Why Kyoto is a Scam
It's about $, and about simulated virtue. Samuelson
Take Back the Memorial
Consider signing the petition, if you haven't yet.
The 17th Amendment
A savvy reader is all over the role of the 17th Amendment (Click here: The Constitution of the United States of America - popular election of Senators) in undermining Federalism, with references here:Click here: Federalism & Seventeenth Amendment. Repeal it! and here: Click here: NeoPolitique -- Far-Reaching and Forgotten: The 17th Amendment. It's a heck of a good point but I think that battle has been lost. How could you run a campaign to take the vote away from people and return it to the morons in state legislatures?
A Namby-Pamby Nation
Michelle has a pretty good rant on the subject, at
Town Hall.More on Kelo
In
American Thinker: The Pandora’s box opened up by such a position should be obvious. I ask you, what legal business doesn’t create jobs and revenue? That’s what businesses do. Therefore, under this reasoning it follows that any commercial development proposal under the sun could serve as an eminent domain-enabled pretext to seize your property. Hey, even a hotdog stand produces more jobs and tax revenue than your home does.
This fact was not lost on Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. In what strikes me as a rare moment of lucidity, she wrote in her dissent, “The specter of condemnation hangs over all property . . . nothing is to prevent the state from replacing any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory.”
I do concur. Moreover, what seems to have escaped everyone’s notice is that the leftist judges have broadened the definition of “public use” to a point where they’ve rendered the term meaningless. After all, if a “public use” can in reality be any use deemed beneficial to society by the powers that be, then the term has lost its raison d’etre.
Read the whole thing - link above.
Can you believe Delay said this?
re the House voting to raise their salaries - try this one on your boss today:
"It's not a pay raise," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. "It's an adjustment so that they're not losing their purchasing power."
