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Tweet Time Magazine, which is scarcely a relevant publication anymore (at least not the way it was when I was growing up), garnered itself some publicity by questioning whether the Constitution still matters.  Proving that there are good lawyers out there, Aaron Worthing explains the thirteen egregious errors Time made in order to denigrate the [...]

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Tweet Here’s J.E. Dyer about the administration’s threat to cut off pay to active duty military: The possibility that the military will be required to continue on duty without pay also highlights one of the important differences between the military and the rest of the federal government.  The government can’t require its civilian work force [...]

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Tweet If you’re old enough to have lived through the 1970s, you recognize my post title:  Gilda Radner’s famous character Roseanne Roseannadanna would let loose with a foolish tirade, and then wrap it up by saying “It’s always something — if it ain’t one thing, it’s another.”  Someone needs to resurrect that character, or at [...]

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Tweet “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” If it wasn’t for the fact that he’s a committed gun control guy, I might have mistaken Nicholas Kristof’s NYTs column today for a perfectly realized, Iowahawk-esque [...]

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Tweet My daughter’s 8th grade history class is studying the Constitution.  With the Republican House’s plan to inaugurate its majority by reading the Constitution aloud, I had a little talk with her about the Constitution. Me:  Can you tell me what the Constitution is? Daughter:  It’s a document that tells the government what to do. [...]

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Tweet Today, the GOP takes over the House.  The New York Times is not pleased and wrote what is quite possibly the most ungracious editorial ever.  How can you top this for snark: Those who had hoped to see a glimpse of the much-advertised Republican plan to revive the economy and put Americans back to [...]

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Tweet I’m late to the party on this one, but I still wanted you all to read, if you haven’t already, Don Surber’s post about Ezra Klein, a Progressive who shocked the world (at least the Leftist world), by honestly stating that he believes the Constitution simply isn’t a relevant document. It’s so old, you [...]

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Tweet Every summer for the past several years, we’ve gone to a local (and wonderful) Civil War reenactment.  Without exception, the people who have chosen to reenact the Southern side will tell one, quite earnestly, that the Southern side was about states’ rights, not about slavery.  Even 145 years after the war ended (or perhaps [...]

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Tweet Two of my absolute favorite political writers, Peter Wehner and Jennifer Rubin, have chastised O’Donnell for her recently reported constitutional error.  I think that, perhaps, they’re being unfair.  It’s clear from reading the news reports that the Constitutional portion of the debate was intended to be a pile-up on O’Donnell: Also during the debate, [...]

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