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Archive for the ‘SCOTUS’ Category
Heritage Foundation:
Should Terrorist Detainees
Have More Rights
Than Americans?
Friday , June 27, 2008
By Charles D. Stimson and Andrew M. Grossman
Last week the Supreme Court ruled that terrorist detainees held by the U.S. military in Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in federal court.
Commentators called the ruling a major blow to the Bush administration and looked to the [...]
Marriage bill exposes judicial activism
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 6/30/2008 var addthis_pub = ‘onenewsnow’;
Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker says he’s hoping to further re-ignite the national debate over same-sex “marriage” by introducing a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Senator Wicker’s bill is the companion to House legislation [...]
Let’s look at what Obama is really saying to attract all of his supporters. With the price of almost everything being effected by high fuel prices may someone will explain to me just what his attraction is to anyone.
Obama’s list of NOs, things he speaks out against and derides John McCain for supporting:
Do not drill [...]
From a comment to Michelle Malkin Post:
Out of 16 major American institutions, Congress ranks dead last in the eyes of the American people according to Gallup. Even HMOs are more revered. If Carrot Top and Joey Buttafuoco were elected to Congress, it would improve the legislative branch’s reputation.
The reasons for Congress’s craptacular standing are too [...]
The Imitators: Part III
Thomas Sowell
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Some of the people who are most adamant against outsourcing economic activity from the United States to other countries often seem to think we should outsource our foreign policy to “world opinion” or act only in conjunction “with our NATO allies.”
Like so many things that are said when [...]
Court rules in favor of Second Amendment gun right
Associated Press - 6/26/2008
The Supreme Court says Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history. The court’s 5-4 ruling strikes down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun [...]
Via KNBC:
A Los Angeles judge dismissed a taxpayer lawsuit Wednesday that sought to repeal a long-standing directive prohibiting Los Angeles police officers from asking arrestees about their immigration status.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu sided with the city and the American Civil Liberties Union, which claimed there were no triable issues raised in [...]
Dobson:
Obama ‘Distorting’ Bible,
Pushing ‘Fruitcake Interpretation’ of
Constitution
by FOXNews.com
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Evangelical leader James Dobson took issue Tuesday with a recent speech by Barack Obama, saying the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has distorted the Bible and pushed a “fruitcake interpretation” of the Constitution.
The criticism, aired Tuesday on Dobson’s Focus on the Family radio program, comes shortly [...]
The Imitators
Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
If anyone suggested that Tiger Woods should try to be more like other golfers, people would question the sanity of whoever made that suggestion.
Why should Tiger Woods try to be more like Phil Mickelson? If Tiger turned around and tried to golf left-handed, like Mickelson, he probably wouldn’t be as [...]
