‘the moral liberal’ Archives
An American Stasi? The Surveillance State
The Freeman, Wendy McElroy The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reported on July 25 that “there are 72 fusion centers around the nation, analyzing and disseminating data and information of all kinds. That is one for every state and others for large urban cities.” What is a fusion center? The answer depends on your perspective. If you work [...]
Subjects of Texas — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, This past January members of the Greater Houston Locksmith Association (GHLA) learned of “changes in the works” with regard to continuing education requirements mandated by the DPS/PSB. Since my locksmith license is dependent upon fulfilling the requirements imposed by the DPS/PSB it would seem logical for the requirements [...]
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Islamic Law Helps Illegal Couple Stay In U.S.
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In an unbelievable ruling, a federal appellate court has blocked the deportation of a Palestinian couple because the U.S. government failed to consider Muslim marriage customs under Sharia law. The decision reverses both a federal judge and the Justice Department’s [...]
Dennis Behreandt Joins The Moral Liberal
By Steve Farrell The Moral Liberal is pleased to announce that Dennis Behreandt has accepted an invitation to join the staff of The Moral Liberal as a contributing editor. Mr Behreandt began his career in forestry, working in the northwoods of Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. As an undergraduate, he earned a degree in history with a [...]
Florida Court Ruling Continues to Drive Christians to the Closet to Pray
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Pensacola, FL – Following Judge M. Casey Rodgers’ ruling late Friday evening, which denied the request for intervention by Christian Educators Association International (CEAI), Liberty Counsel will file a direct lawsuit against the Santa Rosa School District. When the ACLU originally filed its suit against [...]
The Debates In the Federal Convention — James Madison’s Notes
Liberty Letters, May 14 & 25, 1787, James Madison Monday May 14th 1787 was the day fixed for the meeting of the deputies in Convention for revising the federal system of Government. On that day a small number only had assembled. Seven States were not convened till, Friday 25 of May, when the following members 2 appeared to wit: see Note A. [...]
No One Can Explain to Me What’s In the Bill! — NYC Mayor Bloomberg
The Moral Liberal, Wall Street Journal, John Fund In a key scene in Frank Capra's 1939 film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," appointed senator (and unwitting pawn in a corruption scheme) Jefferson Smith, played by Jimmy Stewart, suggests to a colleague that perhaps it would be a good idea to read bills before voting on them. "The bills?" [...]
Mother Nature Has Her Say — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Beyond the old margarine commercial's warning that "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature," we're now learning that it's also dangerous to fool with her. She doesn't take kindly to puny old mankind's absurd attempts to manage the climate through laws and treaties. A case in [...]
Is There No Stopping This Liberal Madness? — Chris Adamo
By Christopher G. Adamo Last week, with comparatively little fanfare, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave away a hundred billion dollars at the bogus “Climate Summit” in Copenhagen. The sum is nearly unfathomable. It is more than four times greater than the total expended during the 1960s to put a man on the moon. (more...)
FIRE Files Amicus Brief in 'McCauley v. University of the Virgin Islands'
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org On December 22, FIRE filed an amicus curiae brief in the case of McCauley v. University of the Virgin Islands. FIRE's brief asked the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to clarify its landmark decision in DeJohn v. Temple University, 537 F.3d 301 (3rd Cir. 2008), and reverse a ruling by a federal [...]
What Dickens Scrooge Should Teach Us — Farrell
The Moral Liberal with Steve Farrell A cynical conservative magazine I used to subscribe to did the most irritating thing come every Christmas. They would go out of their way to destroy – no, annihilate – my family's and perhaps your family's favorite Christmas story, Charles Dickens' classic work, "A Christmas Carol." When Dickens' [...]
University of Minnesota Backs Down From Ideological Screening
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org MINNEAPOLIS, December 23, 2009—In response to sustained pressure from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities has backed away from its plans to enforce a political litmus test for future teachers. The plans from its College of Education and Human Development [...]
Nobody Here But Us Knuckle Dragging Luddites — Alden
Constitutionally Yours, Diane Alden “On the Blog Over America” @ Facebook, The Moral Liberal's Senior Editor, Diane Alden, responds to There'll be nowhere to run from the new world government www.telegraph.co.uk. Global' thinking won't necessarily solve the world's problems, says Janet Daley In an excellent article found in the December [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 85 — Alexander Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton Concluding Remarks To the People of the State of New York: ACCORDING to the formal division of the subject of these papers, announced in my first number, there would appear still to remain for discussion two points: "the analogy of the proposed government to your own State constitution," and "the additional security which [...]
All Abuzz About Buzzwords — Steve Farrell
The Moral Liberal with Steve Farrell A senior Senator a few weeks back complained that Tea Party Conservatives were apt to use a particular buzz word ... "socialism." He was angry because his re-electability ratings were dangerously low and, apparently, the buzzword gang, not his voting record, was to blame. (more...)
The Federalist Papers No. 84 — Alexander Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton Certain General and Miscellaneous Objections to the Constitution Considered and Answered To the People of the State of New York: IN THE course of the foregoing review of the Constitution, I have taken notice of, and endeavored to answer most of the objections which have appeared against it. There, however, remain a few [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 83 — Alexander Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Judiciary Continued in Relation to Trial by Jury To the People of the State of New York: THE objection to the plan of the convention, which has met with most success in this State, and perhaps in several of the other States, is that relative to the want of a constitutional provision for the trial by jury in civil [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 82 — Alexander Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Judiciary Continued To the People of the State of New York: THE erection of a new government, whatever care or wisdom may distinguish the work, cannot fail to originate questions of intricacy and nicety; and these may, in a particular manner, be expected to flow from the establishment of a constitution founded upon the [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 81 — Alexander Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Judiciary Continued, and the Distribution of the Judicial Authority To the People of the State of New York: LET US now return to the partition of the judiciary authority between different courts, and their relations to each other. "The judicial power of the United States is" (by the plan of the convention) "to be [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 80 — Alexander Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Powers of the Judiciary To the People of the State of New York: TO JUDGE with accuracy of the proper extent of the federal judicature, it will be necessary to consider, in the first place, what are its proper objects. It seems scarcely to admit of controversy, that the judicary authority of the Union ought to extend [...]
2010's Top Anxieties — Caruba
by Alan Caruba The National Anxiety Center Lists Top Ten Fears Founded in 1990, The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about “scare campaigns” designed to influence public opinion and policy, has periodically issued a list of the top anxieties Americans will experience in the coming year. “The list,” says founder [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 79 — Alexander Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Judiciary Continued To the People of the State of New York: NEXT to permanency in office, nothing can contribute more to the independence of the judges than a fixed provision for their support. The remark made in relation to the President is equally applicable here. In the general course of human nature, a power over a [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 78 — Alexander Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Judiciary Department To the People of the State of New York: WE PROCEED now to an examination of the judiciary department of the proposed government. In unfolding the defects of the existing Confederation, the utility and necessity of a federal judicature have been clearly pointed out. It is the less necessary to [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 77 — Alexander Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Appointing Power Continued and Other Powers of the Executive Considered To the People of the State of New York: IT HAS been mentioned as one of the advantages to be expected from the co-operation of the Senate, in the business of appointments, that it would contribute to the stability of the administration. The consent [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 76 — Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Appointing Power of the Executive To the People of the State of New York: THE President is "to nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States whose appointments are not [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 75 — Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Treaty-Making Power of the Executive To the People of the State of New York: THE President is to have power, "by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the senators present concur." Though this provision has been assailed, on different grounds, with no small degree of [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 74 — Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Command of the Military and Naval Forces, and the Pardoning Power of the Executive To the People of the State of New York: THE President of the United States is to be "commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States when called into the actual service of the United [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 73 — Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Provision For The Support of the Executive, and the Veto Power To the People of the State of New York: THE third ingredient towards constituting the vigor of the executive authority, is an adequate provision for its support. It is evident that, without proper attention to this article, the separation of the executive [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 72 — Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Same Subject Continued, and Re-Eligibility of the Executive Considered To the People of the State of New York: THE administration of government, in its largest sense, comprehends all the operations of the body politic, whether legislative, executive, or judiciary; but in its most usual, and perhaps its most precise [...]
