Archive for the ‘Constitution’ Category
“A little rebellion”
By Les Dunaway
Our elected representatives have, lately (and way past time) been criticized for writing laws that both did not and could not address the problem for which they were written and, at the same time, created yet more problems.
I am altogether confident that part of the problem is that of our representatives being less competent at fulfilling the duties of their office than at convincing their constituents to elect, and re-elect, them. However, I am even more confident that those failings are not new, as any student, however casual, of history or the Bible knows.
I believe that the major cause of these calamities, and calamities they are, causing endless suffering in both the physical and financial senses are rooted in our government venturing into areas for which it is unsuited and was never intended.
What IS the agenda?
By: Les Dunaway
The folks screaming for more gun laws after the Connecticut tragedy don’t seem to be aware of Chicago.
Chicago has been a lab experiment in gun rights and in the significance of the Second Amendment since the days of Al Capone.
Ignorant does not equal stupid
By: Les Dunaway
For the past year or more, I’ve been struggling with the fact that many people believe that social programs can be expanded without limit because taxes can be raised, without limit, to support them. The question I keep asking myself and everyone who’ll talk about it is “How can we help these people to understand that simple arithmetic demonstrates the fallacy of their belief?”
Obamacare ruling – Roberts said more than’s been reported
By: Les Dunaway
There was great wailing and gnashing of teeth over the Supreme Court’s decision “upholding” Obamacare { Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act} in
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ET AL
v
SEBELIUS, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, ET AL.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, in the majority opinion, what can, arguably, be called the most convoluted decision in the history of the Supreme Court when he said that Congress couldn’t, within the Constitution, do what they did but it was OK, because they could have done it another way.
There were and are those who call for Justice Robert’s tarring and feathering for the decision.
However, there’s more to the decision than the mandate vs tax issue.
Michael Opitz, President of the Madison Forum, has actually read the decision, all 193 pages. And, he’s found that important Constitutional principles are strongly upheld in it.
