[Southack]

"But a mere statute can make the point that Congress controls the federal judiciary's purview. Congressman Todd Akin's bill to strip the federal judiciary of jurisdiction over the Pledge of Allegiance has the votes to pass the House, and has a powerful Senate sponsor in Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch. It should be high on the Republican agenda."

Blah, blah, blah, Bush delivered on strong national defense, blah, blah, blah, Bush delivered on taxes, blah, blah, blah, Bush delivered on conservative judges, blah, blah, blah, Bush has to show Presidential leadership, blah, blah, blah, Bush has to bear down on spending, blah, blah blah, the answer to all of Bush's defenciencies is to put the Pledge of Allegiance bill **high** on the list of Republican priorities.

...And people wonder why NRO isn't taken very seriously anymore.

[Southack]

Our Private Bedrooms

"The high court's 6-3 decision overturned not only the Texas statute but apparently swept away laws in a dozen other states that ban oral and anal sex for everyone, or for homosexuals in particular."

*Why* should Conservatives despair?

The Supreme Court just ruled that *government* doesn't have the Constitutional authority to ban, tax, or regulate certain activities inside our private bedrooms.

Isn't that what Conservatives want: more restrictions on *government* authority?

Frankly, leftists can cheer and conservatives can jeer or despair, but I'd call this ruling a stealth victory for reigning in the power and scope of the federal government.

The precedent set in this case could *easily* be applied to a number of other areas in which government should be prohibited from regulating.

How can the government justify regulating my love of guns in my bedroom now, for instance?!

posted on 06/26/2003 9:02 PM EDT by Southack