Islam, America, and Religious FreedomEver since the horror of 9-11, Islam has been a highly charged topic. Anything involving the death by immolation and defenestration of three thousand innocent office workers, to say nothing of watching kidnapped journalists getting their heads chopped o... |
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The Would-Be Judge Who Would Not ReadSolicitor General Elena Kagan is spending this week under the Klieg lights of Senate hearings concerning her appointment to the Supreme Court. Thus far, like most modern Supreme nominees, she has artfully avoided saying anything at all while the Senator... |
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Our Upside-Down Constitutionalism The suspect is in the witness box. He takes the oath to tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." The prosecuting attorney hits him with a pointed question: "On the night of the 25th, did you brutally murder your mother in cold blo... |
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Our Army vs Our ConstitutionI do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
- Presidential Oath of Office
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The Welcome Death of BipartisanshipFor a long time now, the idea of "bipartisanship" cooperation between Republicans and Democrats has been something of a Holy Grail in American politics. George W. Bush was elected on a promise to be "a uniter, not a divider" as he had been while Governo... |
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One Equals Two?When I was in a high school algebra class our math teacher taught us a neat trick. He proved, by using the rules of algebra, that 1 = 2. I thought it was the coolest thing. From that simple proof, it was trivial to prove that all numbers were equal. ... |
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White Men Can't JudgeFor anyone who has been watching Judge Sotomayor's confirmation hearings and who watched the hearings twenty years ago for Judge Robert Bork who was nominated by Ronald Reagan in 1987, it's hard to believe that the process for the two is technically the ... |
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The Wrongs of Rights 3: Positive RightsLiberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits ca... |
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The Wrongs of Rights 1: Human Rights"I demand my rights!"
If there's one sentence that encapsulates modern American society, that's it. The most sordid, drug-addled bum knows that he has the right to a lawyer if he's arrested and the right to sue if his "property" or person are moleste... |
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