Justice Thomas’ dire prediction

Razormouth.com ^ | 12/26/03 | Jim Babka

[wilmington2]

No, you will not go to jail as the media, mostly leftist, wiill refuse to publish your ad unless you have a "permit".

[moodyskeptic]

Whew. Took a lot of typing to say, essentially: " you're all fools, I alone am enlightened".

[zeugma]

You are correct. See my tag.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

The Republic has ended.

We are in that delicate stage, where we must decide whether we will unite under the first King/Emperor, or dissolve into several nations and perhaps further.

All the great families and power players know this, intuitively, whether they realize it or not.

By 2010 we will either be on the march to an American world, or we will be at war, in this nation.

[Mackey]

tax cuts are the only thing that matters. the insects in washington can't survive on the scale they are now without tax increases. that is the battleground; cashflow is everything.

It doesn't work that way.

The federal government finances its activities by borrowing; its spending is not limited to the funds that it takes in. It habitually "lives beyond its means." In practical terms it has furnished itself with the ability to create money out of thin air. Tax revenues are used to service the ever-increasing debt load created by borrowing.

This is another example of the governing class accumulating power at the expense of the rest of us.

[LaraCroft]

I really hate it when someone attempts to respond to a well thought out treatise with no information, no attempt to impart anything real to the discussion. It's like arguing with a 2 year old.

Oh please, there is no appreciable difference between the Republican party and the Democratic party. They are both for nanny government, just in different areas, and the things done by (and not done by) the recent republicans in power have left much to be desired.

[LaraCroft]

Deeply saddened to be agreeing with you, and even more saddened that so many people don't seem to get it.

And you wonder why people load themselves willingly into cattle cars?

[joesbucks]

The politics of the "justices" is all that matters now.

Always has, always will.

[Theodore R.]

Apparently Bush signed the McCain-Feingold law to keep McCain from challenging Bush as an independent in the 2004 general election.

[Kevin Curry]

. . . but what can one say of the GOP's support of Ah-nold, who is a Democrat in all but name, is a product of Hollywood, supports abortion on demand, and is even married to a Kennedy? (I love that last one - I guess Uncle Ted personally advised on Ah-hold's campaign. How many parties are there?) It's the cheap pull of glitz and celebrity and image that gets the chumps every time.

What do you make of the fact that his support is weighted more toward the female end of the voter spectrum (not unlike Slick Willie Clinton)?

Good rant; interesting commentary, BTW.

[logic101.net]

I agree with your comment fully! Congress and the courts have been nibling away at other ammendments for decades, this was one huge bite out of the First Ammendment!

Mark A Sity

[mrsmith]

"a small group of lke minded inviduals buying an ad? give me a break. In almost all cases Ads are bought by large groups. "

The Free Republic Washington Times ad was printed in February, before the Senate vote, so it would not have been affected by the new law.
However, it certainly appears that the new law would have made it illegal to run it in the months before the House vote, which took place just after the election.

Perhaps a case like that (with facts- which were totally absent in the special 'advisory' way the court heard this) will arise and persuade the court, or congress, to further restrict the law.

[Texas_Dawg]

Oh please, there is no appreciable difference between the Republican party and the Democratic party. They are both for nanny government, just in different areas, and the things done by (and not done by) the recent republicans in power have left much to be desired.

The differences are absolutely huge as the Iraq War and Bush tax cuts have shown.

[Texas_Dawg]

I really hate it when someone attempts to respond to a well thought out treatise with no information, no attempt to impart anything real to the discussion. It's like arguing with a 2 year old.

Funny, you say that and then you post a statement that is absolutely idiotic right after it. I guess if you are just some constantly negative, unhappy, isolated misanthrope like yourself (and many others at FR), then no, there isn't much difference in the two parties. But you will always be unhappy and thinking we are all doomed. So keep voting for Pat Buchanan (or whoever) and keep losing elections. Have fun in your bunker.

[Wolfie]

So, just to be clear, where in favor of judicial activism in this case, right?

[spodefly]

True. Sad, but true.

[Mr. Mojo]

The differences are absolutely huge as the Iraq War and Bush tax cuts have shown.

The differences are huge on some things (like the ones you mentioned) and minimal to negligible on others. Still, the WOT and tax cuts are extremely important issues, and reason alone to vote for Bush. I'm an advocate of attempting to make the GOP less nanny-statish from the inside rather than "teaching them a lesson" (which never works anyway) from the outside (by voting for another party/candidate).

[alrea]

This is another example of the governing class accumulating power at the expense of the rest of us.

understand that

[spodefly]

I don't disagree with much of what you say here, but I think you are a little hard on the Republican-oriented voters and pols. The Dems are no better (or worse.) It doesn't matter which party is in charge in DC ... the scope, scale, and trajectory of the federal government is the same.

I have said it before in several posts. Voting for the lesser of 2 evils is the curse of a damned culture. And that is exactly what we do every election. Principles have little to do with who we choose. The most recent election in California is a great example of this. The call to "be pragmatic and vote for Arny because McClintock doesn't have a chance" was the predominate idée fixe here on FR.

The disparity in intelligence you refer to is unchangeable, however. And if this is the force that drives the rulers and the ruled, then there is not much that can be done about it. The stupid people are breeding faster than anyone else, and we are importing them legally and illegally by the millions every year. Those of us neither inclined to rule or be ruled have little choice but to keep the powder dry, and pray that the dream that founded this country are sufficiently powerful to enable a rebirth. One way or the other.