Category Archives: Freedom

Intent

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[pullquote]The constitution means now what it did long ago.[/pullquote]

I don’t much care for the term “original intent”. The constitution has a meaning and that meaning does not change over time. Time does pass and things do change, but if there was intent at the beginning then that intent can hardly change when the ones who intended are gone.

There is exactly one way to change the meaning of the constitution, and that is through Amendments. Anything else is interpretation, which is good and absolutely necessary to the functioning of society, but it does not supplant the intent. Unfortunately, many today believe that interpretation does supplant intent either from their own ignorance or the ignorance of their teachers. Don’t believe it.

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Cut, Cap, Balance Pledge is a Trojan Horse

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The more I think about this, the more I vehemently dislike this pledge idea.  Stop talking, and just fight.

[pullquote]We already had a pledge and the Republicans sold us down the river.  This is just more of Lucy and the football.[/pullquote]

There are several honest Republicans pushing this idea, but it’s still rotten.  This is marketed as an offense to be used against Democrats, but in fact, it is a defense to shield Republicans from the base.  This is establishment Republicans trying to convince us that the way to win in Washington is to help them convince their democrat friends to vote with the Republicans.

That is the wrong answer.  This is just more of Lucy and the football.  We do not need to expend a single … Continue reading →

New Apple Technology Stops iPhones From Filming Live Events – FoxNews.com

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Well, Apple, I certainly hope that the purpose of this patent is to lock away the technology.  Hint, hint.

A patent application filed by Apple, and obtained by the Times, reveals how the software would work. If a person were to hold up their iPhone, the device would trigger the attention of infra-red sensors installed at the venue. These sensors would then instruct the iPhone to disable its camera.

via New Apple Technology Stops iPhones From Filming Live Events – FoxNews.com.

Stunning and obvious potential for abuse.  Why not surreptitiously install the infrared things wherever a well-connected entity feels like ensuring no evidence exists?  And don’t bother me about the whole world not being exclusively on iPhones.  Once something like this is functioning and legal, it’s everywhere.

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The Great Wait Has Begun

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The Wait

America’s friends and enemies alike are waiting for the results of the 2012 election as much as Americans themselves.  Perhaps more.  Much is at stake, but for many reasons, the most valuable tactic of delay is the least-mentioned.  The clock is running out on Obama, and those who can wait are holding out in civil fashion for better days.  Those who cannot are scrambling to survive.  But if Obama wins in 2012, all bets are off.

Abroad

The American right is not much given to complaining about its government overseas, so that the perennial threats made by famous but inconsequential people to move abroad are not a feature of unpopular democrat administrations.  Neither are tens of thousands of YouTube videos and online still photos with perky … Continue reading →

Fury in Japan

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If you think the reactors are glowing hot and about to blow, wait until you see the parents.

Japanese society may well be transformed by fallout, both radiological and political, from the multiple disasters centered upon the dying Fukushima nuclear powerplant.

For two months, the children at the Soramame Children’s House, a day care center about 37 miles from the stricken plant, spent their days indoors, windows sealed shut to keep out radiation, their favorite buckets and spades contaminated and strictly off limits.

But when the local authorities made no effort to decontaminate the area, caregivers took matters into their own hands. On the advice of local environmental groups — they said local officials had none to give — a group of parents and teachers donned makeshift protective … Continue reading →

Religious not Agrarian Impulse to Civilization

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Ten thousand year old structures easily world’s oldest, help debunk Communist narrative about “agrarian revolution” triggering civilization.

On a hilltop in Southern Turkey, researchers have found evidence that civilization is older and more subtle than we have admitted.  Read the article for more information, but the find is seven thousand years older than the great pyramids.  On top of a hill.  With no local stone.  And nobody lived there.  Or even grew crops.

The assemblage was built some 11,600 years ago, seven millennia before the Great Pyramid of Giza. It contains the oldest known temple. Indeed, Göbekli Tepe is the oldest known example of monumental architecture—the first structure human beings put together that was bigger and more complicated than a hut. When these … Continue reading →

Final Jeopardy for David Gregory

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Republicans should use this opportunity to fire back at the biased media by boycotting Meet The Press.  The advantages outweigh the drawbacks.

On the wildly popular game show Jeopardy, contestants must state their answers in the form of a question.  That’s pretty much the rule in lefty hack journalism as well.  I do not support the candidacy of Newt Gingrich, but we cannot accept this sort of thing or we are bound to lose.

David Gregory, the host of NBC’s somewhat less popular Meet The Press,  made an assertion of fact along the way to slandering a Republican candidate for President. I say he needs to put up or shut up. If he cannot produce the goods, and will not apologize for his baseless slander, then … Continue reading →

For the Children

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Cross between a skewering of Pelosi’s evasions and Gore’s book etc to show that they will kill us all “for the children”. This should be in a somewhat confusing tone, a little Modest Proposal but not full-on. I’m looking for a sort of vicious mocking by an inappropriate gentleness.

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Open Letter to McConnell and Boehner:
I listened to speeches made by both of you immediately after the election. I was greatly impressed by both speeches–I played the m for friends and introduced them to podcasts and talk radio wherever possible. while unfortunately wondering how long it would last. I have read several accounts of conflict between Tea PArty and GOP chars b4 election, and some immed after. Fair enough. The first serious trbl I saw … Continue reading →

Bill Clinton wants Ministry of Truth

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Former president Bill Clinton is agitating once again for what amounts to a Ministry of Truth from Orwell’s 1984.

If Bill Clinton had his way, there would be an Internet agency created by the U.S. government or United Nations to debunk malicious rumors that originate and spread online.
–Fox News, clinton muses creating internet agency, FoxNews.com, May 2011

[pullquote]How dare an American president, current or former, propose to arbitrate truth?[/pullquote]

This is remarkable for a number of reasons.  First of course is the horrifying vision of a totalitarian state which finds this sort of thing necessary, as opposed to free nations, which do not.  I think that is the obvious part, which I will not belabor.  I’ll belabor the second reason a little though, … Continue reading →