Posts Tagged ‘constitution’
Apparatchiks and News Media — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Rush Linbaugh, on his radio talk show yesterday, used a term which defined major news sources like CNN better than most, Apparatchiks . It shouldn’t surprise anyone to find Apparatchiks’ meaning linked to the former Soviet Union and other Communist states as our major market media have been pushing their leftist agenda for [...]
Trouble Right Here in River City — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Somebody must have put in another pool table, look at all the trouble we’re in now. Heck, it’s gotten so’s a body can’t offer up a proper prayer or teach school without raisin’ up a ruckus. That Music Man feller’ passing through warned us about having a pool table; should’ve listened to him. Look what’s [...]
The McDonald Decision and the Second Amendment — Behreandt
by Dennis Behreandt The Supreme Court has issued its ruling in the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago. The court found, in a 5-4 vote, that local and state authorities could not effectively ban handgun ownership. The ruling prompted Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein to exclaim that she is "extremely dismayed" because as a result of [...]
Celebrating America’s Birthday — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly I'm so glad that the Tea Parties are bringing a new appreciation of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution to grassroots America. Federal law now requires public schools to teach something about the Constitution on Constitution Day, September 17, but there is no such law about the Declaration [...]
No Budget This Year — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There used to be a picture in my bathroom directly in front of the ‘throne’; a chance to ponder old sayings while taking care of important business. “Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life”, was on the first line as I recall followed by twenty or thirty classic one liners. The picture vanished some time back; [...]
Since Day One — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, President Obama announced he will meet with BP executives today for the first time regarding the Deep Water Horizon well disaster in the Gulf. A couple of thoughts came to mind; the first had to do with the purpose of the meeting after Obama’s fireside from the night before and the second had to do with waiting so long to meet [...]
Moribund Free Market? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There’s an article on Bloomberg by Lorraine Woellert and John Gittelsohn which explains how taxpayers are on the hook to Fannie and Freddie for somewhere between $160 Billion and $ 1 Trillion. I was unfamiliar with one word they used; not being the sharpest pencil in the box I get to use the dictionary and thesaurus more [...]
Double Standards and Church Buildings — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, An AP story out of Bridgeport Connecticut: U.S. District Court Judge Janet Hall ruled “two public high schools can’t hold their graduations inside a church because that would be an unconstitutional endorsement of religion .” If each student had to “cross” him/herself as they picked up a diploma on stage from the [...]
Federal Courts Manifest Bias Against Religion
By Phyllis Schlafly It was so long ago that the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed prayer in public schools that most Americans have forgotten what a public uproar that caused back in 1962. Since then, the lower federal courts have taken their cue and manifested an even more virulent anti-religion bias, plus a bias to uphold the public schools' [...]
Anti-Federalists Vindicated
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Sheldon Richman If the Antifederalists were still on the scene today, they might be saying — as they would have been saying right along — “Told you so.” The latest occasion is this week’s 7-2 Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Comstock et al., upholding a federal statute that [...]
Beware of Cheap Imitations — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I read where Obama, while delivering the commencement speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point pressed for a New World Order . “Well, isn’t that special”, forgive my use of an old Saturday Night Live prompting. “While saying he was “clear-eyed about the shortfalls” of the international system that has led [...]
Why I Should Run for Senator — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The title alone should bother serious political followers; T. F. Stern, a candidate for the U.S. Senate? My qualifications should make it clear; never served in any elected office, none. I don’t have a law degree and don’t plan on acquiring one. I’m opinionated with little room for concession; not exactly a team player as [...]
Attacks On Arizona Are Attacks On America
By: Christopher G. Adamo Among the insightful guardrails established in the Constitution for the preservation of the United States, the requirement that the nation’s chief executive be a natural born citizen exhibited a keen understanding of the human condition. Though no single stipulation could provide absolute protection from the [...]
Prepare for More Problems with Judges
by Phyllis Schlafly Supreme Court Needs At Least One Veteran For as long as we can remember, the U.S. Supreme Court has included at least one military veteran. Recent examples include Republican-appointed Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who died in 2005, and Justice John Paul Stevens, who announced his retirement on April 9th. The [...]
Cap & Trade Requires House Licensing — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The writings of Ray Bradbury came to mind as I looked over Cap & Trade legislation requirements, requirements which look more like dark science fiction than something you’d expect in America. Bradbury foresaw a bleak future, a society forced to live in fireproof dwellings that took the place of antiquated homes structured [...]
What’s Wrong With Popular Vote Movement?
by Phyllis Schlafly Reading the news about other countries conducting their elections is usually a depressing experience. Most other countries have many political parties, which means that no party or candidate ever gets a majority, and the wrangling continues as they try to create a coalition government. Then the counting of ballots goes on [...]
Posturing for Next Supreme Court Seat — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, You can learn much from what isn’t said, the ability read between the lines. There’s a Fox News article speculating who should fill Justice Stevens’ seat on the Supreme Court now that he’s given notice of his retirement. “In my view at least, Justice Roberts has tried to move the court very far to the right, much [...]
Guests of Vlad the Impaler — Caruba
By Alan Caruba Lately I have been reading and hearing a lot of psychoanalysis of Barack Hussein Obama and it reflects a growing need by pundits and regular folks to figure him out. The reason is obvious. We are all now the guests of Vlad the Impaler, version 2.0. As several million unemployed already know, he doesn’t give a [...]
Net Neutrality and the FCC — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Going through the box of sharpest pencils you won’t find my name listed; this I admit up front when entering a discussion on who should control the internet along with the nuts and bolts of what constitutes a utility, public speech and the 1st Amendment. The talk shows were abuzz with today’s news out of Washington, FCC [...]
Civil Contracts No Longer Matter — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The Obama administration is set to make additional changes to the free market system on Friday according to sources who wish to remain anonymous since the official announcement has not been made as yet according to an AP story by Alan Zibel . Obama wants banks to reduce the amount of debt owed by individuals about to have their [...]
Today’s Congress a Mockery of Representative Government — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I’m not sure words can describe the anger and disappointment which have afflicted my soul this afternoon, having watched and listened to the Congress of the United States of America roll full steam ahead towards its vote to approve the Senate version of Health Reform legislation. Mind you, it’s Sunday afternoon, a time to be [...]
When Seconds Count… — T.F. Stern
By T. F. Stern, I read an unsigned editorial in the Toledo Blade, an online publication, expressing concern about citizens confronting armed criminals rather than leaving it to the police who are trained and have the responsibility for such matters. (A tip of the cap to Say Uncle for finding this obscure news tip.) I’ll discount [...]
Presidents and Precedents and the Path to National Suicide
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Lawrence W. Reed America’s 44th president has embarked on a massive expansion of the federal establishment that, if accomplished, will dwarf all previous welfare states in its spending and debt. Americans will largely depend on politicians and their underlings for a significant portion of their heavily [...]
Resolved: Remove the Marxist Majority — Henry Lamb
By Henry Lamb The nation’s most important New Year’s resolution is to remove the Marxist majority in Washington. The most important question facing the nation is how to do it. There can be little doubt that the national sentiment opposes the Marxist policies being imposed by the current majority in Washington. Poll after poll, after [...]
The Federalist No. 42
by James Madison The Powers Conferred by the Constitution Further Considered To the People of the State of New York: THE second class of powers, lodged in the general government, consists of those which regulate the intercourse with foreign nations, to wit: to make treaties; to send and receive ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls; [...]
The Federalist No. 41
by James Madison General View of the Powers Conferred by The Constitution To the People of the State of New York: THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power which it vests in the government, including the restraints imposed on the States. The [...]
The Federalist No. 40
by James Madison On the Powers of the Convention to Form a Mixed Government Examined and Sustained To the People of the State of New York: THE second point to be examined is, whether the convention were authorized to frame and propose this mixed Constitution. The powers of the convention ought, in strictness, to be determined by an inspection [...]
The Federalist No. 39
by James Madison Conformity of the Plan to Republican Principles To the People of the State of New York: THE last paper having concluded the observations which were meant to introduce a candid survey of the plan of government reported by the convention, we now proceed to the execution of that part of our undertaking. The first question that [...]
Advance the Teaparty Tradition Without a Chaotic Con Con: Revive Our Constitution!
"Revive Our Constitution"! "Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction ." So proclaimed President Thomas Jefferson, and so must we proclaim today! And yet America today is a nation in which judicial supremacy has all too often replaced constitutional supremacy because [...]
The Federalist No. 38
by James Madison The Same Subject Continued, and the Incoherence of the Objections to the New Plan Exposed To the People of the State of New York: IT IS not a little remarkable that in every case reported by ancient history, in which government has been established with deliberation and consent, the task of framing it has not been committed to [...]
