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Latest Articles: U.S. Constitution
Obama’s Health-Care Overhaul Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court
Post Date: 2012-06-28 10:19:45 by Brian S
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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the core of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, giving him an election-year triumph and preserving most of a law that would expand insurance to millions of people and transform an industry that makes up 18 percent of the nation’s economy. The justices, voting 5-4, said Congress has the power to make Americans carry insurance or pay a penalty. That requirement is at the core of the law, which also forces insurers to cover people with pre-existing health conditions. The court limited the law’s extension of the Medicaid program for the poor by saying the federal government can’t threaten to withhold money from states that don’t ...
The Hard Sell
Post Date: 2012-06-26 17:13:31 by Mad Dog
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The books a child sneaks off his parents’ bookshelves and surreptitiously reads ought to be sex books. “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” and “Memoirs of Hecate County” scandalized and educated earlier generations. The volume I made off with was a 75-cent paperback of “The Hidden Persuaders” by Vance Packard. It did scandalize me, completely. But it did so by exposing the secret world of advertising and brands. Published in 1957, it is now enjoying its 50th anniversary and a new edition from Ig Publishing, with an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller. I remember my own edition as small enough to hide — not that I really needed to — but packed with ...
Dems Admit Obama’s Not Eligible
Post Date: 2012-06-24 17:17:55 by CZ82
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Dems Admit Obama’s Not Eligible Doug Book Weary of defending in court the Constitutional eligibility of their man at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the Democrat Party has finally admitted Barack Obama is not qualified to be president of the United States– and that it doesn’t matter. According to a motion filed by Party attorneys in a Tennessee eligibility lawsuit, “…Defendants [the Tennessee Democrat Party and the Democrat National Committee] assert that the Tennessee Democrat Party has the right to nominate whoever it chooses to run as a candidate, including someone who is not qualified for the office.” In numerous previous lawsuits questioning the ...
House Could Send Holder to Jail Without Approval of Senate or US Attorney
Post Date: 2012-06-24 00:06:42 by A K A Stone
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I’ve been watching all of the media reporting on the Contempt of Congress charges being made against U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. As usual, you can tell that the main stream media are right there in Holder’s camp and reporting that the measure will either die in the Democratic controlled Senate or when it goes before U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, who just happens to work for Holder. However, if Rep. Darrell Issa really wants to get his point across with Holder, he can bypass the Senate and the U.S. Attorney by making the charge against Holder to be ‘inherent contempt.’ Inherent contempt is a rarely used charge these days. In fact, the last time it ...
Religious Freedom: Why Americans Are Celebrating and Defending It Now
Post Date: 2012-06-21 10:02:08 by SJN
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Today marks the beginning of the “Fortnight of Freedom.” This two-week period culminating on July 4 is a time to celebrate and defend America’s first freedom, religious liberty. Why make special effort to celebrate religious freedom now? Because religious freedom is a key pillar of the kind of life we enjoy in America, recognizing the dignity of human persons and our obligations to a higher power than civil government. This is why the Founders embraced freedom of religion as an essential condition of a free and democratic society. Religious liberty means we can worship freely without fear of the government raiding our homes, threatening our loved ones, or otherwise ...
Romney Says He Wouldn't Need Approval of Congress to Attack Iran [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-06-20 12:20:38 by SJN
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Appearing with Bob Schieffer on Sunday’s Face the Nation, Republican presidential candidate and “presumptive nominee” Mitt Romney said that if he is elected in November, he would not need congressional approval to start a war with Iran. Specifically, Romney said: I can assure you if I'm president, the Iranians will have no question but that I will be willing to take military action if necessary to prevent them from becoming a nuclear threat to the world. I don't believe at this stage, therefore, if I'm president that we need to have a war powers approval or special authorization for military force. The president has that capacity now. I understand that some in ...
Opposing Unconstitutional Wars
Post Date: 2012-06-20 00:52:43 by SJN
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Much has been speculated and written since my endorsement of Mitt Romney for president. Many in the liberty movement and my longtime supporters wondered if, as a result of endorsing someone for office, I would stand up to them when they went astray. The question to me is as strange as the answer is simple: Yes, strongly. Every time. I have always done what I believe and I have never been blinded by party. In my time in the United States Senate, I have opposed the USA Patriot Act, voted against the NDAA over indefinite detention, fought to end mandatory minimum drug sentences, and voted against my party’s official budget because it didn’t cut enough spending. I introduced a ...
W.Va. Not Likely To Repeal Castle Doctrine Law
Post Date: 2012-06-18 20:31:00 by CZ82
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W.Va. Not Likely To Repeal Castle Doctrine Law June 16, 2012, by FRED CONNORS - Senior Staff Writer , The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register WHEELING - A national effort to repeal Castle Doctrine laws in 26 states is falling on deaf ears in West Virginia. State Senate President Jeffrey Kessler, D-Marshall, who authored the law as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2008, said the statute codifies West Virginia's long-standing common-law tradition of residents' right of self defense. "I don't see any appetite in the Legislature to revisit our existing Castle Doctrine," he said. Reviewing West Virginia’s Castle Doctrine law, Ohio County Prosecutor ...
Lawmakers lose election but refuse to leave
Post Date: 2012-06-14 20:55:44 by CZ82
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Lawmakers lose election but refuse to leave Citizens outraged by 'violation of Constitution' by Joe Kovacs What would happen if an election took place, and the incumbent losers refused to leave office? That’s exactly the situation in Quartzsite, Ariz., where two winning candidates for the positions of mayor and town councilman are not being allowed to be seated. Quartzsite is the town that gained national attention last June when police grabbed a woman who was speaking at a town-council meeting and frogmarched her from the event. (Scroll down for video). The 2012 municipal election took place May 15, but the old town council in Quartzsite has since refused to seat Ed ...
The Truth about the Health Care Bill By Someone Who Actually Read It
Post Date: 2012-06-08 13:42:25 by CZ82
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The Truth about the Health Care Bill By Someone Who Actually Read It posted on June 8, 2012 by Godfather Politics by Michael Connelly Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected. To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for ...
The U.S. Military is Operating Drones Domestically and Sharing Data with Law Enforcement
Post Date: 2012-06-07 14:51:23 by Capitalist Eric
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MQ-9 Reaper mid-flight (Image credit: U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson) As many are now well aware, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is pushing for the integration of drones into the national airspace, especially for use by law enforcement and unsurprisingly a bill was passed and signed into law doing just that. This is disturbing to some, for good reason. It has become clear that when you give the federal government an inch, they will take a mile. This can be seen quite plainly in the so-called war on terror and how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has rapidly expanded into a massive agency which regularly violates our rights. It can also be seen in how ...
Tax cut ahead if high court voids health care law
Post Date: 2012-06-05 19:37:39 by We The People
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Expectations in Washington have reached feverish heights as supporters and foes of the Affordable Care Act fret about a Supreme Court ruling in the next few weeks that will decide its fate – and potentially set off a cascade of policy reverberations.Alex Wong / Getty ImagesTwenty-six attorney generals, who are the plaintiffs of the lawsuit against the healthcare reform, leave the U.S. Supreme Court March 28, 2012 in Washington, DC.If the justices strike down the law in its entirety, for example, they would do away with $1.4 trillion in planned spending over the next ten years. Since there would be no expansion of Medicaid eligibility and no creation of insurance subsidies for ...
At last: parental authority challenges government intruders
Post Date: 2012-06-03 08:50:08 by CZ82
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At last: parental authority challenges government intruders By Wes Vernon It has been a century since Woodrow Wilson reportedly opined that young boys should grow up to be as unlike their fathers as possible. Whether he worded it exactly that way, our 28th president surely pursued the goal, both as educator and as politician. Not that his era was the first to witness a challenge to parents' prerogative. However, the early 20th century "progressive movement" (of which Wilson was a part) did offer up the most open manifestation of that attitude in American official circles up to that moment in history. Different versions, same crusade In our own time, Hillary Clinton has ...
President Obama Has Outspent Last Five Presidents
Post Date: 2012-06-02 14:31:56 by Mad Dog
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President Obama has shelled out more in federal spending than the five presidents that came before him. A new chart by the Comeback America Initiative (CAI), a non-partisan group dedicated to promoting fiscal responsibility by policymakers, shows federal spending by president as a percentage of GDP, and it doesn't reflect well on Obama. "There has been a dramatic increase in spending under the Obama administration," David Walker, Founder and CEO of CAI, told Whispers. "Most of it is attributable to year one of his presidency and the stimulus... but President Obama has continued to take spending to a new level." Federal spending was close to 20 percent under the ...
Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Says
Post Date: 2012-05-31 12:17:20 by Brian S
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A federal appeals court in Boston ruled that the heart of the Defense of Marriage Act -- defining marriage as only a heterosexual union --is unconstitutional. Plaintiffs in Boston challenged Section 3 of the act, claiming it was discriminatory because federal Social Security, veterans and other benefits were denied to same-sex couples married in Massachusetts, where such unions are legal. “The denial of federal benefits to same-sex couples lawfully married does burden the choice of states like Massachusetts to regulate the rules and incidents of marriage,” the appeals judges said in their opinion today, upholding the ruling of a lower court. The justices stayed the ruling ...
Human Rights vs Natural Rights - Tyranny, or freedom.
Post Date: 2012-05-30 18:51:20 by SJN
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Leftists are masters of language. By shifting words and phrases, they are frequently able to secure victory in an argument with many apolitical, salt-of-the-earth Americans and even some conservatives. They’ve done this in the classroom by referring to the American military as “imperialist,” and in the public square by labeling capitalism as a greedy system whereby people only become rich at the expense of others. Yet over the course of the last few decades, the Left’s most rewarding play on language has been a not-so-subtle shift from focusing on natural rights to focusing on “human rights.” The former are fixed and derived from God through nature, while the ...
Warrantless spying fight
Post Date: 2012-05-24 23:05:56 by We The People
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Obama officials demand full, reform-free renewal of the once-controversial power to eavesdrop without warrants President Barack Obama waves upon his arrival at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (Credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) In 2006, The New York Times‘ James Risen and Eric Lichtblau won the Pulitzer Prize for their December, 2005 article revealing that the Bush administration was eavesdropping on the electronic communications of Americans without the warrants required by the FISA law (headline: “Officials Say U.S. Wiretaps Exceeded Law”). Even though multiple federal judges eventually ruled the program illegal, that scandal ...
*****Death of a Patriot*****
Post Date: 2012-05-24 22:57:45 by We The People
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News comes to Canada Free Press (CFP) this morning from columnist Michael Oberndorf of the passing of outstanding American patriot, Henry Lamb. One of a kind Tennessean Henry Lamb held a lifelong dedication to the American Constitution, and did more to warn average people about the destructive encroachment of the United Nations on human society than any other source. His columns on the UN’s Agenda 21 which appeared on CFP, World Net Daily and elsewhere, were classics. The results of Lamb’s long ago dire warnings on the The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea treaty, sadly passed through ...
NAPOLITANO: What if we have only memories of freedom?
Post Date: 2012-05-24 22:48:55 by We The People
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What if Memorial Day reminds us of times when we had more freedom? What if freedom is dying right under our eyes? What if the memory of the past is more fulfilling than the reality of the present?What if the federal government could write any law, regulate any behavior and tax any event, no matter what the Constitution authorized? What if the majority in Congress rejects the idea of limited government and views the Constitution as granting it blanket power to do whatever it can get away with? What if the constitutional prohibition on the government’s taking of life, liberty or property without due process of law is only for show?What if the House of Representatives seriously considered ...
3 IN 4 SAY RELIGIOUS RIGHTS TRUMP LAW Poll: Americans define demands for abortion services as 'morally wrong'
Post Date: 2012-05-24 18:02:49 by Mad Dog
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A new poll shows that in a conflict between religious freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment and a federal law mandating abortion or abortion coverage, the First Amendment trumps. In the Knights of Columbus-Marist Poll, nearly three in four Americans, 74 percent, said freedom of religion should be protected “even if it conflicts with other laws.” “This survey reveals that the American people are fundamentally dedicated to protecting the First Amendment conscience rights of everyone,” said Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson. “Allowing people to opt out of these procedures or services – which violate their faith – is the right thing to do. It is also key ...
Notre Dame sues Obama administration over birth control mandate
Post Date: 2012-05-24 14:02:59 by Mad Dog
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On Monday, the University of Notre Dame filed suit against the Obama administration over its rule that all employers must offer contraception in their insurance plans. Notre Dame is now the seventh religious college to sue over the mandate; it's also the largest school to do so. President Barack Obama gave the commencement address at the prominent Catholic university in 2009. In its suit, the school says that health care reform's contraception mandate violates its religious freedom and would require it to go against Catholic principles by offering contraception and sterilization to students and faculty in its insurance plan. The university serves 11,500 students of different ...
The Dozen Lawsuits Filed Today Garnered all of 15 Seconds on CBS News. We Shall Overcome.
Post Date: 2012-05-24 13:25:32 by Mad Dog
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Thinking along these lines then, I can’t remember the last time I actually watched the evening news. Too many ads from pharmaceutical companies and not enough real news as I recall. But tonight, what with the news that 40+ Catholic organizations sued the government by simultaneously filing a dozen lawsuits across the country, I decided to take a look, and realized pretty quickly that I’m never going to get back that half hour of my life. I didn’t bother with CNN, or Fox, but I informally surveyed what used to be the Big Three, ABC, CBS, and NBC. Of those three networks, only CBS mentioned the story at all. Deep into the program, ’round about the 25 minute mark, Scott ...
Fury Spreads: Catholic Leaders Join MRC Outrage Over Network Silence on Catholics vs. Obama Lawsuit
Post Date: 2012-05-24 13:07:46 by Mad Dog
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Nine prominent Catholic leaders have joined the Media Research Center to voice outrage over the broadcast networks deliberately withholding news of the momentous 43 Catholic entities suing the Obama administration for violating their religious freedoms. They represent major organizations including the Acton Institute, Cardinal Newman Society, SBA List and others. More are coming in every hour. There are 60 million Catholics in the US. The Catholic vote will be the most important swing vote this year. So it’s not just a major policy issue, it is one with massive political implications. Yet, 19 seconds of news coverage remains the only attention given by the evening broadcast networks. ...
Breaking: OSV, Notre Dame, Others File Lawsuit -UPDATED
Post Date: 2012-05-24 12:49:31 by Mad Dog
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Our Sunday Visitor announced this minutes ago: At 11 a.m. Eastern time today, 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations — including Our Sunday Visitor and the University of Notre Dame — filed religious liberty lawsuits against the federal government in a dozen different jurisdictions around the country. At issue are regulations that require Catholic organizations, employers and insurers to provide or facilitate abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception — in violation of their consciences. Equally troubling is the extreme narrowness of the government’s new test for determining which religious organizations are exempt from this mandate — which would ...
Inside the Beltway: Lawsuit, what lawsuit?
Post Date: 2012-05-24 12:38:11 by Mad Dog
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Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell has seen a lot of media abuse in his time as the master monitor of the liberal press. Now, he’s seen the very worst: The broadcast networks “all but spiked the largest legal action in history to defend our constitutionally protected religious freedom,” the analyst says, citing CBS, ABC and NBC for skimming over news that 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations filed a lawsuit Monday against the Obama administration. CBS managed to air 19 seconds on the subject. But that was it, between all three networks. “This is the worst bias by omission I have seen in the quarter-century history of the Media Research Center,” he says, ...
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