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Spying Upon Ourselves

Monday, January 14th, 2008
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United States Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, is drafting a plan that is supposed to protect America’s cyberspace. The plan, according to The New Yorker (January 14, 2008) is that “the government must have the ability to read all the information crossing the Internet in the United States.” Yes, you read [...]

Judge David Sentelle and life saving medicines

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
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“I may have gotten a thin copy, but I had a hard time finding it in my copy of the Constitution.” Judge David Sentelle questioning the “right” for terminally ill patients to get life saving medicines. (March 1, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. For more, see Reason.)
It seems like Judge Sentelle is [...]

McCain-Feingold limits McCain’s Campaign

Thursday, July 12th, 2007
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One might call it ironic that the McCain campaign is faltering due to lack of funds. Ironic because he has helped to silence his own speech rights while limiting everyone else’s. Instead of being free to donate and disclose to a candidate who shares your views, you are greatly limited. McCain suffers [...]

Sen. Kennedy on ’settled’ Constitutional law

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Sen. Kennedy on ’settled’ law
Senator Kennedy’s assertion (Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2005) that Commerce Clause jurisprudence is settled is laughable for many reasons.
1. First and foremost, Commerce Clause jurisprudence was “settled” in favor of freedom and liberty until the Supreme Court of the 1930s gutted the doctrine in order to make [...]

Five Disgraceful Supreme Court Justices on Kelo

Sunday, June 26th, 2005
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Sunday, June 26, 2005 Five Disgraceful ‘Justices’ on the US Supreme Court in Kelo vs New London (125 S. Ct. 2655 (2005)) With the Supreme Court eviscerating the freedoms protected in the Constitution this week with its abandonment of the Founders’ intent in writing the Commerce Clause and Fifth Amendment, every protection becomes that much [...]

Free Speech - McCain Feingold Unconstitutionality

Friday, April 15th, 2005
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April 15, 2005 McCain Feingold Unconstitutionality
The Internet was exempted from the McCain-Feingold regulations in a 4-2 vote by the FEC in 2002, but U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly overturned the decision during the Fall of 2004. Two things that need to be made perfectly clear:
1. Several people have advocated impeaching the Judge. But the problem [...]

Enumerated Powers, not Enumerated Liberties

Monday, November 22nd, 2004
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Monday, November 22, 2004Enumerated powers, not enumerated libertyThe United States was founded on the principle that we are a country of enumerated government powers not of enumerated individual liberty. Anyone in grade school knows the theory. Anyone in the real world knows that the practice has no bearing on the principle. The Founders created a [...]

The Rule of Law or the Rule of Whim?

Monday, November 20th, 2000
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November 20, 2000
The Florida Supreme Court faces a clear choice: Whether to act in place of the Florida Legislature and re-write a statute, thus ignoring the will of the people who voted for the legislators who enacted the legislation, or whether to follow the expressed will of the people by upholding the law as written. [...]