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Latest Articles: U.S. Constitution
The American Experiment In Liberty Has Failed
Post Date: 2016-01-12 13:32:27 by tpaine
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Forbesonforb.es/HVjmgr The American Experiment In Liberty Has Failed It is, perhaps, a fact provocative of sour mirth that the Bill of Rights was designed trustfully to prohibit forever two of the favorite crimes of all known governments: the seizure of private property without adequate compensation and the invasion of the citizen’s liberty without justifiable cause…It is a fact provocative of mirth yet more sour that the execution of these prohibitions was put into the hands of courts, which is to say, into the hands of lawyers, which is to say, into the hands of men specifically educated to discover legal excuses for dishonest, dishonorable and anti-social acts. ______ ...
Op-Ed Is Ted Cruz a 'natural born Citizen'? Not if you're a constitutional originalist.
Post Date: 2016-01-11 12:29:50 by cranky
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Article II of the Constitution states: “No Person except a natural born Citizen . . . shall be eligible to the Office of President.” Donald Trump thinks Sen. Ted Cruz is not a “natural born Citizen” and that he is therefore constitutionally ineligible to be president. Is Trump right? Cruz was born in 1970 in Calgary, Canada, to a U.S. citizen mother and a Cuban citizen father. As to his Article II status, it's all in how you read the Constitution.There are three leading theories of how to interpret the Constitution today. One is textualism: the Constitution means what its words say. The historical context of the words is important when a modern plain meaning is not ...
Article V Convention Used in Attempt to Change Our Constitution (1 of 2)
Post Date: 2016-01-09 13:42:26 by Roy Batty
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Can we write a better constitution today? This is an open letter to all State Legislators and should be read by every American Citizen. Greetings. I am Alexander Reagan, an average American who is troubled with the direction American is heading in. I am writing to you today to address a concern of such national magnitude that it has the potential of changing our form of government and the power it has over us and our children. I appeal to your sense of decency to study the following facts you may not have considered concerning this matter. All States, except for Hawaii, have numerous applications petitioning Congress to call an Constitutional Article V Convention. One of the most recent ...
Friedrichs Supreme Court Case Can Increase Employee Rights & Economic Vitality
Post Date: 2016-01-09 10:13:49 by cranky
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Should unionized employees be forced to pay dues to support their union’s political positions they oppose? Rebecca Friedrichs says no. She is the lead plaintiff in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, which begins oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Monday. The plaintiffs seek to free unionized public sector employees from paying dues on First Amendment grounds. The case has implications for job creators and American employees at large. A plaintiff victory would essentially expand “right-to-work” nationwide for public sector employees, creating a more vibrant economic climate for job creation and small business. Friedrichs is a California school teacher who ...
Judge Helps Ensure That The More Ignorant Law Enforcement Officers Are, The More They'll Be Able To Get Away With
Post Date: 2016-01-07 11:19:36 by Deckard
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from the useful-idiots-on-the-front-line-of-the-Drug-War dept So much for the Fourth Amendment. Even though a field test for marijuana returned false results twice and a SWAT team raid of Robert and Addie Harte's house turned up no drugs or paraphernalia, the cops involved have been let off the hook by a federal judge. Radley Balko runs down the details of the decision in his post entitled "Federal judge: Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause for a SWAT raid on your home." The family was held at gunpoint for more than two hours while the police searched their home. Though they claimed to be looking for evidence of a major marijuana growing operation, ...
New ATF guidance on gun sales is legally meaningless (or else it would be unlawful)
Post Date: 2016-01-05 19:45:06 by tpaine
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The Volokh Conspiracy Opinion New ATF guidance on gun sales is legally meaningless (or else it would be unlawful) By Jonathan H. Adler January 5 at 11:43 AM Today the White House announced a series of executive branch actions (not executive orders) that are supposed to reduce the threat of gun violence. Chief among these measures is a new guidance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) concerning when those who sell guns are required to obtain a federal license and perform background checks of prospective gun purchasers. The ATF is also finalizing a regulation that would prevent prospective gun purchasers from avoiding background checks by acquiring guns ...
GOP field wants no part of Oregon standoff
Post Date: 2016-01-04 20:43:38 by Willie Green
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Washington (CNN)A standoff in Oregon is one clash over the federal government's role that the Republican presidential field wants no part of. An armed group of protesters, including two brothers whose family was involved in a similar clash in 2014, took control Saturday of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge building, a federal facility near Burns, Oregon. They've said they won't leave and want the government to hand over land resources there. But conservatives who are in many cases sympathetic to their cause criticized their tactics on Monday, as the standoff rippled through the presidential campaign trail. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio called them "lawless." Texas Sen. ...
They have been ridding the boys of the “Davy Crockett” mindset ... to get narcissistic - puerile - self-mutilating Jenners --- so they can collapse civilization - move us into slavery again - like all other godless cultures.
Post Date: 2016-01-03 13:12:56 by BorisY
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To: Nachum When we have a “justice” system which punishes Virtue and rewards Vice (Marxism/welfare(slavery)/sodomy (satanism)—like we have since before the “abortion” “laws” and evil Justice Holmes took Virtue out of our “Justice” system-——you have a Vice System that CRIES to be disobeyed. (True masculine males will have to step forward eventually—or submit to slavery). Without Just Law, chaos is inevitable-—it is what the Cultural Marxist takeover in the 30s was all about-—to create hate and division and take down EVERYONE who wants to be Free of tyranny (the Real Masculine Males). PS-—that is why the ...
Breaking: VT Judge may have to toss Cruz, Rubio & Jindal off of state's ballot (ineligible for US president)
Post Date: 2016-01-03 05:06:23 by Hondo68
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Could there be 2 less candidates on the ballot in VT?Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesAlthough Bobby Jindal has already dropped out of the race, the 3 Republican contenders for the GOP nomination for President were all originally listed in an eligibility challenge filed in Vermont back in December. The plaintiff, H. Brooke Paige had previously filed court challenges against the alleged ineligibility of Obama in reference to the natural-born citizen requirement contained in the US Constitution. That case eventually found its way to Vermont's State Supreme Court. According to a report in the Burlington Free Press on October 13, 2013, "The high court ruled 5-0 that Paige’s ...
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Congress Ban on Offensive Trademarks
Post Date: 2015-12-24 12:14:14 by cranky
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Offensive terms can receive trademark protection, and Congress’s 70-year-old statute to the contrary violates the First Amendment, a federal appeals court held in a case that is likely to now go before the Supreme Court. Article I of the Constitution includes the provision that Congress has power to grant patents and copyrights. In 1946, Congress passed the Lanham Act, the modern version of the law securing trademark rights. Section 2(a) of that federal statute forbids the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) from granting trademarks for “scandalous, immoral, or disparaging remarks.” Simon Tam is an Asian-American entertainer who sought to trademark the ...
EXCLUSIVE: DHS placing patriots on domestic terror watch lists in unlawful attempt to escalate violent interactions with police
Post Date: 2015-12-23 07:11:31 by Stoner
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(NaturalNews) EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security is intentionally placing local law enforcement in harm's way by knowing (and falsely) entering the license plates of patriot-oriented radio hosts in the federal "terror watch" database. The aim of this tactic is to intentionally cause escalations of high-tension interactions between local police and pro-gun patriots, knowing that local law enforcement will respond to terror watch list hits with an escalated engagement posture involving firearms being drawn and pointed at the suspects. The DHS -- obviously at the command of an anti-American Obama regime that absolutely despises both patriots and police officers -- is ...
Bill of Rights Day: A Day of Mourning
Post Date: 2015-12-15 17:25:45 by Hondo68
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Editor’s Note: Bill of Rights Day is December 15th. But as Kevin Gutzman points out in this article, originally published December 14, 2009, it’s not a day of celebration. Instead, it should be a day of mourning for the death of decentralized self-government. In 2008, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Kennedy v. Louisiana. In that decision, the Court created a new categorical right to rape a child without receiving the death penalty. Although the majority made mention of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishment,” no one really believed that this new right had any basis in the Constitution. The Court majority claimed that ...
A Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Post Date: 2015-12-08 21:44:02 by tpaine
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pedestrianinfidel.blogspot.com Islam not just a religion -- Islam is a totalitarian political machine of bloodthirsty conquest which zealously advocates the downfall of all non Muslim governments, in particular the U.S. government. Thursday, February 08, 2007 Background and justification to Amendment 28 Whereas Religion is defined as an institution dedicated to improving social conscience and promoting individual and societal spiritual growth in a way that is harmless to others not participating in or practicing the same; Whereas the United States of America was founded on the ideals of individual rights, including the individual right to practice one’s religion of choice, or no ...
Senator Mitch McConnell To Obama: Please, Just Tell Us What Law You Need To Ban Encryption And You'll Get It
Post Date: 2015-12-08 10:28:10 by Hondo68
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from the begging-to-undermine-american-security dept Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has always been a friend of the intelligence community, but he's using the attack in San Bernadino to ramp up the anti-encryption insanity to new levels, practically begging President Obama to tell him what law he wants to ban encryption, and McConnell will help make sure Congress delivers. McConnell's statement was laying out what he thought President Obama should do in response to ISIS, and includes this ridiculous line: He should tell us what legal authorities he needs to defeat encrypted online communications, and what is needed to reestablish our capture, interrogation, and surveillance ...
Not one further inch
Post Date: 2015-12-07 10:55:19 by Deckard
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In the wake of any “mass shooting,” the leaders who cry quickest and loudest for more gun control are the ones with the most blood on their hands. It’s almost as if these crises were tailor-made to push their agenda. They weep crocodile tears as they sing siren songs about how we just need to ban “assault rifles” and “high-capacity” magazines; we just need to “close the gun-show loophole;” we just need to put gun-control under the aegis of healthcare; we just need to trust them and we’ll all be much safer. These are the same people who refuse to uphold the very Constitution they swore an oath to protect – the people who grant themselves ...
Supreme Court won’t review laws banning assault weapons [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-12-07 10:44:55 by misterwhite
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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the ability of cities and states to prohibit semiautomatic high-capacity assault weapons that have been used in some of the nation’s most deadly recent mass shootings. The justices decided not to reconsider a lower court’s decision in a case from the city of Highland Park, Ill., near Chicago. But seven states — Maryland, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York — have similar bans, and all of the prohibitions remain in place. Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia said the court should review the ban, which “flouts” the court’s Second Amendment jurisprudence. They ...
ACT OF WAR!
Post Date: 2015-12-04 21:19:21 by buckeroo
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So 0bama and his best pal GWBush think terrorism is not rooted in Muslim mosques? Are these total assholes worthy of another consideration? Arm yourselves, my friends because if terroism is in a hospital, it will be in your home NEXT! San Bernardino shooting investigated as 'act of terrorism' (CNN)The San Bernardino, California, mass shooting is now being investigated as "an act of terrorism," FBI official David Bowdich said Friday. Bowdich said the FBI "uncovered evidence ... of extreme planning." He said some phone conversations between at least one of the shooters and other people are being investigated. The announcement means the FBI has become the lead ...
Justices take up meaning of 'one person, one vote'
Post Date: 2015-12-04 17:03:57 by cranky
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The growing political influence of Latinos could be slowed by a Supreme Court case over the constitutional requirement to make electoral districts roughly equal in population. Two voters in Texas are asking the court, in arguments set for Tuesday, to order a drastic change in the way Texas and all other states divide their electoral districts. Rather than basing the maps on total population, including non-citizens and children who aren't old enough to vote, states must count only people who are eligible to vote, the challengers say. They argue that change is needed to carry out the principle of one person, one vote. They claim that taking account of total population can lead to vast ...
Man charged with felony for passing out jury rights fliers in front of courthouse
Post Date: 2015-12-02 10:16:13 by Willie Green
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MECOSTA COUNTY, Mich. — A Mecosta man is charged with a felony for obstruction of justice and misdemeanor of tampering with a jury for passing out fliers about jury nullification rights on the sidewalk of the Mecosta County courthouse. Keith Wood, 39, faces these charges after handing out about 50 fliers on Nov. 24, which the Fully Informed Jury Association wrote, that describe juror rights that are typically not given by judges during jury instructions before a trial. Wood's Attorney Dave Kallman told FOX 17 the charges are "outrageous," especially after Wood posted bond set at $150,000 last Tuesday. Obstruction of justice is a five-year felony with up to $10,000 in ...
Sorry Democrats, But There Is No ‘Loophole’ That Allows Terrorists To Legally Buy Guns
Post Date: 2015-12-01 21:25:46 by Stoner
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In their zeal to defeat Republican terrorists, Democrats have decided that the constitutional right to due process is a loophole that must be closed Sean Davis By Sean Davis November 23, 2015 Share on email Email Share on print Print Follow Us on Twitter Like Us on Facebook Hangout with us Having overwhelmingly lost the public debate about whether the Obama administration’s Syrian refugee screening policy should be enhanced, Democrats have retreated to more comfortable rhetorical ground: demanding more gun control. Their new secret weapon? A bill that would ban anyone whose name appears on a terror watch list from buying or possessing a firearm. The idea sounds reasonable enough ...
Cops Set Up Multiple “Heroin Checkpoints” Search Every Car with K-9s – Media is Silent
Post Date: 2015-11-26 08:23:42 by Deckard
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By John Vibes All major routes coming in and out of Bel Air, Maryland were blocked by police this Tuesday, who set up checkpoints and searched cars with drug dogs. Thousands of cars were searched in the operation, which was not reported by any local news media and was not announced by the police department. Many people had suspected that police were out in strong force ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, searching for drunk drivers. However, witnesses reported that the police were actually in search of drugs, specifically heroin, and they even had massive construction signs posted that said “Heroin checkpoint ahead, Drug K9 In Use.” Readers of The Free Thought Project ...
Yes Jefferson did have a role in the crafting of the Constitution
Post Date: 2015-11-24 04:43:14 by tomder55
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Ha, ha, ha. Boy, thatBenCarson sure made a fool of himself on C-Span the other day. He said Thomas Jefferson "tried to craft our Constitution in a way that it would control people's natural tendencies." Critics pounced. Jefferson didn't craft our Constitution, they said. He was on the other side of the Atlantic acting as the U.S. minister in France at the time of the Constitutional Convention. As Politico put it: Jefferson crafted the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. What a dope that Carson guy is. How did he ever get to be a surgeon? I'm laughing so hard, I gotta wipe tears from my eyes. Except, wait a minute, hmmmm, here's an interesting ...
Carson: A Database On Every Citizen (Tyranny competition with Trump, etc.)
Post Date: 2015-11-20 20:13:44 by Hondo68
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"If we don't, we are doing a very poor job" Image Credits: Gage Skidmore, Wikimeida Commons.On Friday Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said: “I think we should have a database on everybody who comes into this country” and added “hopefully, we already have a database on every citizen who is already here. If we don’t, we are doing a very poor job.”Carson made the remark as he filed for the New Hampshire presidential primary in Concord.The question was posed after Donald Trump declared earlier in the week during a campaign stop in Idaho “security is going to rule” if he is elected.“We’re going to have to do things that we ...
Rand Paul: 'Bulls**t' to ramp up NSA surveillance post-Paris
Post Date: 2015-11-19 17:04:03 by Hondo68
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says claims the government needs to ramp up surveillance in the wake of the Paris attacks are "bulls**t." "So when they stand up on television and say the tragedy in Paris means you have to give up your liberty, we need more phone surveillance — bulls**t!" Paul, a 2016 presidential contender, said during a campaign event at George Washington University on Thursday.The attacks in Paris, which took the lives of at least 129 people, have renewed the debate over government surveillance and encryption of communications devices.Legislation passed by Congress earlier this year will shutter the National Security Agency's (NSA) phone data ...
Bush Says No National Right to Gun Ownership? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-11-15 17:52:30 by Don
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Bush Says No National Right to Gun Ownership? By Dave Dolbee published on November 10, 2015 in News Jeb Bush recently made an appearance on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when the subject of whether there is a national right to gun ownership came up. Bush’s answer may be concerning to many, but let’s reserve judgment until we look at the entire story. However, whether his answer was his true opinion or a gaff, is concerning. During the interview, Colbert asked a written-in question regarding the Constitution and whether it implied a national right to gun ownership. Jeb Bush, a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment, veered a bit off course when his answer drifted ...
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