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June 30, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
Get Rid Of The Local Police
- By Warner Todd Huston
This week the Supreme Court issued a ruling at the end of it’s sessions for the season that just reiterates that the police in the US are good for little else but investigating crime that has already happened.
The police are not there to help or protect or serve. They are not there to prevent crime. They are not there to stop a thing. The overused phrases “crime prevention” and “law enforcement” are ridiculous misnomers.
Don’t misconstrue this Op Ed as this is no lament. The fact that the police are not there to prevent crime is the way it should be. For prevention assumes foreknowledge and we all know that foreknowledge is problematic at best and oppressive “thought police” action at worst…….
Important Legislation Alert
June 29, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Representative Ron Lewis (R-KY) introduced HR 947 to amend the IRS code to a non-refundable tax credit for people who buy a residential storage device to store firearms.
Pete Sessions of Texas introduced the Preserving Innovation in Telecom Act (HR 2726) to prohibit municipal governments from competing with private telecom companies serving those areas while allowing governments to compete in areas not served by telecom companies.
The Henry J. Hyde United Nations Reform Act (HR 2745), calling for the withholding of U.S. funds if the UN doesn’t change its ways, passed 221-184. The House also passed the Science, the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2006 (HR 2862) 418-7.
The House also approved a constitutional amendment prohibiting flag burning 286-130.
(Thanks the Federalist Patriot)
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June 29, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
Our Rights Proceed From Leninists
- By Rudy Takala
In a recent Supreme Court decision, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote, “If the peasants sow the fields poorly, they should be helped-and this particularly applies to the poor peasants-by means of collective cultivation of the large estates. There is no other way of helping the poor peasants.” Therefore, “The landed estates must be confiscated immediately .”
Actually, that was Vladimir Lenin writing in an issue of the communist publication Pravda on June 2, 1917. I’ve compiled a small list of quotes for use in this article, but at times it can be hard to remember who used which ones. It doesn’t help that Lenin and Justice Stevens - the oldest member on the court - are roughly the same age. Rest assured that while quotes may be at times confused, no one’s beliefs will be misrepresented.
What the Supreme Court ruled on is as pertinent to America today as it was to Russia in 1917: the distribution of land. Connecticut statutes express a legislative determination that the taking of land as part of an economic development project is a “public use” and in the “public interest.” The point of debate was the Constitutionality of a Connecticut city’s confiscation of land to that end………
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June 28, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
Karl Rove Should Apologize. He Went Way to Easy on Them
- By Justin Darr
After years of attacks from the Left on the War on Terror, Karl Rove has finally said it like it is. America’s Liberals have never approached the War on Terror with the seriousness it deserves. Oblivious to the obvious irony of Illinois Senator Dick Durbin’s coerced and disingenuous apology for comparing the actions of American troops at Guantanamo Bay to those of the Nazis coming within the same week as Rove’s comments, Democrats in Congress rushed to the aid of their ideological brethren attacking Rove and demanding either his resignation or a similarly disingenuous apology to that of Durbin.
This is more than the usual game of Washington tit for tat politics. While Karl Rove was only intending to criticize Moveon.org and other radical Leftist groups, he hit far to close to the truth for the comfort of the Liberals on the Hill, who above all else do not want the American people to know what they really see as the signifigance of 9/11 in American history. This is why the Liberals rolled out their venerable and well used “outrage machine” in response to Rove’s comments. If the voters knew what the real opinions of the Democrats are, the Democrats could look forward to being the minority party for the next 10 years. And for this Karl Rove should have criticized them ………….
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June 27, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
Tyranny In The Blue Zone (These Judges Were Approved By Liberals)
- By R.A. Hawkins
Has anybody noticed that we haven’t had a single judge appointed to the Supreme Court since the Republican revolution in ‘94? Not a single judge has made it through without the approval of what is now the minority (and for a darn good reason) in the Senate and Congress. One of the people responsible for the ethical cave-ins to the left-wingers is the left-wing favorite McCain. I was slightly amused at the Washington Posts view that McCain and Hillary would be unstoppable if they ran together in 2008. I am about as interested in their opinion regarding that, as I am the leftist approval of any judge anywhere. It has about as much validity as the left-wing choice of Tim McVeigh as being representative of Christians.
But I started to point out what kind of judges the liberals have ‘allowed to be’ appointed. Here is a glowing example of the kind of things they tend to do. In the City of New London, Connecticut the city formed a non-profit corporation so they could raze a few blocks and raise a few hackles. They want to put up a series of office buildings so they can harvest more taxes. In order to accomplish this feat they will have to throw a bunch of people out of their houses. Some of them aren’t willing to leave either. Here is how the Supreme Court voted: …………
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June 26, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments
European Politics, Far More Racist Than America’s
- By Warner Todd Huston
Recently I was scanning a web message board where people from many nations come to post about their favorite political subjects and wrangle with like minded souls or friendly apostates over national and international policy. Something I saw there really caught my eye. It was an exchange over whose nation was more racist. Was it the USA or was it any of the various Western European nations?
An exchange there went something like this:
bigenglish: “Well, obviously the USA is more racist because you fellows have the Ku Klux Klan running around ruling the South.”
USPatriot: “What? The KKK is a nonentity over here and has been for decades. Heck, we don’t even have any Klan members in government yet you guys have whole parties that are based on racist sentiment like the BNP.”
This exchange really gave me pause to think. The American poster was exactly right, of course. Certainly the USA has a history from just prior to the Civil War up until the 1960’s where outright, self avowed racists have held high public office. Of course, the Ku Klux Klan had many of its members similarly holding office in the “bad old” days here in the USA between 1870 and the late 1920s or so.
But those days are long over. When Congress broke the back of the KKK in the 1920’s and drove it’s members out of high public office and back into the back woods encampments they came out of, it signaled the beginning of the end for mixing politics and racists in the USA. And by the time the Republicans helped lead the nation to pass the 1964 Civil Rights bill, it was becoming obvious that racism in politics was on it’s last leg…….
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June 25, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
Communist Judges Destroy Property Rights In The Name Of Community
- By Frederick Meekins
Despite their vast wisdom, one of the errors the Founding Fathers allowed to creep into the Constitution was the principle of eminent domain. According to this concept, government is allowed to step in and snatch your property if it can justify doing so in the public interest.
Often this form of despotism is invoked for the completion of projects claimed to be in the public interest such as the expansion of highways or the renovation of properties the owners have allowed to deteriorate. However, the Dishonorable Court has ruled the town of New London, Connecticut is allowed to seize and destroy a number of homes in the name of community betterment to placate a rapacious developer in league with a pharmaceutical company…..
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June 24, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
Moral Bankruptcy Of Islamist Sympathizers
- By Frederick Meekins
Concern has been expressed regarding Microsoft’s willingness to censor blogs originating in China.
While the news is disturbing to anyone disposed to innate liberties, the policy is not all that different than the one employed here in the United States though in less a aggressive form.
Towards the end of 2004 when they released their blogging interface, I briefly signed up for one of the Microsoft sites. Not caring for the overall look of the site, I did not keep it very long.
However, even more unattractive than the sites aesthetic limitations were its linguistic parameters that did not permit words such as “Nazi” and even “pornography” or “slut” if memory serves me correctly. Whether this policy has changed since then, I do not know.
Who is Microsft to determine the propriety of these non-profane terms in a nation that prides itself on freedom of expression? Are his untold billions no longer enough to satisfy Bill Gates and now he must micromanage what is said on the Internet?
Often the rise of the Internet is heralded as a technological development that will unshackle the individual from the oppression of being told what to think and what ideas are fit for public exchange. However, in those regimes where freedom does not exist, this technology can be used to maintain the control of the elite or, in nation’s where the people have a bit for latitude in how they are permitted to live their lives, allow for a more subtle form of social manipulation by fostering a culture of intellectual boredom and inoffensive tedium.
Copyright 2005 by Frederick Meekins