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Antonin Scalia, Conservative Legal Giant
NY Times ^ | 02-13-2016 | Ross Douthat

Posted on 02/14/2016 8:57:53 AM PST by NRx

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To: Monorprise

Lifetime appointments is the equivalent of kings.

I want term limits in congress and the senate as well


21 posted on 02/14/2016 11:29:55 AM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Doche2X2

Douthat is actually pretty good. If you read something sensible in the NYT, you can be pretty sure it’s Douthat.

On the other hand, Brooks, the supposed “conservative”, is a total imbecile.


22 posted on 02/14/2016 11:34:03 AM PST by lowtaxsmallgov (This Administration has absolutely no idea how to grow an economy)
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To: loveliberty2
I believe that the Constitution was meant to be an eternal document. If it were effortlessly malleable to the relatively short term fashions and winds of society, we would not have a United States. We would have a house with add-ons made in very disparate times, and it would not be a smoothly crafted thing. The more changes, the less well it would function.


23 posted on 02/14/2016 11:52:57 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: dp0622

I am devastated. Been mourning one of my few non-acquaintance heroes (the many others are Marines).

“Scalia’s death in a presidential year promises to be a nightmare for the republic.”

Tomorrow I hope to hear some reassurance from Levin.


24 posted on 02/14/2016 6:40:00 PM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: NRx

“To have the intellectual godfather of the conservative bloc replaced by a liberal appointee would upset this balance, perhaps irrevocably. As it was for a time - and not a happy time - in the 1960s and 1970s...”

So that’s how we got the abomination of Roe? I guess I have more research to do.


25 posted on 02/14/2016 6:56:58 PM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: huldah1776

“Scalia’s legal philosophy strained to curb and check and roll back, by promoting a more limited and humble vision of the Supreme Court’s role in our republic.

But for all of his importance, all his influence, in this effort he clearly failed - and what’s about to come will prove it.”

Did he fail or did the actual system as constructed in the constitution lead to its implosion as John Adams predicted when he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” (John Adams, October 11, 1798.) I would have to edit this today to be “a Biblically moral and religious people.”


26 posted on 02/14/2016 7:09:55 PM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: huldah1776

There will be a few functions going on here and I will attend some of them.

it’s crushing

He reminded me so much of a few of my uncles :)


27 posted on 02/14/2016 11:00:29 PM PST by dp0622
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To: dp0622

I go with you in spirit. I must say this now. I am soooo happy he was pro-life. Nine kids, 35 grandkids is the greatest blessing!


28 posted on 02/15/2016 4:57:43 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: huldah1776

35!!!!????

crazy lol.

i have 42 first cousins. :)

We Italians like big families

I know you will be there in spirit.

That speech the senator in the The Godfather II was right, even though he was a weasel.

We love this country VERY much, and you’ll see Italian flags around, but NEVER without an American flag too.

You will get reprimanded by the neighborhood if you do!!


29 posted on 02/15/2016 5:09:33 AM PST by dp0622
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To: dp0622

Smiling. Does your family still try to live close together?


30 posted on 02/15/2016 5:14:13 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: dp0622

Hey, go online and listen to “Meanwhile Back At Mama’s” and you will hear the country version of ITALIAN NY values.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or-Lam5tPHc


31 posted on 02/15/2016 5:17:38 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: huldah1776

i have tears in my eyes. Dont know what to say.

What a beautiful song.

want to be a kids again on a camping trip with 50 of us and Uncle Ralph dancing drunk on the table and my father and Uncle Jimmy and Sally and Vinny laughing. My mother and aunt Millie and Fran too :)

thank you for bringing back such warm memories.

we are still close together, within 30 miles, but that ain’t 30 yards, or in same cases, 30 ft, like it used to be :(

what a beautiful gift that song was to me. thank you


32 posted on 02/15/2016 6:14:33 AM PST by dp0622
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To: dp0622

Your welcome. I have it bookmarked in my music folder on firefox. I also like “My Wish For You” by Rascal Flatts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGB7IWklW3s

Can you tell I miss my son?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roKCUFeWFmQ

Top three non-religious. Top religious = Doxology and Joy to the world.


33 posted on 02/15/2016 7:42:14 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: dp0622

I cried again. I just know how great and big this man’s heart, soul, and mind was (and will be again) and his loss is overwhelming. While scrolling down after reading an article about Erin Brockovich, don’t ask - it’s going to be in a book, I read this...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/16/stephen-colbert-will-be-forever-grateful-to-antonin-scalia.html


34 posted on 02/16/2016 10:03:29 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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