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Ezra Klein Explains It All

Posted: December 30, 2010 in 111 waivers, 2nd amendment, 4th Amendment, academics, administration, agenda, alexander hamilton, big government, big green, bureaucrat, business, cap and tax, carbon trading, cbo, climaquiddick, climategate, Cloward Pivens, common law, conservatism, conservative, conservatives, constitution, control freaks, declaration of independence, democrat, democratic, democrats, economic liberty, economics, economy, Education Department, elite, elitism, elitist, eminent domain, entitlement, european union, federal healthcare, federal reserve, federalist papers, first amendment, food nazis, gerrymandering, global warming, government, government motors, government spending, gun rights, healthcare reform, imf, immigration, law, left, leftist, libertarian, libertarianism, media research center, Neo-Libertarian, NPR, occupational licensing, philosophy, politics, president obama, progressive supreme court, progressives, republican, republicans, Uncategorized, Zimbabwe School of Economics
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The Constitution cannot be understood because it’s so old?

The canard that the Constitution cannot be understood is a favorite of those who wish to find things that aren’t there and deny things that are. The 1803 Marbury vs. Madison case, in which the Supreme Court set itself up as the arbiter of the Constitution, and the following cases where the Court ignored the letter of the Constitution in order to find new provisions and dismiss existing ones has led directly to this.

The six pages of the constitution are simple enough that a high school student that couldn’t figure it out should not graduate. Is the language a bit archaic? Yes, I’ll grant that, if you’ll grant that the failure of the public schools to teach English. It’s certainly easier to understand than the deliberately obtuse 2500 page bills passed in the dead of night designed to restrict the liberties protected by the Constitution, in order to elevate “pubic servants” to the new aristocracy.

 

What We Believe, Part 4: Natural Law

Posted: November 5, 2010 in afterburner, bill whittle, c..., common law, conservatism, conservative, firewall, law, natural law, political law, positive law, republican, tea party, whittle
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What makes some laws worth obeying, while others demand to be overturned? In Part 4, Bill examines the difference between Natural Law and Political Law.

My Wishlist, Too

Posted: November 5, 2010 in 2010, a time for choosing, america, arguing with idiots, big government, big green, bureaucrat, Civilization, Cloward Pivens, common law, congress, conservatism, conservative, conservatives, constitution, cost of freedom, death panel, debt, deficits, democrat, democratic, democrats, economy, education, Education Department, education reform, election, elite, elitism, elitist, federal healthcare, federalist papers, freedom, global warming, gm, goverment, healthcare, healthcare reform, immigration, libertarian, national
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Reader John Miller’s email to Instapundit in reference:

ROBERT GIBBS: Efforts to repeal ObamaCare won’t get past the Senate.

Yes, you make the Senate vote on ObamaCare again.

You make them vote on a lot of things.

Were I in Boehner’s shoes, I’d be preparing a long list of very short, very simple bills, each covering a single issue with broad public support.

Race-neutral enforcement of civil-rights laws.

Sanctioning ’sanctuary cities’.

Voter ID.

Forcing the DOJ to implement the voter-roll cleanup provisions of HAVA.

And so on. Single-issue bills that can be read by any voter in five minutes.

Run them through the House and, should a few more of these Senators staring 2012 in the face decide they don’t dare oppose the bills, we get to see Obama double-talk his way through vetoing motherhood and apple pie.

What We Believe, Part 4: Natural Law

Posted: October 29, 2010 in afterburner, bill whittle, c..., common law, conservatism, conservative, firewall, law, natural law, political law, positive law, republican, tea party, whittle
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What makes some laws worth obeying, while others demand to be overturned? In Part 4, Bill examines the difference between Natural Law and Political Law.