If you don’t believe me, just listen to Senator Grassley question Elena Kagan yesterday. It seems that the second amendment more or less reflects God’s law. Surprising, in that firearms aren’t prominently featured in the Bible. I cannot imagine anything more tedious than sitting for days listening to a group of Senatorial blowhards pontificate in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘constitution’
God is a member of the NRA
Posted: 30th June 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: civil liberties, constitution, Grassley, guns, religion
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The unitary executive continues to grow
Posted: 1st November 2009 by Brant in politicsTags: Bush, constitution, justice, Obama, torture, unitary executive
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The Constitutional limitations on the Executive branch continue to be ignored, despite President Obama’s promised of change. Gary Wills, writing in the New York Review of Books catalogs the continued damage to the Constitution. The entire essay is worth a read. George W. Bush left the White House unpopular and disgraced. His successor promised change, [...]
Some bad news from the Obama administration
Posted: 20th January 2009 by Brant in politicsTags: civil rights, constitution
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According to Wired, Obama will defend the retroactive telco immunity provisions passed by the last Congress. “The duty of the Justice Department is to defend statutes that have been passed by Congress,” Holder told Sen. Orin Hatch (R-Utah), who asked whether the Obama administration would continue the legal fight to uphold the legislation that the [...]