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This story in Vanity Fair absolutely flabbergasted me when it popped up in my RSS feed this morning. If progressives have developed such an aversion to the United States Constitution that they will unashamedly argue that reading it in the House today will cost too much money, they have utterly surrendered the issue entirely. At [...]
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I spent a little time over the weekend with Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision to invalidate Proposition 8. For those of you who haven’t yet heard of the Dread Proposition That Took Us All Back To the Days Of Jim Crow And Tyrannosauruses, let me give you a quick rundown. Prop 8 was a ballot item [...]
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I must admit, I’m baffled by how this administration is using the Justice Department to uphold our Constitution. We have gotten a pretty confusing message in the past few days from what behaviors Eric Holder and President Obama have sanctioned and what they want to prevent. For example, it is quite all right with this [...]
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Rule of law? Whatever on Earth is that? A federal judge in Washington has dismissed the wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by Gerald Walpin, the AmeriCorps inspector general who was fired last year by President Obama. And not just dismissed; if the decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Roberts stands, in the future the White House will [...]
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With such Constitutional brilliance at work in the House of Representatives, how could Obamacare possibly go awry? During an interview Capitol Hill Friday, CNSNews.com asked Rep. Conyers, “The individual mandate in the bill requires individuals to purchase health insurance. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has said that never before in the history of the United [...]
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This is easily the quote of the week. “I don’t need to see my colleagues vote for the Senate bill in the House. We don’t like the Senate bill. Why should we be forced to do that?” said [Representative Lynn] Woolsey, D-Calif. “But what we need to know, before any Senate bill is passed, that [...]
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As promised, I didn’t watch President Obama’s State of the Union address last night but I did read the speech today and spent a bit of my lunch hour seeing what others said about the speech. Without unpacking the whole speech, which would probably take five or six separate posts, I’ll share a couple basic impressions: 1) [...]
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I imagine a few folks are going to get excited about the news that Hawaii has officially designated an Islam Day to celebrate “the rich religious, scientific, cultural and artistic contributions” of Islam. To be perfectly honest, I could care less what Hawaii does. I live in Maryland. If they want to kowtow to Islam, [...]
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