The Patriot Post ~ “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” –Thomas Jefferson Employers added 88,000 jobs in March, according to the latest unemployment report from the Labor Department. That’s down from the 196,000/month average over the last six months. Yet […]
By Alan Caruba ~ An America that abandons thousands of years of tradition and common sense is an America that has set itself firmly on a path toward decline. That is the central issue of gay marriage that the Supreme Court will struggle to determine. A similar experience in social engineering gave us the federal […]
By Ryan T Anderson ~ Scholars have filed more than 50 amicus briefs with the Supreme Court urging it to uphold California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). While the media seems intent on ignoring these briefs and hyping the briefs on the other side, the sheer number and quality of […]
The Patriot Post ~ “The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families.” –John Adams The Supreme Court is set to hear a challenge against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a statute passed by Congress in 1996 to protect marriage (i.e., to define it as a contract between one man and one […]
The Patriot Post ~ “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.” –Thomas Jefferson The dust had barely settled from Tuesday’s election before attention turned, as it should, to […]
Join our Patriot Ranks and FIGHT! By Mark Alexander “There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.” –Peter Muhlenberg (1776) In October of 1941, amid the darkest of days […]
Today we take a look at several big rulings handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court. These include the travesty of a decision upholding ObamaCare, the assault on the sovereign state of Arizona, the ever-evolving definition of “cruel and unusual punishment” with regard to the sentencing of minors, and campaign cash in Montana. The […]
By Alan Caruba ~ Following the Obamacare decision, The Heartland Institute’s Maureen Martin, a Senior Fellow for Legal Affairs, said, “Today’s decision will go down in infamy. It marks the moment when we all lost our freedom because the Supreme Court drew a road map to guide those dedicated to imposing a totalitarian, statist government […]
By Lachlan Markay ~ Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that Obamacare’s health insurance mandate is in fact a tax levied on those who do not purchase insurance, Senate Republicans will look to repeal the full law through the budget reconciliation process. Reconciliation was used to push Obamacare through the Senate in 2009. Generally […]
The Foundation “Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be […]
And now for some cartoons
The Foundation “Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected.” –Joseph Story Political Futures “Last Thursday was a bust, at least as far as the two most anticipated cases before the Supreme Court this term. [We got] a ruling on one of them […]
The Patriot Post Digest “Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.” –John Adams Since at least April, the economic “recovery,” such as it was, has nearly ground to a halt. But Barack Obama doesn’t want to talk about that. Instead, his politically adept administration is working overtime to come up with as […]
By ALGNewsNetwork ~ ALG Counsel Nathan Mehrens explains the decision that could be made by the Supreme Court regarding the legality of ObamaCare. Reporter Frank McCaffrey has the story on the coming battle. License: Standard YouTube License
The Patriot Post Digest The Foundation “There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” –James Madison Government & Politics Catholics Continue to Battle Obama for Religious Liberty The week began with a senator attempting […]
By Mark Alexander SCOTUS and Constitutional Authority “No legislative act … contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.” –Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78 (1787) Last week, seeing that his signature legislative achievement was in jeopardy, Barack Hussein Obama fired a shot across the bow of the Supreme Court as it considered the constitutionality […]
The Patriot Post Chronicle The Foundation “The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them […]
Easter Fairness Where the Wild Obamas Are You won’t believe the crazy pictures Of Obama reading “Where The Wild Things Are”: Read More »
The Patriot Post Brief The Foundation “An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.” […]
By Frank Salvato ~ The furor surrounding President Obama’s recent comments about the authority of the United States Supreme Court to overturn enacted legislation brought consternation from many a constitutional scholar as well as at least three federal appeals court judges from the Fifth Circuit, who demanded a clarification from Attorney General Eric Holder. To […]
The Patriot Post Chronicle The Foundation “The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves […]
The Patriot Post Brief The Foundation “In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example … of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most […]
The Patriot Post Digest The Foundation “The instruments, by which [government] must act, are either the AUTHORITY of the Laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; … and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government, there is an end to LIBERTY.” –Alexander Hamilton Government & Politics ObamaCare […]
The Patriot Post Chronicle The Foundation “A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.” –James Madison Editorial Exegesis “A conversation between President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was caught […]
American Minute
Annie Apple
Carl
Ditzy Dee
Doc'
Grumpy Old Man
marlin6
mjmotley
Aussie
papundits
Guest Contributor
patpacer
Joe from PA
sosUSA
steevesna
T Lee Humphrey
TonyfromOz
Turtle
April 5, 2013 by papundits
1