Traditional Marriage
Crying Bigotry: Last Refuge Of The Liberal
August 28, 2010
Crying Bigotry: Last Refuge Of The Liberal
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Posted 08/26/2010 07:00 PM ETALL OF US ‘GREAT UNWASHED’ SHOULD READ THIS SUMMARY OF JUST WHERE THINGS ARE STANDING. I FOR ONE AM IN FAVOR OF A DEFEAT OF LIBERALISM AND FOR THAT I HAVE BEEN CALLED DIVISIVE. IF THE SHOE FITS WEAR IT. THERE CAN BE NO COMPROMISE WITH SOCIALISM, IT MUST BE DEFEATED AT EVERY TURN IF WE WANT TO PRESERVE THE WAY OF LIFE WE HAVE COME TO LOVE AND BELIEVE IN. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!
“Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the 40-year liberal ascendancy that James Carville predicted into a full retreat.
Ah, the people, the little people, the small-town people, the "bitter" people, as Barack Obama in an unguarded moment once memorably called them, clinging "to guns or religion or" — this part is less remembered — "antipathy toward people who aren't like them."
That's a polite way of saying: clinging to bigotry. And promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking.
Resistance to the vast expansion of government power, intrusiveness and debt, as represented by the Tea Party? Why, racist resentment toward a black president.
Disgust and alarm with the federal government's unwillingness to curb illegal immigration, as crystallized in the Arizona law? ... “ READ MORE IN INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Read More...
Out of Thin Air
August 06, 2010
Out of Thin Air
Inverstors Business Daily August 5, 2010This is the top story of the week. As a freshman Florida State Representative in 1997, I sponsored the Florida Defense of Marriage Act in order pre-empt an attack on traditional marriage by the liberal majority on the Florida Supreme Court. Now, traditional marriage is under the final assault with the Supreme Court showdown in the not too distant future. Over the years I spent in the Florida House it was enlightening to see the natural tension between the three branches of government that our brilliant forefathers conceived. I learned along the way that liberal judges get as far as they do because these judges know that conservative lawmakers are afraid to use the checks and balances against the judiciary for fear of being called anti-law and order. I recently listened to Newt Gingrich giving a talk at the David Horowitz Restoration Weekend about President Jefferson firing about half of the federal judges in his day. It was truly insightful to hear that one of our founding fathers actually knew when to exercise the constitutional powers necessary to discipline another out of control branch in our inspired, but precarious, constitutional framework. Don’t our modern day conservatives legislators or executives believe in the same checks and balances?
From Investor’s Business Daily:
“Same-Sex Marriage: A federal judge decides marriage is a constitutional right and overturns California's Proposition 8 forbidding such unions. The issue is headed to a Supreme Court that Elena Kagan will be sitting on.
The imperial judiciary has struck again, with Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker striking down California's Proposition 8, passed in November 2008 with 52% of the vote, on the grounds that the voter-approved law was a violation of gay couples' civil rights.
Walker's ruling follows a Massachusetts federal judge's ruling last month that the state's married gay couples, also established by judicial fiat, were being wrongly denied the financial benefits of marriage because of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
In his decision, Judge Walker argues: "Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license." Except that Walker provides no rational basis for identifying marriage as a constitutional right.” ... READ MORE Read More...