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  1. Wonder how many will get this reference. Depends on what your definition of extraneous is.
  2. The Defund ACORN Act, if passed and directed only at ACORN could be argued as Unconstitutional. Article I Section 9 forbids the Congress from passing a Bill of Attainder- laws directed against specific individuals or groups. I am not saying that the Defund ACORN Act is Unconstitutional. The Bill of Attainder provision in the Constitution was probably meant to prevent the legislative branch from passing laws against individuals to bypass court rulings, which this does not do, but it may be something that some Constitutional lawyers look into. http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3571/text This Act is written very broadly. There are many other organizations that have recived federal funding, or continue to recive federal funding who may have violated some of the provisions in the Act. For example Boeing, KBR(Haliburton), Lockheed Martin, and Northrup Grumman have either reached settlements or had judgments agianst them in cases that deal specificly with Government Contract Fraud. Will these companies that recive a large amount(Lockheed and Boeing recive billions of dollars a year) be included, or is this just an act directed only at ACORN?
  3. This game is the culmination of LC-LCA Rilvalry Week. The two schools are playing each other in all falls sports this week: Boys/Girls Soccer, Boys/Girls Golf, Volleyball, and Football. There are also in school competitions this week. The schools will compete in a charity food drive and a denim drive(Habitiat for Humanity takes old denim jeans, jackets ect. and shreds them to use for insulation in new homes they build.) There is a joint pep rally for the two schools at LCA's gym tonight. Faculty vs Faculty volleyball game. For each win(including the charity drives), that school will get one point for a running total. At the end of the week, the school with the most points will recive a trophy to remain at one of the two schools for the rest of the year. Both schools look to establish a great school to school rilvalry for years to come.
  4. Hatz, add to the fact that about 10 or 11 Czars are members of the NSC, and have been confirmed by the Senate.
  5. I congratulate you for standing up for what you belive. The fact that we may disagree just means that we can have good debates later. Hopefully I can get around here some more. I do enjoy what you post and your passion for issues.
  6. I've been told by a former Supreme Court clerk that it is a thought that goes around somewhat in the Court.
  7. There is no mention in the Constitution of how the Court should come to a decision. This is to me, the most important aspect of our Constitution. Because the Courts have no formal instruction from the founding document, the Judiciary has a measure of Independence that the other branches don't. Thier independence allows those on the Court to use thier wisdom, thought, and prior precedent to judge acts and laws against the Constitution. In Federalist No. 78, Alexander Hamilto writes: "...the complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential.." We have had some Justices of the Supreme Court be considered Liberal, some Conservative. Ideas of Strict Constructionalism or Originalism(Textualism to Scalia) is allowed in a way that Loose Constructionist or ideas about a Living Document are. And that's not even getting into the idea of being an Judicial Activist(Liberal or Conservative). Basically, because the Supreme Court gets to decide the finer points of what is Constitutional or not, they can decide how they decide it as well. I guess my whole point is they can. But if they do, they really didn't. Blame it on John Marshall.
  8. Here, let me help out. We always seem to look at Brown v. Board (1954) as the landmark case that ended segregation in schools, but ignore the multiple cases heard by the Supreme Court connected to Brown, later on. In fact, Brown was a two decision case on two seperate legal points. All the cases decided by the Supreme Court dealt with the 14th Amendments Equal Protection clause. cch, while the purpose of the laws passed after the 14th Amendment may not have violated it, the effects of those laws did violate the 14th.
  9. If Medicare is going to be an around, I think that single payer system should be for everyone. However, if anyone wants to get started with dismantleing and eliminating Medicare, then I will drop my support for single payer. I prefer the health care system to be more consistent accross the board, state to state, ect. I'm not saying that a single payer would be the best, but I haven't done enough educated research to say what would be the best.
  10. The reform bills should at the very least set up a national standard to allow crossing of state lines to seek better options. I'd like to go to a single payer system incrementally, indexed to the debt and GDP growth. I don't know how practical it would be, but I'd prefer to go that way than to an immediate single payer system.
  11. IMO, the reason the bridge was critizied so, is because it recived the negative moniker Bridge to Nowhere. I think that if the lawmakers of Alaska felt it was a good thing for thier economy, then I would support it. I feel that they(I'm not sure to which degree to say the Legislature and/or Palin, Stevens) felt after it recived the negative nickname and attention, it wasn't worth the money. I agree with you that all spending is not good spening, and I've been described as a big Government Liberal. I have read some of the stimulus bill, and like parts of it, and don't like others. I think that scrutiny of the Stimulus Bill as a whole is difficult, as it contains many projects over about a two year time frame. The Bridge to Nowhere was a specific part of the Transportation funds, so the comparison of thier critisim is not apples to apples. I think that there will be some projects that will commence from the Stimulus bill sometime next spring, that may get labled negativley, and recive Bridge to Nowhere type scrutiny.
  12. From what I remeber, the "Bridge to Nowhere" was part of a larger Transportation funds grant, in which projects were not specified by the Federal Government. The state of Alaska had the freedom to spend the money where it chose, and eventually spent the money elsewhere after all of the ciritisim.
  13. IMO, Trey is probably the best overall candidate, and if he becomes the Republican candidate, McConnell will bring the resources in a more enthusiasic way than if it were Bunning. Of course, if Obama still has high performace ratings, and the economy gets a little better, that may help pull the strings for any Dem candidate against Grayson.
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