Posted on 04/19/2015 6:33:32 PM PDT by cotton1706
No one can debate him. He reminds me of Milton Friedman in his mastery of a subject, his facility in expressing himself, and his calm demeanor.
I wonder if he’s considered the limits of religious tolerance. For example, can a society tolerate a religion that doesn’t tolerate other religions? I used to consider this to be a theoretical argument, but I no longer do. I don’t think the Founders considered the possibility of a significant Mohammedan population coming to America.
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“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible”
In what then does real power consist? The answer is short and plain—in property. Could we want any proofs of this, which are not exhibited in this country, the uniform testimony of history will furnish us with multitudes.By which he illustrates with the Roman and British aristocracies.
All I know is that anyone who cares to argue the Constitution with Ted Cruz had better bring a hard hat and pack a lunch. And bring a bucket, because they’ll be using it to carry their head after he’s done.
select-a-reply:
a) flat-earthers
b) homo/islamo-phobes
c) dead white slaveholders
d) all of the above
Cruz ... +1
Thank you.
Mistakes can slip through, glad you caught mine.
Bump
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Lets not go easy on them, learn’em good and hard.
:-)
Now they run the journolist without fear of reprisal.
Good on Ted for schooling them, it's one of many reasons to push him for the nomination. He knows we have to defeat the media as well as the DNC candidate. He also has the smarts to do it.
“I don’t think the Founders considered the possibility of a significant Mohammedan population coming to America.”
Exactly. Because of the inherent barbarity and aggression apparently endemic to the adherents of Islam, I’ve been saying for some time now that our freedom of religious expression cannot be sustained if it is going to mean that Muslims are also free to fully express their religion.
The problem is that what is allowed and even commanded in Islam is incompatible with our Judeo-Christian based system of laws. Almost any other religion I can think of would seem to be compatible. And, I agree that the Founders certainly, as they enshrined in words man’s right to be free from a state mandated religion, never imagined the republic would be populated by people who would worship Allah and, as a result, feel obliged to behead and burn people alive for “insulting” Allah. Nor that such people would mutilate their girls or kill their daughters for “dishonoring” them.
As the Apostle Paul said, “let me show you a better way”. Better, that is, than the legalistic and sometimes cruel strictures of the Old Testament of the Bible. The simple truth is that Islam has no New Testament, and has had no reformation.
Of course, neither Ted nor any other politician could say such things and likely get elected, but this clash of mutually exclusive religions will sooner or later come to a head. Hopefully, we can get control of immigration and demand that new immigrants swear fealty to American and traditional American values.
I’m sure some Republican can be found to run for President who could explain that Cruz’s understanding of the 2nd Amendment is simplistic, rigid, outdated, unsuitable for the 21st Century, promotes Climate Change, is inconsistent with Common Core and our international commitments, etc. Maybe he could be called “Jeb”-something.
The Old Gray Lady excels in the tactics of “girl bullying.”
Eventually, there will be a determination by Congress—or even a Constitutional amendment—declaring that Islam is not a religion, and the Koran and Hadiths not religious texts.
Either that, or the U.S. goes out of existence. Or, what is the same thing, the Democrat party succeeds.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other ...”
This was almost too easy. The Slimes must have thought they were criticizing a doofus constitutional “professor”
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