Saturday, January 8, 2011
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Justice Scalia: Women Not Constitutionally Protected By The 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause
Yahoo News reports that "Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in a recently published interview that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment does not prohibit discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation."
"Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex," Scalia told California Lawyer. "The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't. Nobody ever thought that that's what it meant. Nobody ever voted for that. If the current society wants to outlaw discrimination by sex, hey we have things called legislatures, and they enact things called laws."
The equal protection clause states: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
The dissent of Justice William Rehnquist in Craig v. Boren (1976) can be read for some background on the seminal case of gender equal protection being read into the Constitution, and the flaws of that decision: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0429_0190_ZD1.html.
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Saudi Arabia Arrests A Bird For Being An Israeli Spy
Yes, you read that correctly. First sharks, now birds. The Jews apparently have total control of the animal kingdom.
The Daily Mail reports that authorities "in Saudi Arabia arrested a suspected Mossad spy when they captured a vulture. The bird, tagged at Tel Aviv University for a science study, flew into Saudi territory, where it was nabbed, according to Haaretz News Service. The bird was wearing a transmitter and leg bracelet as part of a migration research project, but the tags bore the words 'Tel Aviv University' and prompted suspicion. Residents and local reporters told Saudi Arabia's Al-Weeam newspaper that the Israeli bird seemed as though it could be a 'Zionist plot.' News of the bird's arrest went viral and people on Arab-language blogs started insisted Zionist had trained and released the vulture to spy. Last month a politician in Egypt suggested that the deadly shark that killed and maimed multiple tourist may have been sent by Mossad. The animal could have been, the Sinai regional governor claimed, an Israeli agent. 'What is being said about the Mossad throwing the deadly shark in the sea to hit tourism in Egypt is not out of the question. But it needs time to confirm,' Mohamed Abdel Fadil Shousha said at the time."
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Hamas PM Ismail Haniya: The Occupation Has No Future on the Land of Palestine - From The Mediterranean Sea To The Jordan River
To watch the clip for yourself visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2729.htm.
The following is a transcript of the Hamas leader recently promising the complete destruction of Israel at a rally marking the 25th anniversary of Hamas, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV, December 15, 2010:
Let me reassure you, brothers and sisters, that the occupation has no future on the land of Palestine. When I say "the land of Palestine," I am not referring [only] to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem. When I say that the occupation has no future on the land of Palestine, I refer to Palestine from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River, and from Rosh Hanikra to Rafah.
The occupation will not survive on this land. Never!...
We see today that it is the enterprise of resistance in the region that defends the principles of the Islamic nation. In Iraq – which the American enemy thought it could swallow, before moving on to swallow other countries – the noble Iraqi resistance confronted the American occupation. From Gaza, we salute the Iraqi resistance. To this, one should add the resistance in Lebanon, in Palestine, and in Afghanistan.
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"Daily Show" With The Man Behind San Francisco Banning Toys In Happy Meals
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Jon Stewart On The GOP Chairman Debate
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Cato's Roger Pilon WSJ Op-Ed: "Congress Rediscovers The Constitution"
To read this interesting and informative article visit http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703384504576055632235572362.html?mod=googlenews_wsj. Tweet
Pelosi Lies: "Deficit Reduction Has Been High Priority For Us"
Using the word "lie" may seem like strong language, but it's a demonstrable falsity to which she cannot claim ignorance. As Fox Nation reports, "When the Pelosi Democrats took control of Congress on January 4, 2007, the national debt stood at $8,670,596,242,973.04. The last day of the 111th Congress and Pelosi's Speakership on December 22, 2010 the national debt was $13,858,529,371,601.09 - a roughly $5.2 trillion increase in just four years. Furthermore, the year over year federal deficit has roughly quadrupled during Pelosi's four years as speaker, from $342 billion in fiscal year 2007 to an estimated $1.6 trillion at the end of fiscal year 2010."
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National Debt Reaches Unprecedented High Of $14 Trillion
CBS News reports that the "latest posting today of the National Debt shows it has topped $14 trillion for the first time. The U.S. Treasury website today reported that as of last Friday, the last day of 2010, the National Debt stood at $14,025,215,218,708.52. It took just 7 months for the National Debt to increase from $13 trillion on June 1, 2010 to $14 trillion on Dec. 31. It also means the debt is fast approaching the statutory ceiling $14.294 trillion set by Congress and signed into law by President Obama last February."
Read "18 Scary US Debt Facts" at CBS Money Watch by visiting http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/blog/financial-decoder/18-scary-us-debt-facts/2824/?tag=contentMain;contentBody
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Steele Faces GOP Rivals In Debate For RNC Chair
Visit http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ChairD to watch the debate. Tweet
Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett: "Who Is Afraid Of The Repeal Amendment?"
To read Barnett's important op-ed visit http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/01/who-afraid-repeal-amendment.
The Washington Examiner itself also endorsed the proposed Repeal Amendment in an editorial entitled "America needs a new national debate on the Constitution," which can be read at http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2011/01/america-needs-new-national-debate-constitution#ixzz19yJhpaWr.
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Debating The Constitutionality Of Obamacare
Panelists included Prof. Randy E. Barnett of the Georgetown University Law Center; Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray; Prof. Charles Fried of Harvard University Law School; Mr. David B. Rivkin, Jr., of Baker & Hostetler LLP; and Hon. David R. Stras of the Minnesota Supreme Court as the moderator.
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