Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution
National Review "Many Americans are puzzled and angry about the judicial assault on religion, morality, and common sense that has been going on for the past few decades. People wonder, for example, how the First Amendment (which guarantees freedom of religion as well as separation of church and state) could possibly require the expulsion of religion from public life, or outlaw prayers at high-school football games and graduation ceremonies. To answer questions like these, one must understand how federal judges got the power to make such controversial political decisions in the first place, and how the judges used that power to bludgeon the American citizenry into believing that their power was legitimate." Robert Lowry Clinton is professor and chair of Political Science at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Resenting Achievement More than Wealth
Thomas Sowell "Many of our educators, our intelligentsia, and our media — not to mention our politicians — promote an attitude that other people’s achievements are grievances, rather than examples. When black schoolchildren who are working hard in school and succeeding academically are attacked and beaten up by black classmates for “acting white,” why is it surprising that similar hostility is turned against Asian Americans, who are often achieving academically more so than whites?"
It Begins… Race-Hustlers Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton Call for Selig to Pull All-Star Game Out of Arizona
Gibbs Scolds Fox for Airing Brownie's Oil Spill Conspiracy Theory, Will He Bash MSNBC?
Newsbusters- "BROWN:
The media has been ignoring it for two weeks. You don`t think that there were -- look, they could have gotten on helicopters. They probably were on helicopters. We had other reconnaissance images from there. But we only started to see them when it started to approach the Louisiana coast. And, then, oh, my God, look, we got to do something. I just -- I think the media sat back. And I would not be surprised if the White House said, you know, we might be able to, guess what, do what? Use this crisis to our advantage. Let this crisis get really bad, and then we will step in. We will be able to shut down offshore drilling. We will be able to turn to all these alternate fuels. And I think the problem they have right now is, they waited too long."
From New Citizen to Suspect in a Year
WSJ Ms. Thurman paid $5 for four pillows—"a steal," she said. Then her neighbors were gone. She didn't know where they went. The house has sat empty since then, she said. "He was a little weird," she said. "I didn't know he was that damn weird." Other real-estate brokers and a lawyer who worked with Mr. Shahzad described him as soft-spoken, well-dressed and intelligent, but very reserved." If he was poor, how'd he pay for those plane tickets and the bomb implements? Shahzad reserved his seat on the way to the airport and paid in cash.
Not Wanted on Campus: Jews Who Support Israel
Chesler Chronicles "As I’ve noted, what’s going on is so much bigger than Brandeis University and Ambassador Oren. Do the dissenting students and faculty at Brandeis really understand what is going on?
I fear not. Israel’s critics are as merciless and unbalanced in their criticism of Israel — only. Such critics fervently believe that their criticism is all that keeps both Judaism and Israel vital and honest. While holding an endangered Israel’s feet to the fire, these very critics practice compassion and understanding towards the non-Jewish barbarians of the Middle East and Islamic world." via Pajamas Media.
I fear not. Israel’s critics are as merciless and unbalanced in their criticism of Israel — only. Such critics fervently believe that their criticism is all that keeps both Judaism and Israel vital and honest. While holding an endangered Israel’s feet to the fire, these very critics practice compassion and understanding towards the non-Jewish barbarians of the Middle East and Islamic world." via Pajamas Media.
Amnesty would be unfair to those who seek to earn citizenship
American Thinker "There should be no double standard on the issue of immigration in the United States of America, and amnesty to illegal aliens only hardens the slap in the face towards the many Americans who have waited years to gain citizenship. God bless those who have a desire to come to this land of opportunity through a legal process. The audacity that people can take to the streets to advocate for supporting a criminal act is absurd, and those who came here legally should stand against such an assertion. "
Where the Contract with American Failed, the Freshmen 50 Will Succeed
Big Government "We are citizen-candidates united on a platform of six simple and realistic reforms for our government:
"Apply the Law Equally: All laws that apply to all citizens also apply to Congress;
Term Limits: Limit terms in Congress to no more than 12 years in the House and Senate, respectively;
Enforce Congressional Ethics: Yearly tax and expense audits, former Congressmen and their staff cannot be lobbyists, allow the ethics committee to do their job;
Read the Bill: Prior to final vote, the entire bill must be read out loud on the floor of the House; if a representative is not present for the entire reading, he cannot vote ;
Tax Reform: Repeal our current tax code in favor of one that taxes only once, at one rate, and require a 2/3-majority vote for any new tax;
Balance the Budget: Amend the Constitution to require a balanced budget ."
The Promise
Thomas Lifson "Edith attended the "Break the Silence" rally last Sunday in front of the Israel Consulate in Manhattan in the pouring rain where over 2000 Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Sikhs spoke out loud in support of Israel and against the disgraceful treatment by the Obama administration of one of America's greatest allies. Absent were too many of the major Jewish organizations that are too entangled in the Washington political scene to come out and denounce the Obama administration's vindictive policies dictating to Israel not to build homes in its capitol Jerusalem, while at the same time appeasing and bowing to the enemies of America, Israel and the free world."
George Will Skewers Bill Maher
Big Hollywood "The acerbic Maher is used to making outrageous and factually empty statements on his HBO talk-show and getting nothing but an approving nod from his guests and howls of affirmation from his unwashed peanut gallery in return. But when he made this claim: “I could criticize America in general for not attacking this problem [dependency on fossil fuels] in the Seventies. I mean, Brazil got off oil in the last thirty years we certainly could’ve,” he was woefully ill-prepared to be called out on it by the acutely observant Will who pressed him: “Bill, can you just explain to me in what sense Brazil ‘got off oil’?” " Then it gets better...
Supreme Court declines to hear Lesbian couple's suit against Boy Scouts
CSMonitor.com "A lesbian couple and an agnostic couple in San Diego have legal standing to sue the Boy Scouts to force the group to stop using prime city land for camping and other scouting activities. Opponents weigh in on Supreme Court Mojave cross decision Vets win Supreme Court victory in ‘Mojave cross’ case The US Supreme Court on Monday let stand an earlier ruling by the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals, which sided with the two couples. The couples object to Boy Scout policies that exclude boys and adults who are atheists, agnostics, or homosexuals. In refusing to take up the Boy Scouts’ appeal, the high court action returns the case to the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit."
Facing Obamacare: What the States Should Do Now
Heritage "Many of the most high-profile promises—such as extending the life of the Medicare Trust Fund, allowing those who are happy with their health insurance plans to keep them, lowering the cost of health care, and not raising taxes on families with annual incomes below $250,000—will not be fulfilled.[1] Based on the provisions of the new law, many of these promises simply cannot be kept."
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