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- Opinion · Dec 9, 2021Is This the Answer to Abortion for Some Women?
hollering for more services for the poor. Free medicine, free education, free income for life. Is there no limit? This thought occurred to me as I read the arguments … gave it any thought at all. There is no mention of abortion in the Constitution. The Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade just made it up like they made
- Opinion · Dec 9, 2021If the Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade, What Happens?
legalize abortion. Rather, the Court discovered a “right to privacy” — nowhere mentioned in the Constitution. After John Roberts’ nomination to become a Supreme Court justice, a Los Angeles Times reporter … upheld a District of Columbia law permitting abortion only to preserve a woman’s life or “health.” The Court, however, generously defined “health” to include “psychological and physical well-being
- Opinion · Dec 7, 2021Wait Management: Days of Dobbs Prayer Ahead
including Erin — “There’s simply nothing about a right to an abortion in the Constitution’s text structure or history.” Mississippi’s legal team made that argument very convincingly … both sides are gearing up for an epic battle over the sanctity of human life. For Democrats, who are desperate to give anyone a reason to vote for them after
- Opinion · Dec 7, 2021RIP, Bob
attend the Republican National Convention. But Bob Dole was there as a strong Trump supporter, and he remained loyal to Trump throughout his presidency. Please join Carol … they must fight back! Trump’s Warning On the latest edition of “Life, Liberty and Levin,” Donald Trump warned that Joe Biden could so seriously damage the United States that
- Opinion · Dec 4, 2021Reversing Roe
find it in the Constitution. In fact, Roe is not just one degree removed from the Constitution, but two degrees away from the Constitution. To get to Roe , one must … Constitution suggests that right exists within the Constitution and almost all states had bans on abortion when those states ratified the 14th Amendment. The plain reading of the Constitution suggests
- Opinion · Dec 4, 2021The Cracks Are Showing in Roe v. Wade
human life. Ultimately, Stewart’s appeal to state sovereignty and deft handling of stare decisis concerns appeared to compel most of the court’s conservative justices, which now constitute … right to abortion was one created “out of whole cloth, without a shred of support from the constitution’s text.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh appeared most clearly to lean in favor
- Opinion · Dec 3, 2021The Supreme Court Isn’t a Medical Board or Legislature
comes up with decisions all the time that aren’t directly grounded in the Constitution. In Roe and Casey, the court made the mistake of thinking that it should … viability is “objectively verifiable and doesn’t delve into philosophical questions about when life begins.” This is in doubt, though. Some premature babies have survived after being born
- Article · Dec 2, 2021Thursday Short Cuts: Dobbs v. Jackson Edition
talking about?” —Justice Clarence Thomas “The fetus has an interest in having a life.” —Justice Samuel Alito Lacking Self-Awareness : “Any failure to fully strike down the Mississippi ban would … this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts? I don’t see how it is possible
- Article · Dec 1, 2021‘Smoolyay’ and Friends Have Some ‘Splaining to Do
wait nearly three years for Jussie Smollett to finally get his constitutionally guaranteed right to a speedy trial by a jury of his peers. But here we are. Finally … attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.” What an ignorant
- Opinion · Nov 19, 2021Capital Punishment Still Serves Its Purpose. Don’t Abolish It.
There are some crimes for which even life imprisonment without parole simply does not suffice. Bowing to intense political pressure, Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt, the Republican governor … federal criminal justice system is not only afforded the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States, but is also treated fairly and humanely,” Garland said
- Article · Nov 17, 2021Rittenhouse Case Should Never Have Been Brought
absolute perfect self-defense.” Absolute perfect self-defense. Pierce, who heads the National Constitutional Law Union — which he calls “the ACLU for the rest of us” — says: “This case should … leftists wailing about the sanctity of state borders are the same ones who support Joe Biden’s disastrous open-borders policy with Mexico.) As for where Rittenhouse lives
- Opinion · Nov 15, 2021Pilgrims Experimented With Communism — and Rejected It!
wisdom saw that another plan of life was fitter for them.” High winds and treacherous tides along North America’s coast blew the Pilgrims 500 miles off course, preventing them … Pilgrims created their own - the Mayflower Compact. It was the first “constitution” written in America. The Mayflower Compact began: “In ye name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten
- Opinion · Nov 9, 2021Lacking Infrastructural Integrity
reasons no one can fathom — 13 Republicans decided to give the sinking party a life raft. To most people watching the evening unfold, it was baffling. After finally putting … infrastructure] bill,” Pelosi vowed, “unless we have a reconciliation bill...” Even if Republicans do support traditional infrastructure (and there’s plenty of proof that this was not that), is today
- Opinion · Nov 9, 2021Infrastructure Insanity
Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked Biden’s vaccine mandate, citing “grave statutory and constitutional issues.” That’s good news because now the CDC wants us to keep wearing masks … government controlling your life. Conservatives believe in smaller government and more freedom. On a related point, Dr. Ben Carson was asked this weekend whether he supported the CDC’s decision
- Opinion · Nov 4, 2021The Night Is Youngkin
summarily contradicted by events. No president elected after World War II lost more public support in his first few months of office than he has, according to Gallup.” The down … looks like it will go Republican. If so, the new Speaker will be pro-life Todd Gilbert, a former winner of FRC’s State Legislator of the Year Award
- Article · Oct 29, 2021What Role Do Parents Play in Education?
unprecedented. They claim “common law and case law in the United States have long supported the idea that education should prepare young people to think for themselves, even if that … liberty the Constitution preserves to protect the authority of parents in the American family.” The Left, on the other hand, “uses the powers the Constitution does not restrict to magnify
- Article · Oct 26, 2021SCOTUS Fast-Tracks Texas Fetal Heartbeat Case
protecting the fundamental rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness outlined in our Declaration of Independence than does insisting without constitutional support that abortion is a constitutional “right
- Opinion · Oct 25, 2021Can Authoritarianism Take Root in a Constitutional Republic?
highest inflation rate in 30 years, with no end in sight? The U.S. Constitution provides a means to remove a president who engages in such “high crimes and misdemeanors … status in just 200 years after its birth, a country that he supported for virtually his entire life. Author and Georgetown University professor Fathali Moghaddam wrote a book a couple
- Opinion · Oct 22, 2021Congress Needs to Provide Guardrails for the Cryptocurrency Revolution
century threat to the American nation, the American people and the American way of life. The first half of this century will be defined by how the U.S. meets … then filed a $1.3 billion enforcement action alleging that every XRP sale since 2013 constituted an unregistered securities trade. That is not how due process of law is supposed
- Opinion · Oct 18, 2021How Democracies and Republics Rise and Fall
which is amazingly applicable to today. Plato described government going through FIVE STAGES: “The constitutions of states are five.” The FIVE STAGES are: “We count as one Royal and Aristocratical … mainspring (support).” George Washington stated in his Farewell Address, September 19, 1796: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports