Alliance Defense Fund & Michael Medved Talk About the "Constitutional" Challenges Ragarding the Banning of the National Day of Prayer (Plus, Atheist Call Taken)

Here is some background on the judge who ruled the National Day of Prayer as unconstitutional. Some discussion of Franklin Graham takes place as well as an atheists concern with the Day of Prayer -- who's case is shown to be vacuous when another proposition is offered.

 

Judge Andrew Napolitano Discusses The Constitutional Implications Of The Congressional Proposal To Force Individuals To Purchase Health Insurance (An Oldie But Goodie)

Illinoise Congressman Hank Johnson "Apologizes" for Anti-Constitutional Remarks... Or Does He!?

See original video HERE.

Thanks to a commenter on HotAir about this video... it is pointed out that in this apology you see what seems to be an accidental flipping off... but as you watch, "the bird" becomes more apparent. The conspiracy of the middle-finger begins:

Answer the Question Congressman Hare (Illinois Democratic)

NewsBusters h/t

Jason Mattera Confronts House Majority Leader Steny Hoye On Forcing People Into A Health-Care Bill

Steny Hoyer explains taxing Americans for lack of health insurance

Victor Davis Hanson on ObamaCare (Plus, Is It Constitutional?)

We’ve Crossed the Rubicon

President Obama has crossed the Rubicon with the health care vote. The bill was not really about medicine; after all, a moderately priced, relatively small federal program could offer the poorer not now insured, presently not on Medicare or state programs like Medicaid or Medical, a basic medical plan.

We have no interest in stopping trial lawyers from milking the system for billions. And we don’t want to address in any meaningful way the individual’s responsibility in some cases (drink, drugs, violence, dangerous sex, bad diet, sloth, etc.) for costly and chronic health procedures.

No, instead, the bill was about assuming a massive portion of the private sector, hiring tens of thousands of loyal, compliant new employees, staffing new departments with new technocrats, and feeling wonderful that we “are leveling the playing field” and have achieved another Civil Rights landmark law. (NB: do the math: add higher state income taxes in most states; the new Clinton-era federal income tax rates to come; the proposed lifting of limits on income exposed to FICA taxes; and now new health care charges — and I think you can reach in some cases a bite of 65%to 70% of one’s income.)

So we are in revolutionary times in which the government will grow to assume everything from energy use to student loans, while abroad we are a revolutionary sort of power, eager to mend fences with Syria and Iran, more eager still to distance ourselves from old Western allies like Israel and Britain.

There won’t be any more soaring rhetoric from Obama about purple-state America, “reaching across the aisle,” or healing our wounds. That was so 2008. Instead, we are in the most partisan age since Vietnam, ushered into it by the self-acclaimed “non-partisan.” But how could it be anything else?....

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Texas Text Book Wars

The Pledge Constitutional Again

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld two religious freedom cases in San Francisco. 

The court ruled on Thursday that the phrases "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on coins and currency are both constitutional. The legal challenges had been brought by professed atheist Michael Newdow, who had claimed the references to God disrespect his atheist beliefs.

An attorney with the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) summarizes the court's ruling. "The court saw that both the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Motto -- "In God We Trust" -- do not violate the Establishment Clause, but rather they acknowledge the initial premises of our founding, which is that God gives each citizen inalienable rights," explains Kevin Snyder.

The rights of atheists and agnostics are included in those inalienable rights, Snyder notes, but not at the expense of people of faith. The court stressed that there is no violation of the so-called "separation of church and state," and Snyder reports that cases such as this continue to crop up periodically because "a segment of our society, particularly in law schools...wants to remove all semblances of religion from public life."

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Judge Andrew Napolitano On Un-Constitutionality of Federal Health Care

The Beer Party vs. Tea Party & Coffee Party (not a Ron Paul fan, but I like his son)

(Left Coast Rebel h/t)

May I say that while I am a "small 'r' Republican," this "Beer Party" is a bit too Libertarian for me.

Sen. DeMint Talks About Land-Grabs, and An Example of Eminent Domain

Maddow vs. The Constitution

(Great catch from NewsBusters)

Here's Maddow describing one of the things she didn't like --

MADDOW: There were lots of people giving away copies of the Constitution, but in a thing that sort of bothers me, they couldn't resist adding their own documents to the Constitution. So you can get the Constitution, plus say, the mission statement of the anti-ACLU American Civil Rights Union. Or you can get the Constitution plus the mission statement of the Young America's Foundation. Or you can get the Constitution with a foreword by Ron Paul. Much as I love Ron Paul, I don't think you get to write a foreword to the Constitution.

 Actually you do, thanks to -- all together, in unison -- the Constitution.

 

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2010/02/20/rachel-maddow-miffed-constitution-allegedly-sullied-accompanying-conse

Charles Krauthammer on Supreme Court, Massachusetts, and Air America (the Conservative Trifecta)

Scott Brown Quote

"...[T]he message we need to send in dealing with terrorists [is] our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them -- and not lawyers to defend them"

Rewritten Cartoons

 (TownHall Cartoons (roundup); Daryl Cagle's "Topics"; John Cole)

Glenn Beck on Progressives

Liberal Democrats have been in control of the top ten poorest cities 92% of the time since 1965... they destroy the little man

 

The Constitution vs. Democrats

Obama ~ Jail Time for Not Having a Policy (Plus: Mark Levin)

You Democrats, can you point me to somewhere in the Constitution where there can be a forced policy with jail time if one doesn't get one.  The Constitution allows for states to pass laws that include penalties for lack of insurance... can you please point me to where this power is given to the Federal government.  Seriously.

31 States Speak Out on Same-Sex Marriage

The Gay Patriot says new leadership needed in the gay community, because, as they point out, 31 states have spoken! When allowed that is:

PORTLAND, Maine- Voters in Maine have rejected an effort by lawmakers there to impose homosexual "marriage" in that state.

Gay marriage has now lost in every single state -- 31 in all -- in which it has been put to a popular vote. Gay-rights activists had hoped to buck that trend in Maine -- known for its liberal-minded electorate -- and mounted an energetic, well-financed campaign. With 87 percent of the precincts reporting, proponents of traditional marriage had 53 percent of the votes. "The institution of marriage has been preserved in Maine and across the nation," declared Frank Schubert, chief organizer for the winning side.

Gay-marriage supporters held out hope that the tide would shift before conceding defeat at 2:40 a.m. in a statement that insisted they weren't going away. "We're in this for the long haul. For next week, and next month, and next year -- until all Maine families are treated equally. Because in the end, this has always been about love and family and that will always be something worth fighting for," said Jesse Connolly, manager of the pro-gay marriage campaign.

At issue was a law passed by the Maine Legislature last spring that would have legalized same-sex marriage. The law was put on hold after conservatives launched a petition drive to repeal it in a referendum.

The outcome Tuesday marked the first time voters had rejected a gay-marriage law enacted by a legislature. When Californians put a stop to same-sex marriage a year ago, it was in response to a court ruling, not legislation.

Five other states have legalized gay marriage -- starting with Massachusetts in 2004, and followed by Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Iowa -- but all did so through legislation or court rulings, not by popular vote. In contrast, constitutional amendments banning gay marriage have been approved in all 30 states where they have been on the ballot....

(read more at One News Now)

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