Vice President Joe Biden believes that he is second in line to succeed Obama, pursuant to the 25th Amendment.
Where did you find your law degree Joe, in a Cracker Jack box?
More here from Weasel Zippers
Related Post: Bozo the VP botches line of succession—Michelle Malkin
Ninety years ago today with the ratification of the 19th Amendment, Women were guaranteed the right to vote.
Happy Birthday 19th Amendment (And Thanks to Harry T. Burns Mon) Los Angeles Times
Related Posts: Today in 1920: 19th Amendment Ratified, Giving Women Right to Vote
White House demonstration to mark 19th Amendment—Washington Examiner
Happy 90th Anniversary 19th Amendment—Women Marines Association
Bloggers in Philadelphia must now pony up $300 for a business license to publish their posts, whatever happened to the 1st Amendment?
“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. Its the hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” — Justice Potter Stewart
More here from The Washington Examiner
Neo-Nazi staged a protest in Los Angeles earlier thus year—there is a growing swell of anti-immigrant including anti-Chinese sentiment escalating in both the United States and around the world.
These ignorant Nazi thugs have chosen to ignore that the United States is the land of immigrants and our nation has benefited by the diversities of others and rich cultural heritage that our many ancestors have brought to our nation of opportunity.
Anti-Immigrant sentiment in the United States damages the very fabric of a society to live peaceably amongst their neighbors, creating divisions between persons where none once existed.
On the 16 June, I wrote here that small narrow minded Americans have reopened century year old wounds, resurrecting prejudice, bigotry and hatred of others based on ethnicity.
Anti-Immigrant zealots that are presently targeting anchor babies children of undocumented aliens born in the United States, are either ignorant of the law or have chosen to ignore the 14th Amendment and 112 years of legal precedent as set forth in United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) 169 U.S. 649 These anti-immigrant elected legislator zealots, unconstitutional attempts to strip natural born children of their American citizenship, are violating their oath of office while pandering to their political base.
Related Posts: The Progeny of Citizen Wong by Lisa Davis San Francisco Weekly
New bid to deny citizenship harkens back to the 1920’s Via Sacramento Bee
Anti-Chinese Graffiti not hate? Via Chinese in Vancouver
Camera catches men writing anti-Chinese graffiti Via The Vancouver Sun
Racist graffiti found at second mall in Richmond British Columbia Via CTV News
Voters in Missouri yesterday rejected ObamaCare, supporting a state wide ballot initiative 71.1% to 28.9% aimed at blocking the federal government mandate requiring people to purchase health insurance.
More here by Peter Roff Via U.S. News and World Report
Related: Federal Judge in Virginia Denies DoJ Motion to Dismiss Challenging ObamaCare
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government—lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” –Patrick Henry
California Democrat-Socialist Congressman Pete Stark: “The Federal Government can do most anything in this country…I think that there are very few Constitutional rules that would prevent the federal government from rules that would affect your private life.”
Video here Via W.C. Varones
Related: Judge Andrew Napolitano: Can Congress Write Any Law It Wants?
The Constitution in Exile–Whatever happened to our inalienable rights?
Liberal Loony Progressives that either don’t understand the Electoral College or want to be more like a European Democracy, are once more attempting to eliminate how we have elected President’s the last two centuries.
Both California and Massachusetts Progressives, are working on plans to throw out the Electoral College and to choose a candidate that wins the majority vote.
Why is this dangerous? Why is the MSM ignoring this important story?
Over the last two centuries, there have been Constitutional Amendments have been proposed more than 700 times to abolish the Electoral College, never a one has come close to being adopted.
The Framers of the Constitution did not believe that political contests for President should be declared by majority rule, rejecting pure democracy as a great menace to liberty, James Madison wrote in Federalist No 10 “…that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person can admit of no cure for the mischief of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by the majority of the whole…and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths…”
Our Founding Fathers debated electing the President by a direct popular vote and also by Congressional selection. The idea of a popular vote was summarily rejected because the more populous states such as California today, and their political, economical and ideological persuasions could elect a President with little to no influence of the less populous states and a Congressional appointment of a President was antithetical to the separation of powers—the compromise between the two was the Electoral College.
The Electoral College is as important today as it was two centuries ago. Candidates for President are forced to campaign throughout the entire country instead of only focusing their campaigns on the most populous states such as California, New York, Texas, Florida, Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania while ignoring the least populous states and territories such as Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, Delaware, Guam, Northern Mariana Island and American Samoa.
Our Founding Fathers, “…in their wisdom and appreciation of history gave us representative government enshrined in a Constitutional Republic that has been resilient, enduring and tested. In a moment of acrimonious passion and partisanship, let us not discard, piecemeal, a precious gift that has served us well for over 200 years.”
More here from Canada Free Press
“…In Congressional Government (1885) Woodrow Wilson left no doubt: The U.S. Constitution prevents the government from meeting the country’s needs by enumerating that the government may not infringe…Our electoral system, based on single member districts, empowers individual voters at the expense of the “responsible parties.”
Hence the ruling class’s perpetual agenda has been to diminish the role of the citizenry’s elected representatives, enhancing that of party leaders as well as of groups willing to partner in the governments plans and to craft a “living” Constitution in which restrictions on government give way to “positive rights” meaning charters of government power.
Consider representation. Following Wilson, American Progressives have always wanted to turn the U.S. Congress from the role defined by James Madison’s Federalist No. 10 “refine and enlarge the public’s views” to something like the British Parliament, which ratifies government actions. Although Britain’s Electoral System–like ours, single members elected in historic districts by plurality vote–had made members of Parliament responsive to the Constituents in ancient times, by Wilson’s time the growing importance of parties made MP’s beholden to party leaders. Hence whoever controls the majority party controls both Parliament and Government…”
Full article here by Angelo M. Codevilla, Via The American Spectator
Our Great Leader (choke, choke, cough, cough) Comrade Obama during a speech last month at Hampton University in Virgina said, “And meanwhile, your coming of an age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us all to all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t always rank that high on the truth meter… (translation-Conservative arguments Obama doesn’t approve of) information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than a means of emancipation….”
It isn’t at all surprising that Obama’s pick to replace liberal activist Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, is an activist herself.
Instead of being willing to preserve the Constitution of the United States, U.S. Supreme Ct nominee Elena Kagan argued before the Court that she wishes to join, that its fine if Democrat-Socialist’s in Congress enact legislation to ban books.
Audio here of Elena Kagan arguing before the U.S. Supreme Ct that its fine if the law bans books Via Breitbart TV
Nettie Hunt and her daughter on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court after the landmark 1954 Brown -v- Board of Education of Topeka 347 U.S. 183 decision was handed down reaffirming American values that segregation has no place in the United States.
Ohio was the last state to ratify the 14th Amendment in 2003 but goofy lawmakers in Arizona must think that the Ohio Legislature overreacted when after 135 years they symbolically removed the stain of Segregation?
Small minded Arizona anti-immigrant zealots, have reopened century year old wounds resurrecting prejudice, bigotry and hatred of others based on ethnicity.
On the 13 May I wrote here that while Gov. Jan Brewer and other elected officials may want to wrap themselves up into the American Flag attempting to spin their controversial anti-immigrant law which critics call separatism and racially divisive, one does not have to look very far into Arizona’s behavior to not realize that their racial fears are leading them down a dark path.
Faced with what is morally right or immorally shameful, Arizona’s narrow minded lawmakers have chosen to reaffirm their unconstitutional prejudices in order to debate new legislation that would deny U.S. Citizenship to babies born in the state of Arizona to undocumented aliens.
Related: 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Via The Library of Congress
