A lot of talk goes on about the founders and what they saw our nation developing at it's birth. We constantly look for ways to show how the founders would have handled a modern issue based on the Constitution, the formal early acts of governement, and things they said and wrote during their lives. One issue, the issue of gay marriage and civil unions isn't really covered in the Constitution. And it really wasn't an issue at all in colonial America. Where as it surely existed, writing abo...
Presidential candidate and ex-NYC mayor, Rudy Giuliani has been running his campaign on 2 themes. Both of which are pretty much false. The 1st is his "9/11" experience. Giuliani's ads love to show him walking the streets with his team after the twin towers were struck. It looks good. There's only one problem. The only reason they are "out on the streets" is because the center and headquarters that was designed to house them and give them a base to manage such an emergency had been blown up...
Congressman Rogers, a republican, has charged Jack Murtha with violating house rules concerning a measure Murtha tried to put into recent legislation to save the National Drug Intelligence Center, a facility that "fights the war on drugs" and is located in Johnstown, Pa. Johnstown is in Murtha's district. If the allegations pan out. It will be up to Speaker Pelosi to live up to her words regarding "cleaning up" the house. OF course, the pundits have already damned both Pelosi and Murtha,...
It's easy to defend the things we like. It's easy to defend the people we like. It's easy to conceive that the things and people we like and want for ourselves should be our "right." But rights aren't about things we like. Rights are about things we don't like. Defending free speech is about defending your enemies right to speak. It's about speech and things that fall under the 1st ammendment that we despise. When the Supreme Court upheld Larry flynt's rights, they weren't endorsing Hustl...
After the Vietnam war, our country made a deliberate decision to move away from the military draft. At the time, one argument was made, and apparantly bought by our nation, that the drafting system had unfairly skewed the military population to only include those without enough money or political connections to avoid service. Of course, it also had to do with the fact that so many of our boys had been killed or permanently mamed physically, psychologically or both by a conflict that was high...
One of the big "problems" the right has with Hillary Clinton is her conduct in the White House during Bill's tenure as Commander in Chief. Every 1st lady has had their "pet projects" while their husband boldy lead the free world, but all of the previous 1st lady projects have been the type a local community or church would via a "Women's Guild" or the "Ladies Auxiluary" or equally inane organization. The 1st lady is usually expected to read to school children, make people "aware" of illiterac...
A lot has been said over the past few weeks over President Bush's handling of the Scooter Libby case. Amongst the rhetoric was an exchange between the Clinton camp and the White House where charges of "being above the law" were met with new definitions of "chutzbah" by the respective foes. And we were all certainly entertained. But President Bush's actions have seemed to do far worse damage than anything that involved Mark Rich. As seemingly corrupt as that move was, and make no mista...
Some people just don't understand what the constitution is about. Especially what the "Bill of Rights" and the other ammendments are about. They are never about taking away the rights of citizens. They are about either expanding those rights which "shall not be infringed upon" by the government or limiting power of government. Ammendments of the constitution are not swords to be used against people with the force of the Federal government. That is what bills, laws and statutes are about....