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Former Obama Student Calls Out President on SCOTUS
http://nation.foxnews.com/thom-lambe...ent-speaks-out
By Thom Lambert
Imagine if you picked up your morning paper to read that one of your astronomy professors had publicly questioned whether the earth, in fact, revolves around the sun. Or suppose that one of your economics professors was quoted as saying that consumers would purchase more gasoline if the price would simply rise. Or maybe your high school math teacher was publicly insisting that 2 + 2 = 5. You’d be a little embarrassed, right? You’d worry that your colleagues and friends might begin to question your astronomical, economic, or mathematical literacy.
Now you know how I felt this morning when I read in the Wall Street Journal that my own constitutional law professor had stated that it would be “an unprecedented, extraordinary step” for the Supreme Court to “overturn[] a law [i.e., the Affordable Care Act] that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” Putting aside the “strong majority” nonsense (the deeply unpopular Affordable Care Act got through the Senate with the minimum number of votes needed to survive a filibuster and passed 219-212 in the House), saying that it would be “unprecedented” and “extraordinary” for the Supreme Court to strike down a law that violates the Constitution is like saying that Kansas City is the capital of Kansas. Thus, a Wall Street Journal editorial queried this about the President who “famously taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago”: “[D]id he somehow not teach the historic case of Marbury v. Madison?”
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
China Apologist (04-07-2012)
It always seem to me that the most vehement objectors to the Affordable Care Act are those that are the most comfortable and affluent, hardly surprising really.
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going, and hook up with them later.
tinfoil (04-07-2012)
China Apologist (04-07-2012), gui1tars (04-07-2012)
how does that explain my vehement objections?Originally Posted by Aoxomoxoa
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. —CHARLES A. BEARD
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. - Patrick Henry
So are you uncomfortable and poor?
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going, and hook up with them later.
where is nigel to attack the person...?
I'm not comfortable and I'm just above poor.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. —CHARLES A. BEARD
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. - Patrick Henry
WTF does this have to do with the article?
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-Midcan5 (liberals on freedom)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-Ib1yysguy (liberals on honoring fallen soldiers)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-apple0154 (liberals on constitutionalism)
most people who are called "tea party" members are not affluent...
They are pathetic weaklings who believe that by presenting their asses and thanking their masters afterwards their masters will give them a little pat on the head. Poor conservatives should be euthanized, they are the most depressing example of humanity ever to arise.
"Women hold up half the sky." - Mao Zedong
tinfoil (04-07-2012)
Two days later, still no response to the original premise of article.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.” - Robert Heinlein
gui1tars (04-07-2012)
I'll give you that. I've seen you squirm more than just this time and poor? Excuse for an orator or journalist or otherwise describer of events or opinions? Yeah. Poor would be my pick for you on that one as well.
Last edited by gui1tars; 04-07-2012 at 04:56 AM.
That's right. Otherwise they would be the organizers of the teabagger masses. Dick Armey and the Koch Bros. have done well with the lies they tell and the influences they create from virtually nothing.
Canceled (04-08-2012)
you just defined poor liberals with their 'masters' being the political caste.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. —CHARLES A. BEARD
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. - Patrick Henry
wtf are you babbling about now?
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. —CHARLES A. BEARD
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. - Patrick Henry
You.
Canceled (04-08-2012)
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