We are stuck in the toilet.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Justice Neil Gorsuch worries me
Quoted here:
"Originalism says the rights of the Constitution that were given in
1789 are the rights you enjoy today and they can never be taken -- and
if you want to add to them, we the people add to them," Gorsuch told
Bream.
Add rights? You mean like a right to healthcare? A home? A pony?
The original Bill of Rights enshrines the chartered rights of Englishmen which were perceived by the first Americans to have been abused by England's king. They are old rights, anciently memorialized in the long history of England's Christian civilization. While not exhaustive in an ideological sense, it is dubious to assert we can just invent new rights such as those out of thin air if we want to. The list is pretty complete as it is.
Amending the Constitution is not the same thing as "adding rights". If it is, we're all in trouble.
Monday, December 16, 2019
Judd Gregg, Senate author of TARP bank bailouts which picked bank winners, calls Trump conservative in name only
Judd Gregg's idea of a conservative president is one who abandons free market principles in order to save the free market system.
There is probably nothing short of runaway inflation that does more
damage to a market economy than to have the government pick who is going
to be successful and who is not. It perverts the fundamental purpose of a free market, which is to
allow the forces of private exchange to decide the winners and losers in
commerce.
Apparently it took the Army a whole year to get rid of this guy, but Vindman, sheesh
I love how my New Oxford American Dictionary comes up with it right away when I forget how to spell "Che Guevara".
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