stone
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“Reproductive rights.” That’s how Planned Parenthood and pro-abortion politicians have been terming the right to abortion. Recently, I’ve been reading about John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) and his The Second Treatise of Government (1690). There’s a reason that Locke’s philosophy is timeless, why I still marvel at it after six years of learning about it, and why the world still marvels at it after 322 years. It’s because Locke scientifically concluded that man is born with rights and the state’s duty is to protect those rights. Unlike Thomas Hobbes, who argued that man’s life is short, nasty and brutish and ...
Nolu Chan Kicking Twit Robin and Twit Skip Intro's asses!
Post Date: 2012-07-23 23:56:55 by A K A Stone
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Title: Ron Johnson: High-Capacity Magazines Are A Constitutional Right (VIDEO) URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/ ... acity-magazines_n_1692810.html Post Date: 2012-07-22 12:23:33 by Skip Intro Keywords: None Views: 44 Comments: 9 WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) drew a fairly strict line in the sand on Sunday with respect to the coming debate over gun control, suggesting that there is a constitutional right to buy high-capacity clips and magazines. "Does something that would limit magazines that could carry 100 rounds, would that infringe on the constitutional right?" host Chris Wallace asked Johnson on "Fox News Sunday." "I believe so," ...
Universal Health Care is now ILLEGAL Obummer's BC found in BRITISH NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Post Date: 2012-07-20 17:13:55 by whyofcourse
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BORN IN KENYA thedailypen.blogspot.com/...h-records-discovered.html
Obamacare and the Revenge of the 'Secret Constitution'
Post Date: 2012-07-19 18:57:03 by Fibr Dog
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Obamacare and the Revenge of the 'Secret Constitution' by William Norman Grigg Obamacare and the Revenge of the 'Secret Constitution'by William Norman Grigg Recently by William Norman Grigg: Here Come the Draft-Nappers "[T]he majority has at all times a right to govern the minority, and to bind the latter to obedience to the will of the former…. In a general sense the will of the majority of the people is absolute and sovereign, limited only by its means and power to make its will effectual." ~ Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, III, 327, 330 "The scientific concept of dictatorship means nothing else but this ...
The Rule of Law
Post Date: 2012-07-19 18:46:03 by Fibr Dog
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The Rule of Law by Andrew P. Napolitano The Rule of Lawby Andrew P. NapolitanoRecently by Andrew P. Napolitano: We Are at a Turning Point The greatest distinguishing factor between countries in which there is some freedom and those where authoritarian governments manage personal behavior is the Rule of Law. The idea that the very laws that the government is charged with enforcing could restrain the government itself is uniquely Western and was accepted with near unanimity at the time of the creation of the American Republic. Without that concept underlying the exercise of governmental power, there is little hope for freedom. The Rule of Law is a three-legged stool on ...
Obama’s Imperial Presidency Guts Welfare Reform
Post Date: 2012-07-15 16:29:18 by CZ82
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Obama’s Imperial Presidency Guts Welfare Reform Amy Payne The imperial Presidency has overturned Congress and the law again. Not content to stop at rewriting immigration policy, education policy and energy policy, yesterday, President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive rewriting the welfare reform law of 1996. The new policy guts the federal work requirements that were the foundation of the Clinton-era reform. While this real news occurred yesterday, most of the media remained fixated on political ads and speeches, letting a major and unilateral shift in America’s welfare system go nearly unreported. Welfare reform ...
Fired teacher taking case to higher court
Post Date: 2012-07-09 15:30:44 by redleghunter
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One attorney says an Ohio science teacher, fired for asking his students to think critically about the theory of evolution, has every reason to take his case to the state Supreme Court. The Rutherford Institute is defending John Freshwater, who was suspended in 2008 and fired in 2010 from Mount Vernon Middle School for teaching alternative theories to evolution. "In most schools … they teach [evolution] as a fact. It's not a fact; it's still a theory. There are different viewpoints by people all the way from Albert Einstein to Ben Stein, the comedian," notes Institute president John Whitehead. "So there [are] a lot of different opinions on it, but all this man ...
Is It Time to Call for a Second Declaration of Independence?
Post Date: 2012-07-07 12:37:19 by CZ82
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Is It Time to Call for a Second Declaration of Independence? posted on July 4, 2012 by Jerry Bowyer Let’s start with a shocking, but true premise: If you are a patriotic American, you believe that there are circumstances under which it is right to take up arms against your own government. That statement feels wrong to me. It reeks of militia and McVeigh and toothless loons holed up with guns in cabins in order to avoid paying income taxes. But the fact remains that the rationale for the existence of the nation known as the United States of America, which first appeared in print 236 years ago today, is entirely dependent on the premise that there are indeed times “…when ...
The imperial presidency revisited
Post Date: 2012-07-06 17:22:19 by CZ82
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The imperial presidency revisited Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON — Though overshadowed by the shocking Supreme Court decision on health care, the court’s Arizona immigration decision, issued three days earlier, remains far more significant than appreciated. It was generally viewed as mixed or ambiguous because the Justice Department succeeded in striking down three of the law’s provisions. However, regarding the law’s central and most controversial element — requiring officers to inquire into the immigration status of anyone picked up for some other violation — the ruling was definitive, indeed unanimous. No liberal-conservative divide here. Not a single ...
GOP Governors & States Say ‘No’ To ObamaTax
Post Date: 2012-07-02 19:20:38 by CZ82
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GOP Governors & States Say ‘No’ To ObamaTax Twenty-six states are standing up to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act. Though Obamacare has been deemed Constitutional under the authority that Congress has to tax, though that was not how the law was even written, many states are declaring that they will not implement insurance exchanges or expand Medicare under Obamacare. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said that he is not in a hurry to implement the mandate. “We’ll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that’s part of a Congress willing to change, that’s the next step — political,” Walker said. ...
The Secret History of the Chief Justice’s Obamacare Decision
Post Date: 2012-07-02 01:10:45 by Abcdefg
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June 29, 2012The Secret History of the Chief Justice’s Obamacare Decision—A Commentary by John Fabian Witt ’99 The following commentary was posted on Balkinization.com on June 29, 2012. The Secret History of the Chief Justice’s Obamacare Decision By John Fabian Witt ’99 A Democratic Party president’s signature legislative victory is imperiled by an aging Supreme Court stocked by Republican appointees. Tricky constitutional law obstacles, including limits on the Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause, threaten to undo a vast federal insurance program designed to solve a pressing social crisis. But then one of the justices identifies an ...
The 1934 Dinner Party That May Have Helped Save Obamacare
Post Date: 2012-07-02 01:04:26 by Abcdefg
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The 1934 Dinner Party That May Have Helped Save Obamacare by Jonathan Alter Jul 1, 2012 4:45 AM EDT When FDR created Social Security, his labor secretary feared the court would reject it—until a justice told her over dinner that framing it as a tax could save it. By Jonathan Alter Could a 1934 Washington dinner party hold the key to Chief Justice John Roberts’ landmark decision on the Affordable Care Act In late 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had been in office more than a year and decided to move forward on what would become his greatest domestic achievement: Social Security. He assigned his secretary of labor, Frances Perkins, the first woman ever to serve ...
The Supreme Court defends the right to lie
Post Date: 2012-06-30 18:42:38 by buckeroo
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ON THURSDAY, the Supreme Court struck down, in a 6 to 3 ruling, the Stolen Valor Act of 2005, which declared it a federal misdemeanor to falsely present oneself as a decorated military officer. Likely to be overlooked in the wake of the Obamacare decision, the Court’s ruling in United States v. Alvarez is nevertheless a commendable reinforcement of the First Amendment and its sanctity. The case that became United States v. Alvarez began in 2007, when Xavier Alvarez, a California man, falsely and deliberately declared himself a retired Marine with 25 years of service and the “Congressional Medal of Honor.” He was tried and convicted in a California court under the terms of ...
Chief Justice Roberts: It's Not A Tax, It Is A Tax; It's Law, But It's Not 'Unlawful' to Break It
Post Date: 2012-06-29 18:52:17 by SJN
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In his deciding opinion in the cases challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (AKA Obamacare), Chief Justice John Roberts first says the mandate in the law requiring individuals to buy health insurance is not a tax. Then he says it is a tax. He upholds the individual mandate—as a tax, not a penalty—as the law of the land. But then says it would not be "unlawful" for Americans to violate the law's mandate that they "shall" buy health insurance--as long as they are willing to pay the "penalty" for not obeying the law. Roberts first examines the question of whether the Anti-Injunction Act prohibits Americans from bringing suit ...
SCOTUS Notebook: A Minute-by-Minute Account from Inside the Courtroom on the Big Day
Post Date: 2012-06-28 16:59:48 by SJN
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Outside the U.S. Supreme Court building this morning, some of the circus atmosphere returned from the days in March when the Affordable Care Act cases were argued. 9:35 a.m. Inside the courtroom, as observers arrive and seats are filling with the lucky members of the public, the press, and the Supreme Court bar. There is nervous anticipation. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, arrives and greets Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., at the front of the general public seating. 9:44 a.m. Court officers "shush" the crowd. But the din returns within a few minutes, and the officers shush again. 9:51 a.m. Retired Justice John Paul Stevens enters the courtroom from the columns to the right of the ...
Roberts the Swing Vote: Court Upholds Most of Health Care
Post Date: 2012-06-28 12:34:28 by Brian S
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On the last possible day, the Supreme Court upheld most of the Affordable Care Act. (Here’s a pdf of the opinion.) Who won, then? John Roberts, the Chief Justice, who put himself in the majority with the Court’s four liberals, and may have changed the definition of what we call “the Roberts Court”; President Barack Obama, whose first term was defined by it; our sense of how the balance of powers ought to work, and against, perhaps, our growing cynicism about the Court’s politicization (although there is a fine line between cynicism and simple prudence). A conservative court, and a conservative justice, upheld a law passed and treasured by liberals. This is not the ...
Supremes Court Craps in Constitution: UPHOLDS 0BUMACARE - Justice Kennedy Screws Conservatives As Usual (editors note, actually it was Roberts who screwed America) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-06-28 12:08:51 by Liberator
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Yes, in a vote of 5-4, the Supreme Court (infested with Leftists appointed by 0bama and that POS Anthony Kennedy nominated by a REAGAN!) uphold the illegal, un-constitutional 0bumaCare.
The Constitution just died a little more.
Justice Kennedy is a treasonous, un-principled little weasel - never mind joining Leftist-stacked court of Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, Satan-Ginsberg.
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*sshole Leftists and Statist Whores
Winds up the US Constitution IS a GD piece of USED toilet paper.
Supreme Court Strikes Down Stolen Valor Act For Military Medals
Post Date: 2012-06-28 11:38:56 by Brian S
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the Stolen Valor Act, which made it a crime to lie about receiving military medals. By a 6-3 decision, the high court said the right to lie about medals and military service, while unattractive, is protected by the 1st Amendment. The decision came in the case of Xavier Alvarez, a former member of the Three Valleys Municipal Water District in Southern California. Alvarez had claimed he was a former Marine and recipient of the Medal of Honor; in fact, he had never served in the military. Alvarez, a resident of Pomona, was sentenced to three years probation, a $5,000 fine and community service. His attorneys appealed; the 9th Circuit of Appeals ...
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