December 31, 2010
From the Truth-is-Stranger-than-Fiction file… In my last post, I (via Judge Napolitano) mentioned that the government has even “skulked into” our backyards (literally). The backdrop for this particular incident is the Great Depression, and the federal government has imposed artificial restrictions on farm production of wheat — “a problem industry for some years” — via […]
Tags: abuse of Commerce Clause, acreage restrictions, actual meaning of the Commerce Clause, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, Andrew P. Napolitano, commerce clause, commerce regulation, effect on economy, government regulation, Great Depression, Judge Napolitano, medicinal marijuana, private property rights, restrictions on wheat production, Roscoe Filburn, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, U.S. Constitution, Wickard v. Filburn
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December 29, 2010
I hope everyone had an enjoyable Christmas holiday! All too short, I’m sure. Now, back to “business”…. One often hears the terms “natural law” and “due process” used when discussing various (real or perceived) rights and constitutionality of laws. But, to me, at least, it isn’t always clear what people mean by that. (I have […]
Tags: American Dream, Andrew P. Napolitano, Civil Disobedience, constitutional rights, due process, government infringement, Henry David Thoreau, Judge Napolitano, moral law, moral lawgiver, moral relativism, Natural Law, natural lawgiver, natural rights, personal liberties, property rights
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
December 23, 2010
Season’s Greetings!!! I recently came across an amazing talent. She’s got a big voice with a wide range, she’s super-cute, and she’s only 7 years old! Her name is Rhema Marvanne. Here’s a studio session where she sings a Christmas classic. (Can’t believe how long she holds that note towards the end!) Here she is […]
Tags: 7 year old gospel singer, All I Want for Christmas Is You, Christmas, Christmas music, gospel music, O Holy Night, Rhema Marvanne, The Prayer, very talented child singer
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December 20, 2010
Skeptics of religion — and of Christianity in particular — always like to pick apart the Bible, claiming that this or that is inaccurate or could never have happened or has been “proven wrong”, or some such thing. I have yet to hear/read any “contradictions” that don’t have some plausible explanation, particularly when one does […]
Tags: Bethlehem, Bible accuracy, Bible contradictions, Christian Bible, Christian scripture, Christianity, Christmas story, contradictory Gospel accounts, creche, doubting the Bible, Gift of the Magi, Herod, inconsistencies in Scripture, Jerusalem, Jesus in a manger, Jesus in a stable, Luke 2, Magi, Matthew 2, Nativity, Nazareth, no room at the inn, Three Wise Men, wise men from the East
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December 15, 2010
Who Guards the Guardians? In his book The Tyranny of Tolerance: A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault, Judge Robert Dierker reveals and discusses the many ways in which radical liberals in the U.S. courts — judges and attorneys — have eaten away at our constitutional liberties. The […]
Tags: balance of power, checks and balances, Constitution, constitutional rights, Declaration of Independence, FDR, Fifteenth Amendment, fourteenth amendment, Franklin Roosevelt, Judge Robert Dierker, judicial branch, judicial philosopher kings, judiciary controlled by liberals, Justice Stephen Breyer, least dangerous branch, liberal activism, liberal jurists, radical liberals, restrain judiciary power, Sixteenth Amendment, Supreme Court justices, Thirteenth Amendment, tyranny of tolerance, U.S. Supreme Court
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December 11, 2010
Today’s excerpt is from Judge Andrew P. Napolitano’s controversial, no-holds-barred book Lies the Government Told You: In the 1978 case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the Supreme Court held that affirmative action policies in publicly owned college admissions are constitutional, but institutions cannot employ a “quota system” based on race. That […]
Tags: Adarand v Pena, Affirmative Action, concurring opinion, dissenting opinion, Equal Protection Clause, Grutter v Bollinger, helping the disadvantaged, Judge Napolitano, Justice O'Connor, Justice Thomas, level playing field, oppression, racial discrimination, racial inequality, racism, Regents of the University of California v Bakke, reverse discrimination, reverse-racism, Supreme Court
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December 3, 2010
The following is an excerpt from the book The Tyranny of Tolerance: A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault, by Judge Robert H. Dierker Jr.: “Religiously Based Divisiveness” Even Justice Stephen Breyer has recognized the danger of attempting to purge religion from public life. In 2005, voting to […]
Tags: ACLU, Allegheny County, atheism, Christianity, Christmas display, creche, endorsement of religion, establishment clause, First Amendment, Hanukkah display, illiberal liberals, Islam, Judaism, judicial activism, Justice Breyer, Justice O'Connor, Justice Souter, Justice Thomas, liberal jurists, liberalism, Nativity, Pittsburgh Creche, religious displays, religious persecution, Religiously Based Divisiveness, separation of church and state, Ten Commandments, tyranny of tolerance, wall of separation
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