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FR is a conservative site. We are not one or the other, we are both fiscally AND socially conservative.

FR is Pro-God, Pro-family, pro-liberty, pro-constitution, pro-capitalism, pro-defense, pro-small (constitutionally limited) government and pro-constitutionally limited taxing and spending, etc.

I believe the federal government should be stripped down to only those functions enumerated and authorized for it in the constitution. If we truly need a new department or function in the federal government, then a constitutional amendment should be proposed, debated, enacted and ratified first. And as Americans will reject most proposed amendments out of hand, that would automatically prohibit all of the unconstitutional socialist clap trap that the liberals/progressives/socialists et al have either legislated in or unconstitutionally adjudicated in via the liberal activist judiciary.

The Founding Fathers knew what they were doing. We need to get back to original intent.

Think about it.

"FR is Pro-God"

Jim... I am Pro-God and that was one of the things that attracted me to to this site.

However, I personally find it offensive that you let post like 15,062 stand unchallenged.

This is highly offensive to me as a Christian that one's faith in God is challenged... in such a flip and casual way on this board.

I also find it offensive that one individual is left to cast their verdict of salvation of others on the site.

I know that one could question the intent of the poster, but the same graphic has been thrown around in a similar manner on other threads.

I may be overly sensitive about this issue, but I don't believe that I'm more sensitive than others that have been offended in other areas in the last couple of days.

"And as Americans will reject most proposed amendments out of hand, that would automatically prohibit all of the unconstitutional socialist clap trap that the liberals/progressives/socialists et al have either legislated in or unconstitutionally adjudicated in via the liberal activist judiciary."

I absolutely agree with you Jim. Unfortunately, the citizens have never had a direct voice in the amendment process. Would the IRS exist today if states had been required to poll their citizens first and cast their state lot on ratification according to the results? I think not. The next amendment to the constitution should require such a process.

For now, Americans are at the mercy of sharks. These are political parties and hacks that know full well they control the destiny of our nation so long as they control government at the state and federal levels to impose their will.

One of the original Supreme Court Justices (I've forgotten which one) stated there was another means of the constitution being amended although not stipulated in the constitution. He wrote that this other means could occur when citizens forced an amendment upon the elected, and thus the government with a constitutional amendment.

We've yet to see such a day, and truthfully may never as the citizenry is too accepting of letting the sharks dictate.

>>If we truly need a new department or function in the federal government, then a constitutional amendment should be proposed, debated, enacted and ratified first. And as Americans will reject most proposed amendments out of hand,<<

One of the biggest challenges we face is the prevailing attitude that the constitution can be changed by declaring the original intent archaic or reinterpreted because the procedure to actually change the constitution is hard.

Its supposed to be hard to change the constitution because its supposed to be hard to take away our rights or to grow the government into new areas.

We are so far behind now that court-creep has kept the states from having to deal with tough issues because they rely on the supreme court to simply expand the federal government a bit more for each tough issue. We’re in a pickle. How do you re-establish proper constitutional limits on the Federal government while getting all the states to step up to ideas like equal rights but no special rights?

Darned if I know.