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Recent content by mike49
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Why are we encouraging democracy in the Middle East?
Yes, but the main purpose of this is to prevent future attacks. Changing them may prevent attacks from groups within those countries. Thats the official line. However, it really is based on a fantasy more than a reality. We were attacked not because we support dictators, but because we support... -
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South Dakota congress bans Abortion accept when mother's life is endangered
Justice Breyer is part of the problem. In fact, he is a problem within a problem. What is "change"? In a democratic system where does change come from? To have the Supreme Court make this change is without sense. Who are they to decide what, when, and how? For them to make these changes, what... -
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Why are we encouraging democracy in the Middle East?
It is good to promote democracy in the middle east. In the short term there is a chance that "Hamas" type things will occur. When you have a situation like Egypt, the dictatorship runs against the Muslim Brotherhood. Someone has to win, neither good really for the U.S.. It may be best to go at... -
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Founding fathers and religion
I have never said that the founding fathers wanted a "christian state", what I have been saying is the "establishment clause" has a different meaning now than it did when it was written. Chief Justice Rehnquist provides a very good account of this in a written opinion, WALLACE v. JAFFREE, 472... -
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Is amending the Constitution really difficult?
The difficulty factor is not the problem. It is not difficult at all, any more difficult than electing a President. If the public finds reason to amend, then we could amend it next election very easily. The reason we have not amended it often is because there has not been a reason to do it or... -
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Founding fathers and religion
The speech you are talking about does not state that abortion did not exist. It in fact states the opposite. And, I did not mean that I get to determine my rights and you do not. My point was that the Supreme Court decides what rights all of us have. And, what rights we do not have. I should... -
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Founding fathers and religion
jfuh, Right Wing site or not, it is what Scalia said. Abortion is not an issue for the Court, or at least it was not prior to Roe v Wade. It was a State issue. If a State allowed Abortion the Court could not shoot that law down and make it illegal. It should not have created this right. As... -
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Did the founding fathers intend _____________?
United States v Darby "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the [p124] States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. There is... -
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US Tactics On Terrorism: Have We Gone Too Far?
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US Tactics On Terrorism: Have We Gone Too Far?
robin, Your from the U.K. and screaming at America? Your country is right there with us. Why in the world would the U.K., when it controlled Iraq install the Sunni's in power when the Shia were the majority? Talk about root problems! Didn't the U.K. use poison gas on Iraqi's, was it Churchill... -
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Founding fathers and religion
jallman, There is sense in your last post. You see the court as the vehicle for change, that it is up to them to re-interpret the "meaning" of the original document instead of the text. I reject that thinking. I would rather the court stick with the original meanings and then have the society... -
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Founding fathers and religion
Here is an article that where the Scalia quote is explained: Justice Scalia: "The Court has liberated itself from the Constitution" -
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Founding fathers and religion
Whereupon, Resolved, That the United States in Congress assembled, highly approve the pious and laudable undertaking of Mr. Aitken, as subservient to the interest of religion as well as an instance of the progress of arts in this country, and being satisfied from the above report, of his care... -
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Founding fathers and religion
jallman, Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of The Redeemer of mankind. It's impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian... This is a religious... -
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G W Bush re-elected:(((Election Law must be changed! SEE HOW...
The bulk of those jobs are not low level. The bulk of those jobs are high-level. In all some 6000 jobs must be filled, if you include the low-level. We are talking about the heads of Executive Departments, their staff...their staff. This is where policy is made and sent upstairs for signature...