Many would dismiss this as foolish for who in America believes this today! And to them I say it maters not what you believe it maters only what your enemies believe; and they do believe that they are obligated by the faith to either convert you are kill you! So the choice is yours!
Category Civil Society
The 10th Amendment
This is mostly a re post from the Tenth Amendment Center.
Most of us know about the 10th Amendment to the constitution but to put it in context as St. George Tucker does in this post shows exactly what the framers intended in the separation of powers between the federal government and the several states. The politicians have clearly over stepped the bounds that were established. It took them a long time but what he have now is clearly something very different than what we had up until only a few decades ago.
EDITOR’S NOTE: St. George Tucker was one of the most influential legal scholars of the early American republic. His View of the Constitution of the United States was the first extended, systematic commentary on the Constitution after it had been ratified by the people of the several states and amended by the Bill of Rights. And his Blackstone’s Commentaries, from which the following excerpt originates, was the major treatise on American law in the early 19th century. Lawyers arguing before the Supreme Court of the United States would frequently cite to Tucker’s Blackstone – more often than any other commentator until 1827.
The twelfth article of the amendments to the constitution of the United States, declares, that the powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. This became the 10th amendment as after two amendments were not approved.
The powers absolutely prohibited to the states by the constitution, are, shortly, contained in article 1. section 10. viz.
1. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance or confederation.
2. Nor grant letters of marque and reprisal.
3. Nor coin money.
4. Nor emit bills of credit.
5. Nor make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.
6. Nor pass any bill of attainder.
7. Nor any expost facto law.
8. Nor any law impairing the obligation of contracts.
9. Nor grant any title of nobility. . . . Concerning all which, we shall make some few observations hereafter.
All other powers of government whatsoever, except these, and such as fall properly under the first or third heads above-mentioned, consistent with the fundamental laws, nature, and principle of a democratic state, are therefore reserved to the state governments.
From this view of the powers delegated to the federal government, it will clearly appear, that those exclusively granted to it have no relation to the domestic economy of the state. The right of property, with all it’s train of incidents, except in the case of authors, and inventors, seems to have been left exclusively to the state regulations; and the rights of persons appear to be no further subject to the control of the federal government, than may be necessary to support the dignity and faith of the nation in it’s federal or foreign engagements, and obligations; or it’s existence and unity as the depositary and administrator of the political councils and measures of the united republics. . . . Crimes and misdemeanors, if they affect not the existence of the federal government; or those objects to which it’s jurisdiction expressly extends, however heinous in a moral light, are not cognizable by the federal courts; unless committed within certain fixed and determinate territorial limits, to which the exclusive legislative power granted to congress, expressly extends. Their punishment, in all other cases, exclusively, belongs to the state jurisprudence.
The federal government then, appears to be the organ through which the united republics communicate with foreign nations, and with each other. Their submission to it’s operation is voluntary: it’s councils, it’s engagements, it’s authority are theirs, modified, and united. It’s sovereignty is an emanation from theirs, not a flame by which they have been consumed, nor a vortex in which they are swallowed up. Each is still a perfect state, still sovereign, still independent, and still capable, should the occasion require, to resume the exercise of it’s functions, as such, in the most unlimited extent.
The Rot Within, Part II: Inflation Is Not “Growth”
As a degreed economist I 100% agree with this; and I will add that Milton Friedman a Noble laureate economist proved definitely that is was the Federal Reserve that created the Great Depression (not the market crass of ’29) and by extension it was the same ineptness of the FED that created the housing bubble and crash of ’08 not the banks. The FED is now in the process of creating a sovereign debt bubble that is close to bursting and it will be worse than ’08. Keynesian economics is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme!
Fast and Furious Is Alive and Well and Is Being Used to Expand Drug and Gun Trafficking
Its hard to comprehend how many nails have been driven into the coffin that now holds the US Constitution! This is a sad time for freedom as it is almost gone!
A TALE OF TWO CIRCUITS: OBAMACARE IS EITHER ON LIFE SUPPORT OR IN ROBUST HEALTH
An excellent analysis of the law but one must step back and look at the core issue as Turley and Robers both seems to agree on — have we created a 4th branch of government with no checks and balances on it — that is the very definition of tyranny! In my opinion that trumps any other cause no matter what the merits of it, for if this process continues much longer we will lose the Republic just as the Romans did.
Below is my column today in the Chicago Tribune on the rivaling rulings in the D.C. Circuit and the Fourth Circuit over a critical provision under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). As an academic interesting in statutory interpretation and legisprudence, the opinions are fascinating and capture two different but well-argued views of the role of both courts and agencies in dealing with legislative language.
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BEWARE! A WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING
This is right on! and why he must be impeached as soon as possible before he completes his “fundamental transformation” of America!
OBAMA IS A FACIST and a Marxist (and racist)
By T. L. Jenkins ~
If you’ve followed Barrack Hussein Obama’s Presidential career and have educated yourself on his early life and politics—or are even interested enough to be reading this, you’ve most likely already come to the conclusion we have a communist in the White House.
The argument against the President being a communist could be; one cannot cast guilt—or another acquire—guilt by association.The mere fact he grew up surrounded by communists, has surrounded himself with communists, socialists and anarchists in his Presidency (www.keepmnfree.com/CommInWH/2012commInWHpivenMay16.html) (of particular interest in this site : “PLEASE READ MORE ON OBAMA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTS SINCE HIS BIRTH.” which I do hope you thoroughly browse if you don’t know Obama’s affiliations) does not necessarily mean he’s a communist.
One can “evolve” and change one’s mind—and after all :…
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Does anyone except Iran support Hamas?
Friends of Hamas
Hamas has proved itself to be unusually isolated in its current war on Israel. The powers-that-be in Egypt, for example, have not lifted a finger to come to the assistance of Hamas. This all by itself proves the superiority of the Sissi regime to that of Morsi, but if one has a clue about the nature of the Muslim Brotherhood, from which both Morsi and Hamas emerged, this not exactly a shock. Yet Saudi Arabia has left Hamas to its own devices, as has the UAE. Stepping forward to lend a hand to Hamas are Qatar and Turkey.
The isolation of Hamas is a striking development, but most striking are the emergence of Hamas’s good friends: Barack Obama and John Kerry.
Going back to his Cairo speech in the early days of the Obama administration, Obama has stood out as an old fan of the Muslim Brotherhood. See here (Marc Ambinder), here (FOX News), and here (American Thinker).
The Muslim Brotherhood is of course a progenitor of Islamic radicalism (see, e.g., Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower) Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. In this sense (among others) it should come as no surprise that Obama is a sap for Hamas.
We have found Obama reliably to take the side of the enemies of the United States while stabbing our friends in the back. This is a phenomenon that took shape in the first days of the Obama administration.
Now Obama and Kerry are working to shut down Israel before its forces attain their goals in the current hostilities. Obama’s public consternation over civilian casualties is a pure reflection of Hamas tactics and propaganda. Putting to one side the difficulty of identifying true civilian casualties, Obama blames Israel for whatever civilian casualties result form Hamas’s placement of men, tunnels and materiel among civilians in homes, hospitals and mosques. Hamas also does its considerable best to keep the civilians in harm’s way.
Obama mentions none of this, and we now know (as a result of Kerry’s open mic incident on FOX News Sunday earlier this week) that John Kerry blames Israel for civilian deaths in Gaza as well. He attributes them to the Israelis’ lack of precision in their current operation.
The Israelis may get credit in heaven for their extraordinary efforts to avoid civilian casualties — the warning leaflets, the knocks on the roof, the cell phone calls and messages, and so one — but they get none from the Obama administration.
Kerry is now in the area seeking to engineer a ceasefire. His presence is obviously unwanted by Israel. On this point we can take the word of former Israel Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren. Kerry is undermining Israel and encouraging Hamas.
Yesterday the FAA prohibited commercial flights to Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv, thus handing Hamas a great victory and upping the stakes for Israel. The AP notes, Kerry himself flew into Ben Gurion today after the FAA action. Some European airlines are following suit. El Al continues to fly into Ben Gurion. Last night, as Jeff Dunetz observes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to Kerry to rescind the ban.
Noah Pollak points to the peculiar timing of the FAA action:
Long-range rocket fire from Gaza has been dramatically curtailed in recent days by the IDF’s ground operation, and was heaviest at the beginning of the war – some two weeks ago. Despite Hamas and Islamic Jihad barrages of M75 and M302 rockets fired at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on July 8th, 9th, and 10th, no travel warning was issued.
Jeff also notes that Michael Bloomberg is flying into Ben Gurion in a show of support for Israel. Bloomberg has posted this statement:
This evening I will be flying on El Al to Tel Aviv to show solidarity with the Israeli people and to demonstrate that it is safe to fly in and out of Israel. Ben Gurion is the best protected airport in the world and El Al flights have been regularly flying in and out of it safely. The flight restrictions are a mistake that hands Hamas an undeserved victory and should be lifted immediately. I strongly urge the FAA to reverse course and permit US airlines to fly to Israel.
Bloomberg understands that the United States has handed Hamas a great victory in the current war. The Daily Mail includes Bloomberg’s tweets to this effect in its story on developments yesterday.
John Podhoretz weighs the consequences of Hamas’s success in his New York Post column this morning. Observing the Obama administration’s efforts to engineer a ceasefire while Israel has yet to attain its objectives in the conflict, Caroline Glick notes with considerable understatement:
[T]he fact that the US has chosen at this juncture in the operation – with Israel enjoying unprecedented support from the most important Sunni states in the region – to side with Hamas and its state sponsors in their demand for an immediate cease-fire speaks volumes about the transformation of US foreign policy under Obama’s leadership.
The efforts of Obama and Kerry on behalf of Hamas — their efforts to stop Israel short of its goals in the current conflict — come as no surprise, but they shouldn’t pass without comment either.
Illegal Immigration And Gangs: Someday Our Cities Will Burn Because We Didn’t Protect Our Borders
As I have previously posted this is not immigration this is an invasion!
Children from Central America Invade the United States. Really?
My sentiments exactly!
The Rot Within, Part I: Our Ponzi Economy
I can tell you with 100% certainty that this is 100% correct, I’m a degreed economist and engineer. I have studied this problem in detail since the late ’90s and I would say its even more dire than implied here — but we’ll see what the next part shows!
