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Anchor Babies and Foreign Laws
Foreign laws are made by foreign leaders using foreign methods to meet foreign needs. While there are certainly elements common to all humanity, there are also regional variations based on geography, culture, and other factors that cannot allow a cookie-cutter mentality toward shaping laws. … Foreign law might work for foreign countries, but it often goes against our laws, our traditions, our culture, our Constitution, and our liberty. … Using foreign ideas to influence American court decisions thus bypassing the people’s elected representatives is a subversion of the sovereignty of the people and is (in my mind) close to treason. Continue reading
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What is “historic”?
I’m sick and tired of hearing people blather on and on about how “historic” the health care takeover is. Historic doesn’t mean good. Continue reading
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My Political Philosophy in a Nutshell
Our freedoms are a gift from God. Anyone who unjustly deprives another of liberty is guilty of sinning against that person and against God.
Law and government exist to protect the rights of the individual. Continue reading
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Questions We Should Ask About a Constitutional Convention
There have been some who have said that we need to call a Constitutional Convention… others have wondered if such a convention would choose to disregard our current Constitution and forge a new one, as the first Constitutional Convention.
Updated 3/30/2010 and 4/22/2010. Continue reading
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Some Tidbits from CS Lewis
“And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.” Continue reading
gun control quotes
criminals, tyrants, and patriots all weigh in on gun control. Continue reading
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H.R. 3200 (the healthcare bill) Is Unconstitutional Ex Post Facto Law.
This bill would retroactively nullify any policy made on or after January 1, 2009. Could someone explain to me how this is not an unconstitutional ex post facto law? Continue reading
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Thoughts from my friend Melody
Democracy does not die because some other country comes in and takes over, imposing their resitrictive rule on freedom-loving people. Liberty is surrendered willingly… Continue reading
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