Justice Scalia and Consitutional Originalism

By Jenny Erikson
I’ve grown up with the law.  Literally.  My parents met in law school, and my mom was pregnant with me when she graduated.  I spent the first 6 months of my life nestled in her arms as she studied for the bar exam (although now that I have my own darling little hooligans, [...]

Protecting Our Citizens Is Legal (Politicians Feel Free to Read On)

By Brittney Linville
We hear stories every day of the violence on our Southern border from the drug cartels. Many of us hear these stories and we want to scream; and we wonder why the United States hasn’t put our soldiers on the border to protect our citizens.
We know the threat that these cartels pose. We [...]

“…with possible liberty and different justice for all.”

By Dr. Brian Russell

Our Pledge of Allegiance says “one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”  You’ve probably heard that there are some disgruntled people out there who want to remove the “under God” part, but you may not be aware that there are others who have a problem with the whole ”one nation” thing, and [...]

Empathy Revisited

A friend recently shared with me this blog post at The New York Times, entitled “Empathy and the Law”. Considering that this is a topic that I find insatiably interesting, I read with the appropriate voracious interest. In it, Stanley Fish writes:
“An Obama judge will not ask, ‘Does the ruling I’m about to make fit [...]

If a gay man slaps me, it’s a misdemeanor, if I slap him back…

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Federal Hate Crimes Bill or Pedophile Protection Act?
–by Angela Rockwood

I was watching this clip that someone sent to me the other day, and I just had to do a double take.
The Federal Hate Crimes legislation, S. 909, is cited as the “Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act.” Why? For sympathy points? [...]

Rep. Todd Akin (MO): Sotomayor Represents Judicial Activism

By Rep. Todd Akin (M0)
America’s legal tradition is the most principled, reliable, and open of any society in history. The corner stone of this tradition is the U.S. Constitution, which William Gladstone, four-time British Prime Minister, called “the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.” By its nature, it is an enduring document. Yet, its reliability will soon be compromised by the placement of a new Supreme Court Justice.
Judge Sotomayor has downplayed her remarks that courts of appeal are “where policy is made.”. . .

WARNING: Content may be objectionable

by Fran Eaton
Suppose you were to enter a website address from your home computer (versus a public computer) and you were met with a sign like this:
Content Warning:

Some readers of this blog have contacted Google because they believe this blog’s content is objectionable. In general, Google does not review nor do we endorse the content of this or any blog. For more information about our content politics, please visit the Blogger Terms of Service.

Then two options to click upon: “I understand and I want to continue” or “I do not wish to continue.”

What would you think? You’d think this is something you wouldn’t want to see, right? Google-owned Blogger has placed this sign before a Massachusetts-based website that raises concerns about promoting homosexual rights, called Mass Resistance.
For the most part, Google-owned Blogger’s content standards found HERE are pretty loose.
Blogger is a free service for communication, self-expression and freedom of speech. We believe Blogger increases the availability of information, encourages healthy debate, and makes possible new connections between people.
We respect our users’ ownership of and responsibility for the content they choose to share. It is our belief that censoring this content is contrary to a service that bases itself on freedom of expression.

The Tea Parties are coming, the Tea Parties are coming!

By Theosebes
The Tea Parties are coming, the Tea Parties are coming! For a second showing, the Tea Parties are coming to a neighborhood corner near you on the Fourth of July, 2009. If the first event was missed, then participation is highly suggested. So come one, come all and bring your red, white and blue tea cups to share with others, in the ever growing frustration that has taken most Americans by storm.

Is the storm brewing as a result of our twenty first century Tea Tax or is there a greater angst, a deeper discontent than just the enormous deficit that will be handed down to our great, great-grandchildren? I suggest that as with the colonist of the 1760’s, the taxation without representation was only a part of a greater injustice that was imprisoning the patriots who gave so much for us, their great, great, great-grandchildren.

The United Nations’ Threat Against Parental Rights

Included in the language of the treaty is what is known as the “best interest of the child principle” which in everyday life would grant the government the ability to legally invalidate any decision made by a parent for a child if a government worker disagrees with this decision.

Psychopolitics with Dr. Brian Russell

By Dr. Brian Russell

It struck me this week how utterly disillusioned Henry Ford would surely be if he were alive to see this. I mean, he founded the Ford Motor Company over 100 years ago, and after all of the consolidation in the U.S. auto industry in the past century, his company is the only one of the remaining “big three” that’s solvent (not doing particularly well, but still in business, without taxpayer dollars). Henry Ford (and his heirs and shareholders) won.

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