Conservative Politics, Religion, Culture, and Anything Else
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It is no secret that America has become an overly-litigious society. People have brought forward and won many stupid lawsuits that should never even see the light of day. Thankfully, one frivolous lawsuit was thrown out yesterday in a federal court in California.
A federal judge in California has dismissed a complaint filed by a San [...]
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The Supreme Court issued a stay on the Chrysler bankruptcy ruling yesterday afternoon, shortly before a court of appeals imposed deadline would have made the deal final. The Chrysler bankruptcy, engineered by the Obama administration, would have engineered a sale of Chrysler to Italian automaker Fiat, and paid off the unions at the expense of [...]
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In 2007, an Army Captain was dismissed from the US military for violating the Army’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy regarding gays in the military. That captain, James Pietrangelo II, and 11 other members of the service brought a lawsuit because they don’t believe the decades-old policy is constitutionally sound. Subsequently, their cases were thrown out by the federal [...]
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I’m not going to lose sleep tonight because Justice David Souter is retiring at the end of the next session of the Supreme Court. I’m sure his last magnanimous acts for posterity will simply blend in and be as meek as most of his acts over the last 18 years he’s been on the court.
He’s never a swing vote, just [...]
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Connecticut State Senators Andrew McDonald and Michael Lawlor (Democrats) have proposed legislation that would strip Catholic clergy of control over their budgets and place it in the hands of the laity. The Church has denounced the move and the Catholic League has called for the two libs to be expelled from the Senate. People routinely [...]
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The D.C. Voting Rights Bill is a perfect example of why Democrats should never be taken seriously when they accuse other people of violating the Constitution. Article One, Section 2 of the Constitution clearly states:
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States [...]
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Well-known atheist activist Michael Newdow is suing Chief Justice John Roberts over the phrase “so help me God”, to be used at Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration. The Chief Justice was served with the suit at his primary residence, and reacted gracefully. One has to wonder about the legal implications of suing a sitting justice of [...]
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Two years ago on these pages, I followed the remarkable story here in Massachusetts of young Haleigh Poutre. A victim of abuse, she ended up on a feeding tube and breathing machine. Doctors diagnosed her as being in a persistent vegetative state, and unable to recover. The state wanted to bring murder charges against her [...]
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The Connecticut State Supreme Court has ruled in a 4-3 decision that Gay Marriages are now legal in the state. Connecticut becomes the third state to allow Gay marriage, after Massachusetts and California.
If one glances at the current landscape, not a single U.S. State Legislative Body or single ballot initiative in the country has granted [...]
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Over the past year, many sharia court decisions in the UK have been backed by the force of law. The legal justification is an Act of Parliament which permits courts to enforce arbitration decisions. On the surface, this justification is nothing extraordinary. Many legal systems, including our own, look favorably upon and [...]
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The Supreme Court has obviously been a little bipolar lately… who am I kidding? Justice Kennedy wants to be the powerful/swing justice on the court as he voted today with the Four Good Justices to uphold the Second Amendment.
It was a Scalia v. Stevens battle, with Scalia happily on the winning side.
Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a lucid and [...]
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The Supreme Court is getting out of control and the libs on the Court are certainly not making many friends lately. What’s next I wonder?
In the wake of pronouncing that al Qaeda has more rights than Nazis did, and with 42 states having passed anti-Kelo laws, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 that the death penalty is off-limits for [...]
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And the Constitution gets its day on the toilet paper roll! The Supreme Court was about as off-base and dangerous today as as they were in Dred Scott. POWs held at Gitmo will, for the first time in our history, be allowed to have access to civilian US courts during wartime.
These are five Supreme Court Justices that [...]
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In a blatant example of judicial activism, the California Supreme Court today voted 4-3 to overturn the will of the people in order to impose gay marriage on the Golden State.
If McCain nor Congressional Republicans won’t jazz up the conservative base, this should! Marriage issues, cultural issues, judicial activism, court appointments, etc. are all at [...]
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The Roberts Court ruled today that Indiana’s Voter ID law is constitutional in a 6-3 decision by amply justifying that IDs serve “the valid interest in protecting ‘the integrity and reliability of the electoral process,’” according to the majority.
I’ll let you guess which three were in the minority…
Give up?
Stephen “International Law” Breyer, Ruth “Biddy” Ginsburg, [...]
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The Supreme Court voted 6-3 today to strike down President Bush’s adherence to a 1963 International Treaty where aliens caught committing a crime must be aware that they are entitled to legal counsel/advice when tried in American courts. In today’s case, Medellin v. Texas (2008), the defendant argued that he was not made aware of this detail after his arrest (even though he [...]
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I stumbled across this article about Graham Calvert, a compulsive gambler from the UK who took his bookie to court, blaming him for the two million pounds he lost, declining health, and damaged marriage. What struck me was that the article did not even suggest that the gambler himself might actually be responsible for [...]
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The BBC recently interviewed Justice Antonin Scalia. The highlights were just great to hear from an American Justice, with sentiments that make me proud to support Constitutional Originalism.
Scalia scoffed at the “living document” interpretation of the Constitution, as well as the notion that the Constitution doesn’t allow for a “smack… in the face” during a ticking-time-bomb interrogation [...]
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This abortion story from Texas is merely a narrower example of the faulty logic underlying our nation’s laws against murder. In most states, murder is illegal except when the victim is located in his or her mother’s womb. In Texas, the exception to murder laws no longer depends merely on location (the womb), but on [...]
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The Second Amendment is a topic the Supreme Court usually doesn’t touch, but that is about to change. Due to the D.C. Circuit’s decision to overturn our capital city’s ineffective ban on handguns, the Supremes have decided to give themselves a literacy test. The text of the Second Amendment is as follows: “A [...]
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The United States does not have a monopoly on out-of-control judges. Take Spain for example. A Spanish judge recently ordered the Catholic Church to cancel a Valencia man’s baptism certificate. The Curt Jester rightly questions the court’s jurisdiction and suggests that the man seek out “John the Debaptizer” instead. Heh.
In all seriousness though, I wonder [...]
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60 Minutes aired the first interview of Justice Thomas on Sunday and my interest in him was piqued. When I heard that he had a ninety-minute interview on Rush (before all the “phony soldiers” nonsense) and then an exclusive interview with Sean Hannity, I was excited. I heard the 60 Minutes interview and the Hannity interview. [...]
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Embattled Attorney General and long-time Bush friend Alberto Gonzales has tendered his resignation this morning amid endless investigation and controversy. He will stay on until September 17. Solicitor General Paul Clement will serve as his replacement until a new one can be found. Alberto Gonzales dug his own grave on this one. Every member of the [...]
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Rudy Giuliani plans to announce his “Judicial Advisory Committee” later this week in an attempt to alleviate conservatives rightly concerned about his views on abortion and his thus far pathetic defense of those views. The panel will be chaired by Ted Olson and will include strict constructionist superstar Miguel Estrada. This is an [...]
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One of the Roberts Court’s latest 5-4 decisions ends racial discrimination against children in local areas that force them to go to different schools based on the child’s race in order to promote “diversity.” While this doesn’t close the book on using race as a basis for school enrollment on the college level, as Justice [...]
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Dog bit man at the Supreme Court today when the Court actually applied the First Amendment, holding that restrictions preventing a pro-life group from running issue ads prior to an election are unconstitutional, even if the ad in question references a candidate. The ruling was obviously 5-4, with the five justices who have [...]
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is confused. I don’t mean confused in the way most liberals are, though she is. What I’m talking about is Ruth Biddy’s confusion over her role in our government. Perhaps it’s her age. Perhaps it’s her arrogance. Whatever the reason, Ginsburg seems to think she is a [...]
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When the Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas that states could no longer punish sodomy (based on the so-called “right to privacy” written in the “emanations and penumbras” of the Constitution), many said that this would lead to a slippery slope to legalize bigamy, incest, prostitution, etc., can all be said to be a right [...]
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