Dick Chebey praises murder of a US civilian
I wonder if Cheney would endorse Obama if Ron Paul got the Republican nomination?
Smoot–Hawley 2.0 coming our way?
Will Congress declare a trade war against China?
The “great” economist Paul Krugman thinks we should. But like most of his ideas they are devastating to the economy.
Tariffs helped plunge this country into the Great Depression in the 30s and will do just that if Congress declares a trade war against China now.
Supreme Court Tyranny
Originally written in 1999 but still even more relevant today as it was then.
constantly reread The Federalist Papers, and every time I do my heart cracks a little. If only the Constitution worked the way Alexander Hamilton and James Madison promised it would!
In Federalist No. 53, Madison noted as a flaw in the British system that the British Constitution – the almost sacred fundamental law – could be changed by a simple legislative act of the Parliament. The Parliament therefore had the power to abolish the liberties of the people at any moment.
Herein lay, according to Madison, the superiority of our proposed Constitution. It was to be “a Constitution established by the people and unalterable by the government.” Today the federal government constantly alters the Constitution, making it what Thomas Jefferson feared: “a blank paper by construction [interpretation].”
Jefferson warned that the federal government must never be allowed to be the sole and final judge of its own powers, because it would construe those powers so broadly as to destroy all limits on them. Yet we now take for granted that the U.S. Supreme Court has the authority to decide what the Constitution means, though no such authority is given to it in the Constitution itself.
Most Americans know little about the Constitution, and much of what they know ain’t so. They “know” there are three branches of government, that each state has two U.S. senators, and that the Bill of Rights says something about freedom of speech; and they are content to let the Supreme Court fill in the blanks. And conservatives do little to correct this impression.
Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the federal government the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren’t entitled to.
It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments. Ideologically it belongs in the same class with political constitutions and bills of rights.
Why liberals should like libertarian values
When Neo-Cons attack
I’m seeing more and more of these every single day. Love the premise of this one.
If we stop being the worlds police our economy would collapse.
News flash buddy, our economy is collapsing right now because we are the worlds police.
Not only that but Ron Paul and the majority of libertarians aren’t isolationists. We believe in non-aggression. Big fucking differences. Of course the neo-cons could care less about either. If you don’t support bombing every single country full of brown people you are an anti-semitic chicken hawk isolationist neo-liberal or whatever slanderous term they can think of.
I wonder where the neo-cons will strike next.
