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Super Committee, Presidential Race, ObamaCare

November 15, 2011

Not-So-Super Committee: The congressional Super Committee is tasked with cutting $1.2 trillion from future deficits over the next decade. They can accomplish this by cutting spending or raising taxes. They have 9 days left to complete their mission before automatic cuts to defense and entitlements go into effect. Thus far, the Super Committee has been [...]

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Indiana Supreme Court Rules AGAINST Fourth Amendment

May 14, 2011

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. – [...]

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Kagan Thinks The Government Can Force Us To Eat Our Vegetables

July 1, 2010

A nutshell summary of the Elena Kagan Supreme Court confirmation hearings – a Senator asks her a question, and Kagan does her boring best to evade answering it. Kagan's not the first nominee to do this, but I'm finding it difficult to even report on this snooze-fest. Here's about the best I can do. The [...]

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Supreme Court Overturns Gun Ban Despite Outlaw Judges

June 29, 2010

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads as follows: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Under that law, the citizens of the United [...]

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Kagan Confirmation Hearings – Day One…zzzzzzz

June 28, 2010

Here's Senator "send your money to me" Al Franken, expressing my exact sentiments about the first day of Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings: I feel ya, Senator Al. I was nodding off too. I do give Kagan credit for listening to the Senators bloviate and politicize the hearings all day long without falling asleep herself. It [...]

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Who Is Elena Kagan ?

May 14, 2010

Elena Kagan is the Solicitor General of the United States, and is President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court. She is the prospective replacement for outgoing Judge John Paul Stevens, who is retiring. Here is a brief bio of Kagan from Wikipedia: Kagan…born April 28,1960…was raised in New York City. After attending Princeton, Oxford, [...]

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President Lies About Supreme Court Ruling

January 29, 2010

During wednesday's State Of The Union address, President Obama made the following statement about the recent Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United v. FEC case: "[it] open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by [...]

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Supreme Court Free Speech Ruling

January 22, 2010

But first…last night at the Q…Cavaliers 93, Lakers 87. Yes !!! That's two wins in a row over the defending NBA champion Lakers, and the Cavs did it without all-star point guard Mo Williams, who is out with a shoulder injury. Lebron rules, throwing down 37 points along with 9 assists. Get well, Mojo. Go [...]

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Another Cross To Bear

October 8, 2009

Our Supreme Court Justices are very learned people. They come from the finest schools and study for years and years to master the law. They work their way up through the legal system, and these "best of the best" reach the pinnacle of their profession in order to decide the most difficult and pressing legal [...]

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Stuart Joins The Senate, And Other Matters

July 17, 2009

Certain things defy explanation. For example, Bill Ayers went from being a domestic terrorist bomber for the Weathermen to being a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Chicago-Illinois. There is no rational explanation for how that happens, for how a radical like Ayers gets in a position to shape impressionable young minds when [...]

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Getting Beyond Race

June 30, 2009

The Senate formally apologized for slavery yesterday, one hundred and forty four years too late, one hundred and forty four years after slavery was abolished. Do we all feel better now ? A bunch of people who had nothing whatsoever to do with slavery have apologized for it. Now we know that America doesn't condone [...]

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Wimps On The Right

May 29, 2009

To all Republicans in Congress who are afraid to oppose Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor because she is a Latina…. Are you kidding me ?!?! Grow a pair. Sotomayor's ethnicity has nothing to do with her qualifications (or lack thereof) for the Supreme Court. Sure, the Democrats will play the race card (as they always [...]

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