Posted on 01/20/2006 6:03:31 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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Resurrecting this thread, in light of Wall Street protests, legalized gay marriage; and a host of other issues that are now manifest in our times.
Thank you for posting that link. Quite powerful! As a baby boomer, I still recall life in the 50s and witnessed the steady decline beginning in the 60s.
Parts of it, yes. But some of them have happened in the 50 years since 1963.
Wonder if I can btt. Its been awhile.
Subsidies combined with government regulation via the bastardization of the commerce clause.
§ 1075 .... A regulation of one may injuriously or beneficially affect the other. But that is not the point in controversy. It is, whether congress has a right to regulate that, which is not committed to it, under a power, which is committed to it, simply because there is, or may be an intimate connexion between the powers. If this were admitted, the enumeration of the powers of congress would be wholly unnecessary and nugatory. Agriculture, colonies, capital, machinery, the wages of labour, the profits of stock, the rents of land, the punctual performance of contracts, and the diffusion of knowledge would all be within the scope of the power; for all of them bear an intimate relation to commerce. The result would be, that the powers of congress would embrace the widest extent of legislative functions, to the utter demolition of all constitutional boundaries between the state and national governments. When duties are laid, not for purposes of revenue, but of retaliation and restriction, to countervail foreign restrictions, they are strictly within the scope of the power, as a regulation of commerce. But when laid to encourage manufactures, they have nothing to do with it. The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states. It is notorious, that, in the convention, an attempt was made to introduce into the constitution a power to encourage manufactures; but it was withheld.
Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution
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Gets posted on FR about once a month where the not-very-bright ooh and aah over it.
While the tools among us fail to see its relevance.
Strategerist was one of the most prolific trolls in FR history.
Why he was permitted to disrupt and chip away at this forum for nearly a decade, I’ll never understand.
I can't say I was all that familiar with him. Not that I recall, anyway.
I know we're going to have differences of opinions - I'll even own up to having a few less popular ones myself. :-)
But it just grates me when I come across someone making a pompous, judgmental post for no reason other than they can. Particularly when they want to start with the 'you're so stupid' implications.
I just avoid threads I think are stupid. Doesn't seem all that difficult to me.
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Almost too bad he got the ZOT, though. I was rather looking forward to his attempted rebuttal of Story's plainly worded passage.
Time to btt this one.
Should be apparent to any sentient human being that Barack Obama is a communist, pure and simple. His father (as in “Dreams from My Father”) was an ardent communist and the son is, too.
It is said that the Devil’s greatest deception is convincing people that he does not exist. The Communist Party’s greatest deception is that it died when the Berlin Wall fell.
BTTT!
Revived after 11 years.
Definitely worth reviewing once again after the damage during this admin. May God bless and protect his children.
Amen, my friend!
Almost there....
Always good to read this and see how far the fiends have come. All internally done, too. No need for any USSR bogey man, all the commiepukes are home grown and fed.
44 done. 45 in process.
PING
The Communist Takeover of America: 45 Declared Goals (Congressional Record, 1963)
Old Thread. Note Date.
Maybe wrong but "Unconstitutionally firing?"
Who foresaw that the FBI would discredit itself? Maybe dismantling it would be a good idea.
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