Tuesday, February 1, 2011

MONEY & POLITICS

>> THE NEW "SUPERPACS" (OCT., 2010)


>> OUTSIDE GROUPS AND POLITICAL ADS (OCT. 2010)

Saturday, December 18, 2010

THE DUST UP OVER TAX CUTS-FALL 2010

>> DEMOCRATS NOT HAPPY WITH OBAMA'S DEALMAKING WITH REPUBLICANS


>> HOUSE DEMS REVOLT AGAINST OBAMA



>> OBAMA ANNOUNCES COMPROMISE ON TAXES


>> TAXING THE RICH (60 MIN.)

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

CULTURE WARS

>> BELIEVERS V. ATHEISTS, THE WAR OF THE BILLBOARDS



>> DONT ASK, DONT TELL (OVERVIEW OF THE POLICY)

Monday, November 15, 2010

2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

>> PALIN FLIRTING WITH 2012 RUN


>> PALIN PRIME TIME: REALITY SHOW OR CAMPAIGN BONANZA?

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Friday, October 8, 2010

DEMOS KRATEIN

>> VIOLENCE IN MEXICO'S SMALL TOWNS FOX NEWS, FEB 2011)



>> (NOV 2010) MISREPORTING ON OBAMA'S TRIP TO ASIA




>> (OCT. 2010) CALIFORNIA'S POT BALLOT MEASURE

Saturday, September 18, 2010

THE CONSTITUTION

>> IDAHO RENEWS THE PRINCIPLE OF NULLIFICATION



>> "WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION IS SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE?", CHRISTINE ODONNELL (DEC. 20, 2010)


>> CHRISTINE ODONNELL SLIP ON THE FIRST ADMENDMENT (OCT. 2010)


>> CONSTITUTIONALITY OF HEALTH CARE MANDATE (CBS NEWS)

>> PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH


>> MANDATORY INSURANCE UNCONSTITUTIONAL (WSJ)

>> ILLEGAL HEALTH REFORM (WASH. POST)

>> Yesterday we celebrated Constitution Day across the country, so the subject has been on my mind (schools are required by law to celebrate it). Now as everyone knows, the U.S. congress recently enacted major health care reform (all Americans are required to purchase healthcare, etc.). During the debate over health care, Nancy Pelosi was asked by a reporter where congress gets its constitutional authority to enact something as massive as health care, she screeched “are you serious!, are you serious!”. She then turned to another reporter to change the subject. Latter, a Pelosi spokesperson responded that asking the speaker of the House where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandated that individual Americans buy health insurance as not a "serious question." “You can put this on the record,” said the spokesperson. “That is not a serious question.

Now, I normally don’t get riled up about political issues in an attempt to stay unbias, but this one has really sent me over the top. I don’t care what side of the health care debate your on (both sides have at least some legitimate arguments), or what side of the political spectrum you reside, but to state, unequivocally, that it doesn’t matter where congress's constitutional authority to exercise a certain power comes from is the most absurd, idiotic thing I have heard in long time. Arguably, we have moved far away from our founding principles and from common sense. See the story at the link below:

PELOSI DISMISSES QUESTION ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS TO ENACT HEALTH CARE REFORM (CSNNEWS)

SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CHAIR (PATRICK LEAHY)CANNOT IDENTIFY THE CONSTITUTIONAL SOURCE OF CONGRESSION POWER TO MANDATE HEALTH INSURANCE