‘The Moral Liberal’ Archives
Obama Administration Aligns With Islamic Bloc’s Interests
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodneough, CNSNews.com The head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has acknowledged that a U.N. religious tolerance resolution heavily promoted by the Obama administration has the same aims as the Islamic bloc’s annual “religious defamation” resolutions, which Western democracies have consistently [...]
Pearl Harbor
American Minute with Bill Federer DECEMBER 7, 1941- a date which will live in infamy- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. Thus spoke President Franklin D. Roosevelt following the attack on Pearl Harbor by over 350 Japanese aircraft. Five American battleships and [...]
Wisconsin Third World Mentality Recall — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Wisconsin voters appear to be headed for yet another round of recall elections; Governor Walker being targeted by the United Wisconsin coalition according to an AP article. The opportunity to alter Wisconsin’s balance of power is in play following last summer’s recall election losses of 2 Republican Senators, considering 4 [...]
Captive Audience — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, A woman’s car was having trouble on a major roadway in Houston, allegedly, so it was reported she pulled off to the side of the road; I’ll get to “allegedly” later on. An officer of the law issued her a ticket for “driving on the shoulder and decided to arrest her”; sounds a little over the top for a [...]
The Fed’s Long Shot
Robert P. Murphy, Mises.org Last week the Fed announced "Operation Twist," in which the central bank will buy $400 billion of longer-dated Treasury securities while selling the same amount of shorter-dated Treasuries. This episode epitomizes everything that is wrong with the modern, statist view of money. The Goofy Name Just the fact that [...]
U.S. Debt Held by Public Tops $10T for 1st Time—Up 59 Percent Under Obama
Liberty Alerts, Terrence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com At the close of business on Aug. 31--for the first time in the history of the country--the publicly held debt of the federal government topped $10 trillion, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury Departmentat 4:00 p.m. yesterday. During Obama's presidency, debt held by the public has [...]
Fast & Furious Hearing Sending Shockwaves towards White House & Eric Holder
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee conducted another hearing this week on Fast and Furious -- the operation spearheaded by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) which knowingly put thousands of guns into criminals’ hands. Tuesday’s hearing exposed the anti-gun [...]
The Mass Amnesia inside News Corporation
By Ellie Velinska We can judge how seriously the folks in the United Kingdom view the media, by the fact that the news business is regulated by the same parliamentary committee that rules over the sports. You’d think the MPs would be busy with the coming London Olympics, but instead they are trying to show the need of stricter regulations [...]
Locke: Liberties and Limits of Civil Magistrates On Religion
Daily Dabble in the Classics, John Locke The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing their own civil interests. Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the [...]
Francis Daniel Pastorius: Protest Against Slavery
American Correspondence, Democratic Thinker In 1688, Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, presents a missive to the English Friends chiding them for their quiet acquiescence to African slavery in the colony. The original is in his own handwriting. Follow our footsteps, men of coming years! Where we have [...]
No Fast Track for ObamaCare
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It rarely happens, but we were hopeful the Supreme Court would fast track the Commonwealth of Virginia's lawsuit challenging ObamaCare. Today, the high court said it would not expedite the matter, leaving it to proceed through the normal appeals court process. We're disappointed, but [...]
Quantitative Uneasiness
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Ivan Pongracic Jr. In their recent paper, “Has the Fed Been a Failure?,” George A. Selgin, William D. Lastrapes, and Lawrence H. White conclude that over nearly 100 years the Federal Reserve’s performance has been mostly awful. Unfortunately, the Fed is currently engaged in a policy that will likely [...]
Membership in FILOA — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I’m in the process of generating a website for Fiercely Independent Locksmiths of America (FILOA). This page along with a secondary button to download a printable application form will show up when somebody clicks on the Membership Button. There will be a Members Only Button, password protected, which will link to technical [...]
Homosexual Activist Serves as Acting Head of HHS Agency for Children and Families
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com, Jane McGrath Conservative groups are expressing concern that David Hansell, an openly homosexual man and former AIDS activist, is currently serving as the acting head – the assistant secretary – of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [...]
Supreme Court Weighs Tax Credits for Donations to Nonprofit Schools in Arizona
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel San Francisco, CA – Liberty Counsel filed an Amicus Brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Kathleen M. Winn. The case involves parents that challenged an Arizona school choice law that provides dollar-for-dollar tax credits to taxpayers who make contributions to [...]
The American Scholar: The Scholar — Democratic Thinker
American Thought Ralph Waldo Emerson addresses the Phi Beta Kappa at Cambridge with an oration that would become known as The American Scholar. “I learned,” said the melancholy Pestalozzi, “that no man in God’s wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.” Help must come from the bosom alone. —The Education—The [...]
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 for [...]
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 and [...]
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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 Board [...]
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 [...]
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. 3 [...]
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?" responds [...]
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' Scrooge [...]
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 [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 71 — Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Duration in Office of the Executive To the People of the State of New York: DURATION in office has been mentioned as the second requisite to the energy of the Executive authority. This has relation to two objects: to the personal firmness of the executive magistrate, in the employment of his constitutional powers; and [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 70 — Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Executive Department Further Considered To the People of the State of New York: THERE is an idea, which is not without its advocates, that a vigorous Executive is inconsistent with the genius of republican government. The enlightened well-wishers to this species of government must at least hope that the supposition is [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 69 — Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Real Character of the Executive To the People of the State of New York: I PROCEED now to trace the real characters of the proposed Executive, as they are marked out in the plan of the convention. This will serve to place in a strong light the unfairness of the representations which have been made in regard to it. [...]
Marketplace Timidity the Fault of Private Sector?
The Moral Liberal with Steve Farrell Economically, these are nervous times. So where does the blame lay: with private investors who lack faith in American ingenuity, toughness, and sticktuitiveness, or at the door of Leviathan? The Heritage Foundation opines: At yesterday’s summit, Obama lamented the lack of job creation: “There’s a lot of [...]
