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• Animal Rights Activists Petition Judge to Send Toddler-Killing Dog to Sanctuary Instead of Euthanizing It

  May 9, 2012 at 2:37am

  Why does the article choose the term “euthanize” rather than “put down?“ The former lends legitimacy to the ”progressive” eugenists who advocated putting down disabled human beings, whether born or in the womb.

• Romney Slammed by Conservatives for Pushing Federal Health Mandate in 2009 Op-Ed

  March 4, 2012 at 10:28pm

  In reply to sullinsea.

  I suppose, though, this is a sword that cuts both ways – in order to undermine Romney’s Tenth Amendment argument the Obama campaign has to admit that Obamacare also violates an individual right.

• Romney Slammed by Conservatives for Pushing Federal Health Mandate in 2009 Op-Ed

  March 4, 2012 at 9:43pm

  In reply to sullinsea.

  If the individual mandate violates an individual right, either in and of itself or because it mandates conduct that conflicts with one’s moral conscience in violation of the First Amendment, how is it not prohibited for a state to do it under the Fourteenth Amendment? Governor Romney’s Tenth Amendment argument only works if the individual mandate violates no individual right under the First Amendment or otherwise.

  Apparently Romneycare impinges on the First Amendment rights of Catholic hospitals even more directly than the HHS regulations, mandating use of emergency contraception in response to rape while making no distinction between contraception (mmorally permissible) and abortifacients (impermissible). Governor Romney appears to have been willing to impose his personal moral views on the hospitals.

  http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/problem-romneycare

• Romney Slammed by Conservatives for Pushing Federal Health Mandate in 2009 Op-Ed

  March 4, 2012 at 9:09pm

  As I think about my last post, it occurs to me perhaps Governor Romney does not view the mandate as violating any individual rights, but only exceeding the delegated powers of the federal government. That would be even more troubling.

• Romney Slammed by Conservatives for Pushing Federal Health Mandate in 2009 Op-Ed

  March 4, 2012 at 8:43pm

  Seems to me that the “Tenth Amendmet Guy” is falling into the same trap as the old “states’ rights” southern racists. The Tenth Amendment has to be read in the modified historical context of the Fourteenth.

  I believe this is a trap being set for Romney in the general election. The notion that a state can legitimately enact Obamacare or a variation thereof does not pass close scrutiny. This will undermine Romney’s ability to carry out the single most important mission of the next administration – the complete and total repeal of Obamacare followed by legitimate market-based health care reform.

• Romney Slammed by Conservatives for Pushing Federal Health Mandate in 2009 Op-Ed

  March 4, 2012 at 8:30pm

  It seems to me that Romney may be the “Tenth Amendment guy” who completely forgot the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment delegates to the federal government authority to enforce those unalienable God-given rights of U.S. citizens incorporated into it through its due process clause. Thus far the SCOTUS has held that all of the rights articulated in the Bill of Rights are incorporated other than those acknowledged in the Third and Seventh Amendments. Originally, it was assumed the people would keep the states in line with their own constitutions and delegating enforcement authority to the federal government was too scary. Immediately following the Civil War it became obvious this wasn’t the case when a racial majority refused to acknowledge the unalienable God-given rights of a racial minority. The people passed the Fourteenth Amendment to address the problem of rogue democracy in the southern states, figuring state control of the federal government through Congress would provide an adequate check and balance.

  If a federal mandate violates the Constitution, how are the individual victims of that violation not also victims when a state engages in the same conduct, and how does the Fourteenth Amendment not render a state mandate unconstitutional? Same with the First Amendment freedom of conscience. How can a state dictate conduct contrary to a long held faith-based moral rule if the federal government cannot?

• ‘Thomas Paine vs George Washington’: Santorum and Beck Part Ways on Libertarianism

  February 24, 2012 at 10:54am

  Some libertarians confuse means with ends. God endowed us with certain unalienable rights as a means to an end. The end is to choose to follow His will. Our rights are not ends in and of themselves. God didn’t give them to us so we could snort cocaine from the navel of a ******.

  It is impossible to pursue happiness unless you understand it as being synonymous with virtue. Unless we are a religious, noral and virtuous people our Constitution will not work and our rights will be lost to the vicissitudes of a government suited to those whoare not virtuous.

• Read Glenn Beck’s Christmas Message

  December 24, 2011 at 4:20am

  But evn with the misspelled Latin word, I appreciate the sentiment. Merry Christmas to all.

  It is about the fact of plenty – ultimately not material plenty, but spiritual plenty.

• Read Glenn Beck’s Christmas Message

  December 24, 2011 at 4:18am

  Sorry to be a high school Latin student, but is it not “Laus Deo”? Laos is a country.

• Minnesota Land Right Fight: Commissioner Calls Constitution ‘Old Document’

  December 22, 2011 at 10:11am

  The stubborn arrogance of the political class chafing under the limitations of a still legally-binding written Constitution. Because ours is the oldest extant republic and constitution in the world, they arrogate to themselves the illegitimate authority to disregard it because the unalienable private property rights of their individual constituents impede their (hopefully) well-intentioned efforts to create a utopia on earth, an Agenda 21. Bereft of all honor, they refuse to honor their oaths. What scoundrels.