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Chief Justice William Rehnquist just died!

Posted on 09/03/2005 8:07:24 PM PDT by kcvl

Per CNN...


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To: oceanview
You got it.

John / Billybob
581 posted on 09/03/2005 8:47:18 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (My tagline is on vacation, lying in the hammock with a cold beer.)
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To: DCPatriot
Dan Rather must be going insane not to be the anchor right now

Especially since he just got a 1972 IBM typewriter on e-bay to write his false memos on.

582 posted on 09/03/2005 8:47:24 PM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: wallcrawlr

exactly...
he had one source and went on it with false information


583 posted on 09/03/2005 8:47:27 PM PDT by chrispycsuf (our troops need our support now more than ever)
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To: chrispycsuf

Welcome aboard!


584 posted on 09/03/2005 8:47:32 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: mrobison

initially - what it will be is, A SECRET. we have to get Roberts through first. Bush should simply say that Roberts is going up, deal with that, his mind is focused on the Katrina reconstruction, and he will not pick a replacement and enter that political dogfight while reconstruction from the hurricane is taking place.

that's how I would spin it.


585 posted on 09/03/2005 8:47:37 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: PhiKapMom

do you guys let a new person participate in anything...or do you just accuse them of being a troll


586 posted on 09/03/2005 8:48:06 PM PDT by chrispycsuf (our troops need our support now more than ever)
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To: Republican Red; All

OMG I thinking of same thing i post that on Canteen LOL!

Karl Rove been one busy Republican dude LOL!


587 posted on 09/03/2005 8:48:07 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("Not everybody in, it, for truth, justice, and the American way,"= Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: NormsRevenge

I know its been a wild ride....its effected my sleep and quite frankly my emotions have been stretched also....actually I should go to bed and here I sit, at my keyboard


588 posted on 09/03/2005 8:48:12 PM PDT by apackof2 (In my simple way, I guess you could say I'm living in the BIG TIME)
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To: kcvl

My suggestion for a replacement: Janice Rogers Brown

http://www.neoperspectives.com/janicerogersbrown.htm


The public school system is already so beleaguered by bureaucracy; so cowed by the demands of due process; so overwhelmed with faddish curricula that its educational purpose is almost an afterthought.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown



Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown


Where government advances - and it advances relentlessly - freedom is imperiled, community impoverished, religion marginalized and civilization itself jeopardized.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown



It is my thesis today that the sheer tenacity of the collectivist impulse - whether you call it socialism or communism or altruism - has changed not only the meaning of our words, but the meaning of our Constitution and the character of our people.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown


Where once government was a necessary evil because it protected private property, now private property is a necessary evil because it funds government programs.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown

Private property, already an endangered species in California, is now entirely extinct in San Francisco.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown

We no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it. We demand more. Big government is not just the opiate of the masses. It is the opiate. The drug of choice for multinational corporations and single moms; for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers and militant senior citizens.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown

The quixotic desire to do good, be universally fair and make everybody happy is understandable. Indeed, the majority's zeal is more than a little endearing. There is only one problem with this approach. We are a court.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown

Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown

And most significantly, if we can invoke no ultimate limits on the power of government, a democracy is inevitably transformed into a Kleptocracy - a license to steal, a warrant for oppression.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown

Theft is theft even when the government approves of the thievery. Turning a democracy into a Kleptocracy does not enhance the stature of the thieves; it only diminishes the legitimacy of the government.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown


My grandparents' generation thought being on the government dole was a disgraceful, a blight on the family honor. Today's senior citizens blithely cannibalize their grandchildren because they have a right 'free' stuff as the political system will permit them to extract.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown



Freedom and Democracy are not synonymous. <.> The idea of a constitutional government is deceptively simple: the government cannot legitimately infringe upon our rights, even if the majority votes to do so. <.> Individual liberty cannot be preserved if the majority's will must always triumph.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown


Freedom and Democracy are not synonymous. Indeed, one of the grave errors of American foreign policy is that merely installing the forms of a regime like ours, without its foundation - will automatically lead to freedom, stability, and prosperity.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown

[Natural Law] It provided potent incentive to reflection, the touchtone of existing institutions, the justification for conservatism, as well as revolution.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown


The claim is that a particular perspective serves the general welfare. What is really served is a will to power.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown

In the last 100 years we have let the government buy our birthright with our own tax money.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown

A court of last resort is supposed to do more than resolve individual differences. Such courts ought to be building for the future, providing guidance, structure, stability - instilling confidence in the primacy of the rule of law. But, alas, the decisions of such courts, including my own, seem ever more ad hoc and expedient, perilously adrift on the roiling seas of feckless photo-op compassion and political correctness. And we are, by and large, captives in an intellectual world that is completely antithetical to the kinds of substantial limits an authentic historical interpretation of our constitution would impose. We are committed to doing the right thing. But with only our feelings to guide us, most of the time we cannot figure out what the right thing is.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown



Democracy and capitalism seem to have triumphed. But, appearances can be deceiving. Instead of celebrating capitalism’s virtues, we offer it grudging acceptance, contemptuous tolerance, but only for its capacity to feed the insatiable maw of socialism. We do not conclude that socialism suffers from a fundamental flaw. We conclude instead that its ends are worthy of any sacrifice – including our freedom

- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown



In truth, liberalism’s vaunted tolerance and openness is a lie. In America, at least, liberalism is tolerant only of those concerns to which it is indifferent.

- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown



[T]he courts overcame these alleged limitations on their powers with ridiculous ease. How? By constitutionalizing everything possible, finding constitutional rights which are nowhere mentioned in the Constitution. By taking a few words which are in the Constitution like “due process” and “equal protection” and imbuing them with elaborate and highly implausible etymologies; and by enunciating standards of constitutional review which are not standards at all but rather policy vetoes, i.e., strict scrutiny and the compelling state interest standard.

- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown



Politicians in their eagerness to please and to provide something of value to their constituencies that does not have a price tag are handing out new rights like lollipops in the dentist’s office.

- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown



Something new, called economic rights, began to supplant the old property rights. This change, which occurred with remarkably little fanfare, was staggeringly significant. With the advent of "economic rights," the original meaning of rights was effectively destroyed. These new "rights" imposed obligations, not limits, on the state. It thus became government's job not to protect property but, rather, to regulate and redistribute it. And, the epic proportions of the disaster which has befallen millions of people during the ensuing decades has not altered our fervent commitment to statism.

- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown



The right to express one’s individuality and essential human dignity through the free use of property is just as important as the right to do so through speech, the press, or the free exercise of religion

- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown



Government acts as a giant siphon, extracting wealth, creating privilege and power, and redistributing it.

- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown



In the New Deal/Great Society era, a rule that was the polar opposite of the classical era of American law reigned. A judicial subjectivity whose very purpose was to do away with objective gauges of constitutionality, with universal principles, the better to give the judicial priesthood a free hand to remake the Constitution.

- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown



Curiously, in the current dialectic, the right to keep and bear arms – a right expressly guaranteed by the Bill of Rights – is deemed less fundamental than implicit protections the court purports to find in the penumbras of other express provisions.

- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown



We are heirs to a mind-numbing bureaucracy; subject to a level of legalization that cannot avoid being arbitrary, capricious, and discriminatory. What other outcome is possible in a society in which no adult can wake up, go about their business, and return to their homes without breaking several laws?

- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown


589 posted on 09/03/2005 8:48:16 PM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/janicerogersbrown.htm)
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To: Sonar5

CNN "reporter" on CNN now. He sounds like he's going to cry.


590 posted on 09/03/2005 8:48:18 PM PDT by Libertarian444
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To: AliVeritas
"WEAPONS ARE FREE REPEAT: WEAPONS ARE FREE"

Missile away, splash one!

/jasper

591 posted on 09/03/2005 8:48:18 PM PDT by Jasper ( Craigellachie, Stand Fast!)
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To: kcvl

I just got back from viewing DU, and those idiots are going absolutely nuts. They are calling for a quick impeachment of President Bush for "incompetence" before he can appoint a replacement.

I doubt any of those freaks could or would like to point out that part of the constitution that allows impeachment for "incompetence in the opinion of a bunch of unemployed losers with no hint of a brain between them", but I'm willing to listen in case they can.

And, that language! They must all have matriculated in government schools.


592 posted on 09/03/2005 8:48:34 PM PDT by thelastvirgil (More convinced than ever that the United States Congress is a bigger threat than radical Islamists.)
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To: kcvl
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593 posted on 09/03/2005 8:48:49 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: AliVeritas

Aside from the NASTY content, that website is very poorly designed!


594 posted on 09/03/2005 8:48:53 PM PDT by NYTexan
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To: Darksheare

obvious mistake during the busy breaking news.

chill dude.


595 posted on 09/03/2005 8:48:56 PM PDT by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com)
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To: Darksheare

For what?????


596 posted on 09/03/2005 8:48:57 PM PDT by Jewels1091
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To: oceanview

Maybe O'Connor can stay on until Rehnquist's replacement is confirmed.


597 posted on 09/03/2005 8:49:00 PM PDT by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: Graybeard58; Zacs Mom; MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; Happy2BMe; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; Boazo; ...

ping to unbelieveable craziness:

FROM DU:

'Retake Congress in 2006, impeach Bush and Cheney and use a resignation and appointment strategy to get either Gore or Kerry to be Speaker of the House. One of them can then appoint the other as Vice-President. Then pack the court like Roosevelt tried to. Otherwise, it's fascism or civil war or fascism and civil war.'


598 posted on 09/03/2005 8:49:01 PM PDT by bitt ('But once the shooting starts, a plan is just a guess in a party dress.' Michael Yon)
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To: scottinoc

Three words: Janice Rogers Brown
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DITTO!


599 posted on 09/03/2005 8:49:02 PM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/janicerogersbrown.htm)
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To: Siobhan

Judge Jones is awesome. And so is Judge Clement. The Fifth Circuit has a lot of awesome judges.


600 posted on 09/03/2005 8:49:02 PM PDT by pollyg107
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