Posted on 09/27/2007 11:13:55 AM PDT by jmeagan
CHICAGO - Late on a balmy Friday night in Wicker Park, a gentrifying neighborhood just northwest of the Loop, a small tribe of 20-somethings gathers outside a corner bar. Their leader, a petite, energetic 25-year-old named Meghann Walker, hands out leaflets to people heading inside.
"Do you guys know Ron Paul is going to be in town tomorrow?" Walker asks a short-haired young woman in jeans and flip-flops. "There'll be a lot of good people there, that's for sure."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Whatever, troll.
The Constitution also says that Congress is empowered to make laws necessary and proper for carrying such powers out.
Moreover Congress is authorized to defend the nation and enact all laws necessary and proper to that end as well.
One Constitutional question might be: what if a patent conflicts with national security?
Another might be: what if patents are not promoting science and useful arts, but impeding them?
Is the end that Congress is authorized to attain - "the promotion of the progress of the sciences and useful arts" trumped by the means, namely copyrights and patents?
Well there is the third of the post from Paul supporters.
Thank God Americans of yesterday did not tolerate these nut-job ideas!
Nice to be on the same side of this issue with you. How about Americans amend the Constitution to allow the things we want the government to do, that are not currently provided for with a reasonable reading of the Constituion, and with a serious debate on principles and pragmatic considerations, all nice and neat and legal and respectful of the Constitution, and respectful of our brief flirtation in this country with limited government before we just chucked principle and the Constitution in the dust bin for the sake of expediency!
You'd rather the public treasury be the private playground of the private Federal Reserve Bank?
...abandon Israel...
This is ludicrous.We've been holding the Israelis back.If we were to pull out of the middle east and let the world know that it must straighten out it's own problems,the attacks in Israel would stop forthwith.Those Arabs would know that they are now dealing with the Israelis without the US to interfere.
It seems ludicrous to me to suggest that constitutional authority for NASA cannot be found solely in national defense, even if the original legislation founding NASA does not site it.
But we’re dealing with nuts who believe the Air Force is unconstitutional because the Constitution did not foresee and specifically mention flying machines.
The question is whether the amendment process is necessary for these measures or whether there already exists constitutional warrant.
You seem to imply that an Air Force in the absence of an amendment is unconstitutional.
It obviously is eminently constitutional - so I'm not sure what interpretive criteria you are operating under.
How DARE you have the temerity to question our Truth with your pathetic facts...
Ron Paul will inform you what the Constitution says, and what it doesn’t say, when Ron Paul is in the mood to do so!
Got that?
(chuckle)
The level of discourse I've come to expect from the hysterical.
Yeah I remember hearing you squealing back in '82 when Reagan cut and ran from Beirut!
Damn it Wideawake, you beat me to it.. :->
What good is opening a door if someone else jumps to it first..
The “entire sentence” was not posted.
RuPaul (the real one, not Ron) is more of a man than most of the candidates running. Duncan Hunter is not one of those, of course. :-)
Yes, common enemies can unite people. However, you have to reconcile that with the fact that we haven’t had a lot of problems with the Muslims raised in the US.
I would say that when you need to take that many steps to justify spending under a document that is meant to define a limited Federal power (the Constitution) then you need an Amendment. That is not the way we’ve operated for approximately a hundred years, we’ve ignored reasonableness in our reading of the Constitution, and ignored the Amendment process when we wanted to expand the Federal government. But look at the bloated monstrosity of a government it has given us and ask yourself if you want to continue the tradition of sophistry in Constitutional reasoning.
Im watching a nasa-sponsored television program about space on PBS, coincidentally. It’s very interesting and informative.
So I guess NASA’s been doing other things besides sending “junk into space,” ... like monitering weather patterns, using powerful telescopes to better understand the forces of our universe, testing new propulsion systems and aircraft, funding universities and scholarships in science and math...
yep, completely useless, just sending junk into space...
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