2010: The Year They Came for the Constitution
I nearly spit out my coffee while reading a New York Times post-election day column titled “Tea Party Rooted in Religious Fervor for Constitution.” One nearly had to pity the Gray Lady’s desperation in running the column.
Oh, my! These rough-around-the-edges provincials have gone and pulled off the biggest electoral tsunami since 1938 by running around touting the wonders of the U.S. Constitution and flagellating Democrats for running afoul of it. Oh, what to do? Why, frame these ignorant upstarts with the tar brush of religious fundamentalism, of course. That always works.
What a load of pitiful poppycock.
Every American who has the educational attainment of fourth grade civics understands that the U.S. Constitution is the very document to which every single elected federal official must swear a fealty oath. Every American past the fourth grade also knows that the entire armed forces of the United States serves to protect and defend that very document: not a president, not even the people, but the U.S. Constitution. We don’t call it the “supreme law of the land” for nothing, folks.
What the New York Times and everyone else associated with the know-nothing media of the left fails to see is that 2010 is already widely known as the year the proverbial “they” came for the Constitution. It was the ninnies of the 111th Congress, led by Pelosi and Reid, that openly trashed our Constitution. It was the 111th Congress, whose flagrant disregard for the limits on their power lit the fires of Tea Parties all across the land.
And sentient Americans who follow politics with even a modicum of scrutiny would think that Democrat pols, who’ve been around a long, long, long time, would at least know enough not to mock the U.S. Constitution in the glare of a rolling video camera or in front of meat-hungry press mongrels.
But, no. Time after time, when asked about the constitutionality of their congressional machinations, Democrat legends had a never-ending outbreak of foot-in-mouth disease.
No human being could possibly ascertain whether a bill could be considered constitutional if he or she had never even read the bill. Yet, over and over again, Democrat Congress members were caught on tape saying exactly that — that they had not even read the bills they were voting on.
This despicable lackadaisical attitude on the part of our lawmakers came into perfect focus the day a giddy-with-power Nancy Pelosi met with reporters just after she had performed the legislative-blitzkrieg passage of ObamaCare. Still flush with the thrill of pyrrhic victory, Speaker Pelosi was asked whether the bill, especially the individual mandate, was constitutional. Her response will be remembered in constitutional infamy: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”
Yes, Ms. Pelosi, the U.S. Constitution is serious enough for you to have sworn an actual oath to uphold it.
Ms. Pelosi may disagree with some as to whether the power to mandate all American citizens to buy a product is conferred on the federal government by the Constitution, but to behave as though this is not a matter for serious concern is pure, unbridled, imperious arrogance. Yes, Ms. Pelosi, the American people still regard the U.S. Constitution as the “supreme law of the land.” Such mocking condescension will be remembered long after the click-click of Madam Speaker’s Guccis are no longer heard on the floors of the U.S. Capitol.
As if it were even possible, Representative Pete Stark then one-upped Madam Pelosi’s constitutional nonchalance. When a valiant citizen queried Representative Stark as to where in the Constitution he and his fellow Democrats had found the legal authority to pass the health care bill, he retorted that “the federal government can do most anything in this country.” Actually, the U.S. Constitution lists quite a number of things that federal government cannot do, individual rights it cannot infringe.
And anyone who thinks otherwise is simply not fit to serve in the United States government — even as a pencil-pushing clerk.
AMEN! Time to pay the Piper (‘s mom;)!
Nice article Kyle-Anne. But, the Democrat Party has severely wounded the Constitution, and has put in place mercenaries to help make it less operational. From the lowest level clerk at the DMV, to the very judges at the Supreme Court, they have their ‘jihad’ against “We (were) The People” in progress.
AND YOU KNOW IT.
DVH seems wrong to me. If the Constitution is working, how come blatantly unConstitutional laws and Sup Ct decisions have been foisted on us since the 1930s, at least. How can Justices discuss the Constitutionalality of the death penalty when it’s mentioned specifically several times in the document? If the Constitution is working why are they withholding money from our paychecks for FICA every month? How can the govt be sending FEMA funds to Louisisana and Mississippi? How are affirmative-action programs in govt hiring, promotion, and retention possible?
As you have done in the past just blame the Catholics.
welcome to africa …looks like just after mugabe was elected. Rhodesian was a strong rich country. now it is one of the most corrupt failed states in the entire world. just a glimpse of what can happen.
..south africa is mirroring that path and so is the united states of america.
Thanks for a good reminder Kyle-Anne. All of those who most need to read this will in fact turn a blind eye. The USA has become a country of ignorant, apathetic, dependent, spoiled brats. In other words the citizens will get what the politicians decide. And the politicians will vote whichever way that will increase an ignorant, dependent, Democrat voting base. The average citizen can be jailed for running a stop sign, or stealing a loaf of bread but Charlie Rangel et al gets barely a slap on the wrist for tax and ethic crimes. Has it not already been demonstrated that congress will do damn well what it pleases and essentially spit on the Constitution. Oh by the way, most of the “Tyrants” are still in congress.
Ah, the arrogance of their overreach…how far will the liberal democrats and MSM go to respin the results of the 2010 election and prop up their messiah? JournOlist appears to be alive and well (your previous column), although a bit muted. Can Obama win without ACORN, widespread voter fraud and financial support from overseas?
In 2010, states and citizens began fighting back. Arizona’s immigration law passed because the federal government refused to do its job, soon to be replicated in other states. The legal challenges from many states to Obama(not)Care. The increasing turnout for Tea Party events and the rally hosted by Beck in D.C. The enthusiasm for candidates who pledged to serve their constituents and not the out-of-touch party leaders. The pendulum is swinging back. America bows to no one. America needs a leader not a reader.
The only question I have is why did it take them this long?
Consider the list of things they have destroyed or discredited, or are trying to destroy or discredit to achieve their dream of absolute power:
Families, Christianity, males, American traditions, the country, unborn children, free enterprise, responsibility, initiative, work.
They hold nothing sacred, other then their own self interest.
None of it is random, but deadly deliberate. Don’t doubt that they have postulated and gamed out all of these battles for decades in their university enclaves. It started at least 60 years ago, perhaps as long ago as Woodrow Wilson.
They know that they have to break down a culture before they can dominate it and loot the country.
proreason:
“They know that they have to break down a culture before they can dominate it and loot the country.”
“they have”. Don’t you mean they had? I think I saw the Drum Major just pass by.
proreason – The whole thing is straight out of the Communist Manifesto and it’s intellectual descendants. It has been going on for more than a century.
The only way to defeat the Internationalists is down a quite bloody road, unfortunately.
The assault on the Constitution began with Teddy Roosevelt over a century ago. Woodrow Wilson was actually our first “American dictator.” He imprisoned dissidents and actually said out loud that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were old, meaningless documents. The progressives have been plotting and planning their takeover of the U.S. for over a hundred years, and they finally have the radical in the White House that they have longed for all those years. The radical knows that he can’t get all he wants through normal legislative processes, so he has gone around the Constitution and the Congress, using czars, executive orders, and allowing various agencies to impose draconian regulations. Look what the EPA is presently up to–and the Labor department and the Transportation department (look up Ray LaHood). We are in a battle to save our Republic. Many people are waking up, but I’m afraid that the less-educated people who are on the public dole (the bottom 50% of Americans pay only 3% of the taxes) will negate my vote for financial sobriety and sanity and common sense. We must get rid of the radical-in-chief and his henchmen (Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, Durbin, Waxman, Feinstein, Boxer, Waters, Rangel, Weiner, Conyers, Stark–the list goes on and on) If we don’t get rid of these traitorous people, the U.S.A. will be finished as a free country.
… and add to the list of objectives the removal of the electoral college system, as to allow the newly pumped in & amnistied citizenry inflict their views (or rather incompetence) upon the entire country – a N. American version of PRI (Democrats) being the result -
The results of California elections should frightened Dakota, Alaska, Maine or Colorado – yet, since I see the “open-minded” manner the 14th. and the SB 1070 are regarded in the country, I must say that the electoral college will be removed in less than 10 years -
Decadence -
Lovely article, and happy new year to you Anne
“Every American who has the educational attainment of fourth grade civics knows…”
Well, my friend, the problem is, most 4th graders decidely DONT know what the Constitution is…neither do most 8th graders, or most college freshman for that matter. Its been 2 generations since that was common knowledge among (public) school children.
They have all been indoctrinated by the Leftists in Govenment schools, and we are doomed….
I weep inside for the bright, good natured 12 year old girl who lives across the street, (and is in the “gifted” program at the local school) when she spouts off the latest P/C nonsense by rote:
“Why do we celebrate Columbus day, all he did was bring slavery and disease to the local population…it shouldn be a holiday, it should be a day of mourning”
“The Arizona law is just racist, that governor should be in jail on civil rights charges”
“I like Christmas, but that manger display by the Fire Station is actually illegal, you know”
“Oh my god, we’d be dead if Sarah Palin ever got elected, she is SOOOOO stupid it scares me”
My original Revolutionary era 1763 Charleville musket hanging over our fireplace illicits:
“are you allowed to do that?!”
We of course should also BAN nuclear power because it destroys the enironment, BAN the use of coal because its dirty and of course outlaw hunting because its violent and primative, we dont “need to” for food anymore.
All of these are relatively “local” topics in the semi-rural Delaware valley PA area where we live in: There are Nuke plants in Limreck and Harrisburg, there is a controlled dear kill in the state park most winters, we are a hunting and concealed carry state…all the buzz words and liberal newspaper coverage of these “topics” is fodder for classroom “awareness” and magically they all form “their own opinions” that fall on the far left.
Its not my place to tell her that she, and her teachers, are so tragically wrong in their beliefs…That is a rudeness I would not tolerate from some neighbor trying to influence MY kid, so I say nothing too extreme in countering her regurgitated nonsense.
But I have to wonder what kind of government would she vote for in a few years…what concepts “make sense” to her, and I’m saddened that the’s not outraged at how she’s being manipulated by a Leftist Teachers union…
Who’s average salary $93,000, no health care contributions, and full tax funded pensions instead of a self funded 401Ks
Until we get the schools back (and we wont)its all lost.
How did this precious little Marxist gem get into your living room? Did she assume that your property is forfeit due to your political ideology and just walk in? Or did you, for some reason, invite said demon spawn’s spawners into your house for some type of neighborly get together? If there was a local Commissar’s office, she surely would have stopped by to report you. I’m sure your old muzzle loader was a topic of conversation in one of her “how do you feel” MENSA seminars. Had someone mistakenly allowed such a child into my home, and she made such a comment about an old rife, I would have brought out my AR-15 and asked, “how about this one, little girl?”
Right.
Americans invited these predators into their homes. Sold with free “GIFTS” to buy their products. Just as FDR and the Western Allies agreed to the “gift” of Eastern Europe and Germany to Stalin’s KNOWN PRISON STATE. AS BONUS, the establishment of the UN clone of Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations. Relinquishing INDEPENDENCE of the USA to a group UNACCOUNTABLE to the Americans except through politicians.
FDR and his manipulations of the US Constitution as truly effective measure to gull American citizens to cede Rights to the central government as model for Obama and his predators to rule by Commissariate.
The Left have NOT YET censored entirely the accounts of mass murders to assure accession to permanent power for the predators. Or the development of their power in the past century until the prison walls were finally torn down. Encouraged by American President Ronald Reagan with his ally Margaret Thatcher. Neither of them “Democrat”.
FDR used a similar economic “crisis” as base for HOPE from his policies, as Obama on that old premise of never give a sucker an even break.
The story of the USA since the 1930s written and propagated by groups in ALL civic institutions of law, education, church, military, government and propaganda. Who write their story of this present “Democratic” Administration. Groups allied, whose models are ANTI-CAPITALIST /ANTI-AMERICAN. Beginning in earnest with Camelot/ JF Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the “New Age” and the “revolution of the 1960s”. Just after the appearance of a “New Star in The East” Sputnik.
The triumphant culmination in the “New Kennedy”, now dubbed the “Messiah”. By these groups who deride Judeo-Christianity AND AMERICA / AMERICANS. Caution of policy from members of the “Democratic” Party of the USA who have, with the RINO allies, stolen Right after Right from Americans seems reasonable if Americans value their rights.
They’re called RIGHTS for a reason. Check the Declaration of Independence to find what that word means in the USA. And the Constitution which is the legal protection of those RIGHTS in the guardianship of Congress and Court.
It remains to be seen whether free Americans, now they see the depredations of these “gift-givers ” to their homes and property, have will to CHANGE their homes back into those of the shining beacon on the hill and the last best HOPE of mankind.
You are exactly correct about our schools. The teacher’s unions are the worst problem in this country. Not for their overblown salaries and crippling pensions. Not because they funnel 100 of millions of dollars into pREgressives’ campaigns to continue their vile circle jerk.
They are(have) destroyed the very foundations of our country with their continual degradation of the principles that made America the greatest country in history. The destruction of American Exceptionalism isn’t enough for these looters. Our children are being denied basic math and science skills. Oh we’re number 1 in self esteem but near the bottom in essential subjects. Make them learn that Johnny has Two daddies is O-Key Doh-Key, that CO2 is a poison that’s killing the planet and how to put condoms on bananas, yeah that’s the ticket.
Need proof? There is no way in the world a well educated populace would have doe anything but laugh our current President Diapers off the stage. Instead, a malignant narcissist with not a whit of credentials is elected President. Plus after 2 years of failure, over 45% of the population have been reported to still support this fraud!!! Cripes, what the hell does he have to do for everyone to see incompetence writ large?
Want a remedy? In a word, vouchers. pREgressives always tell us what they fear most. Look at the vilification Sarah gets. You want to see teacher’s unions with their hair on fire? You want to see several hundred million dollars of lies and distortions aired? try and get a voucher plan passed in your state.
pREgressives know they must control what our young minds are taught. I too weep when I talk to children of my friends. They know nothing of our founding and the great men who gave us this country and our Constitution.
Kyle-Anne, my warmest wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year for you and your family.
Leftists scoff at the Constitution because when your mindset is to tear down the system and tear up that annoying piece of parchment…anyone who doesn’t share the sentiment, is an “enemy”. And they will circumvent it
Obama knows he has only so many years to change the country. In his first two, he achieved much: the first stimulus, Obamacare, and financial regulation. For the next two, however, the Republican House will prevent any repetition of that. Obama’s agenda will therefore have to be advanced by the more subterranean means of rule-by-regulation.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/256104/government-regulation-charles-krauthammer
Getting ready to dash out the door to play Mother Teresa to the sick at the hospital on the evening shift. What Would Mother Teresa Do? ~ just barely gets me thru the shift. I pray that 2011 brings in changes that will make me WANT to go to work. I will give them one more year. God bless America and its CONSTITUTION:) Happy hope~full New Year to all!
“Recall 2010 as the year progressives went after the Constitution …”
I think the savaging of the Constitution began around 1789 and both (all) parties and those who aided and abetted are guilty.
Happy New Year 2011 regardless …
Why spit out your coffee? Read some American history. It’s been clear since the days of Wilson and Lippman that the “brights” (or is that “blights?”) have regarded themselves as superior to law, the Constitution, and Law. They alone were the Brain Trust and Best & Brightest who could govern selflessly in every subject’s interest.
The brights shall rule without restraint; their will shall be the whole of the law. This is the fuhrer principal devolved into a committee or as it is more commonly called, a politburo.
We write, we speak, we march, and we even vote. Some of us make it into office, others into Judgeships. Some few even manage to survive in ideals, as teachers teaching true American history, civics and ethos.
We are a majority, in fact and in spirit. Yet it takes, according to scholars of siege warfare, a six to one ration in forces to attack a fortified castle. Not only do they have the castle(s) but they also have kidnapped and brainwashed most of our young. We can bring some of those back, but not undamaged.
This is the situation at the turn of the Gregorian Calendar year 2010 into 2012. We are losing.
May G-d grant us strength, and may we be bold. Bolder than words, for now words have to be made solid, and actions become steel, for the next year rises up like a sinister icy fog of great difficulties and confusions.
[...] We are a majority, in fact and in spirit. [...]
Yes, a majority, yret unfortunate a defeated one –
The 2010 elections were a victory, yet it was just a battle – and I am afraid that this majority is outmanoevered by the system, i.e. the vast complicity of MSM, judiciary, education system(s), etc -
In long run (which is not thast far away) the conservative movememt of the USA will be defeated by the larger liberal gangrene -
It is a sad state of affairs when the words on George Carlin’s list of “Seven Dirty Words” are routinely posted without a second thought and yet God is written as ‘G-d’ as not to offend!!! Please don’t fall for the trap of political correctness! If you control the language, you control thought! Don’t let God be that easily removed from the minds of the Nation as a whole! BvwReux, this is not aimed specifically at you but just a reminder to all of us. Likewise, it does not only apply to God but to anything we wish to express. We must not let our thoughts be controlled! If our minds are not free then how can we call ourselve free?
For all the Democrats and at least half the Republicans in Congress, their oath to the Constitution is meaningless – because they have no honor and all their words are meaningless.
Interesting article. Today’s paper has a related story that when Congress reconvenes next week, the new House Republican majority will read the Constitution on the floor as the first matter of business. All bills to be submitted must have a reference to what part of the Constitution gives the authority.
Equally interesting is how the new Representatives wanting such references will deal with 221 years of constitutional law and many hundreds of court decisions. The Constitution is not a static document, but is a living and ever dynamic document. In post #11, I wouldn’t use the same wording that Tim used (“savaging”). But I think he is making a similar point.
I also wonder how the self-identified “social conservative” crowd; those who want big government intervention in elements of citizens’ personal lives; will deal with Amendments III and IV in the Bill of Rights and their implied rights to privacy.
Of course, that assumes that the SoCons are paying attention; as one can’t pick and choose which parts of the Constitution one will follow. In for it all, or not at all. No matter what, 2011 will be an interesting year in so many ways.
So easy to fisk:
Where does it say so in either the document itself or in legal decisions? Cites please.
No, all powers are enumerated. There are no rights to privacy implied. It is a mistake to assume there is an implied right to privacy and that it allows abortion among other abominations.
StevB = Lefty in RINO clothing.
Steve, in another post on another article, you identify yourself as a “long-time Conservative”. In other posts past, you claim to be something else. Tiresome. Now you denigrate SoCons, who, by definition, are Conservatives.
I’ll take your challenge.
Does privacy trump property rights? Secular marriage is primarily about property rights. Joint ownership, decision-making, resolution of divorces, etc…. This is within the government’s purview. It is defining where the property lines are drawn. You do not have to get a formal legal marriage to be married, but you do no gain the legal benefits without the legal marriage. Gays can marry in their churches, wear wedding bands and call themselves married, but they do not gain the legal benefits of it. 70+% of the voters vote it down every single one of the 35 times they have tried to make it legal… in the most liberal places, too. You got a problem with that process?
Does privacy trump someone’s right to live? You may not kill your children, but where is the line drawn as to when a person is considered your child? At first breath? At first heartbeat? At conception? The government has a right, an obligation, to define when you are entitled to legal protection of your life. We as a society have an obligation to define that.
And we had. In every single one of the 50n States, abortion was illegal, made so through due process of law in each State. It was settled, until 5 justices overstepped their bounds. It has raged as an issue ever since, because those justices violated the Constitution and legislated form the bench. People are justifiably outraged about this. Now, in 4 States, abortion is legal per due process. I disagree with the law, but I do not disagree with the process.
Shall I go into affirmative action, school vouchers, etc…? Social Conservatism fits within the Constitution.
SteveB, and, others who’ve replied: Almost every Bill passed and signed into Law by the 111th Congress was said to be justified by the “…general Welfare…” Clause of the Constitution. However, there’s just one tiny flaw in their crass (and, deliberate) misunderstanding of “The Constitution FOR the United States of America” (proper name, don’t get me started). This (so powerful) justification only appears one place in the Constitution…in the Preamble. Like the Foreword of a Book (which may be about the book, but, is not part of the book), the Preamble is not a part OF the Constitution. If “…general Welfare…” is not a part OF the Constitution, it cannot be used to justify anything, including a Bill to install Flushable Toilets in the Restrooms of Congress (I don’t really care about their comfort, or, Welfare).
Second, they claim that “Welfare” is singled out because it is Capitalized…not so, the Constitution was written in an age where Capitalization mattered: it is a Noun, therefore it would always be capitalized, no matter where it appears in a sentence.
Their Constitutional justification is based on a false premise, citing a part of the Constitution that is not an actual part of the Constitution. To use this as justification is a blatant and willful act of Tyranny.
For Ragnar D.: you can begin with Marbury v. Madison in 1803 that established the concept of judicial review and interpretation of the Constitution. “SteveB = lefty in RINO clothing.” Use of name-calling serves only to try and distract an audience from the weakness of one’s position.
Marc Malone: “you denigrate SoCons who by definition are conservatives….” Actually, I consider them as religious socialists. “Secular marriage is primarily about property rights….” I thought it started with love. “70% of the voters vote it (gay marriage) down every single one of the 35 times they have tried to make it legal…..” Gay marriage is legal in several states. How do you feel about civil unions?
“We as a society have an obligation to define that (when a person becomes your child). And we had; in every single one of the 50 states, abortion was illegal. It was settled until 5 justices overstepped their bounds…..” Not correct; legal abortion was possible in 20 states, in varying forms, prior to Roe v. Wade.
“Social conservatism fits within the Constitution.” There are elements within the so-called social conservative community that strongly oppose any use of artificial birth control, to give you another example. One is the Catholic Church. Where in the Constitution is found a prohibition on birth control?
Another SCOTUS case; Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965; by a 7-2 vote cited the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 14th amendments as justification to overturn a state law forbidding use of any drug or device to prevent conception in a marital relationship.
“Shall I go into affirmative action, school vouchers….? We may find some agreement on affirmative action as I don’t much care for it. However, the Kennedy and L.B. Johnson executive orders that started affirmative action have some basis in the 14th and 15th amendments. As for school vouchers, I don’t want my tax dollars used to subsidize private or religious schools.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, ALL!
May all your comments and articles be incisive and fruitful.
CHEERS!
>The entire armed forces of the United States
>serves to protect and defend the constitution.
Not quite; Officers take that oath, and use their judgment
as to how to carry it out, against all enemies, foreign and
domestic; Enlisted personnel swear to obey all lawful orders
of their superior officers.
It is only in the wish-fulfillment power-tripping dreams of the
Statists that the military is bound to ‘Just follow orders’.
Numbers 13 and 14, BvwRedux and Old Soldier:
Amen brothers. Ring that bell again and again and again. Just maybe, someone, somewhere. will hear it and react. Although I wouldn’t bet my farm on it. And it would be foolish if you bet yours, in my humble opinion.
But we elected these fools. What does that say about us?
bush came for the Constitution in o7 when he took haevis corpus away in the war on terror. watch theses videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqxmPjB0WSs and this too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8BqvJO5t4k
How many Americans can even explain to you that Constitutional Law applies to the government — as opposed to Public Law which applies to the people and to corporations?
Excellent point; Please expand. To overcome the echos of the Democrat/Socialist/Communist, self appointed, stepchild media.
1; The Economist asks a rhetorical question about the resemblance between modern U.S. academia and the U.S. auto industry after the bailout. Apparently not realizing that American academia was taken over by the same part of the “enlightened elite’” who now run the U.S. government decades earlier.
2; In modern academia, “political correctness” trumps all. The idea that the system, run by “progressives”, must constantly re-commit itself to stamping out gender or cultural/ethnic “bias” against duly-certified “disadvantaged” groups is the only thing considered important enough to warrant hard-copy notification in an email age. (This means that failure to comply amounts to treason against the system- You Have Been Warned In Writing.)
3; The ability (feigned or otherwise) to achieve (2) will be tested by what amount to “thought police” who have the authority to ruin the careers of anyone deemed insufficiently enthusiastic about same. Other than that, their jobs are little more than sinecures’ (i.e., they don’t actually have to do anything, or indeed even know HOW to do anything).
4; This “philosophy” is prevalent across the spectrum of so-called “liberal arts” on campus. To attain a degree, one merely needs to agree with whatever the (radically-progressive) professor says. To the point that plagiarism, use of “paper mills”, and other unethical techniques of creating publishable papers are authorized, or at least winked at, as long as the professors’ orthodoxy is not challenged in any way whatsoever. And such courses are required for graduation, as much to ensure employment for the professors as to ensure that all students learn to “think the right way” about everything.
5; This lack of scholastic rectitude does not extend to the “hard” sciences (math, engineering, etc.), but only because they are seen as the red-headed b*****d stepchildren on campus. The real power lies in the cloistered halls of the “social sciences”, where all the professors are engaged in turning the place into a “temple of irrelevant logic-chopping”, to quote James Burke (describing the last time this happened in Western academia, just prior to the Catholic/Protestant schism – read “The Day The Universe Changed”, and/or look up “Martin Luther”).
6; As a consequence of the stepchild status of actual sciences, most graduates in same today are not from the U.S.- they are foreign students who come here for the excellence of such education, which is available no where else on Earth at present. The author speculates on what may happen when they go home and start working and/or teaching such subjects there, leaving us with graduate schools full of students who are experts in nothing but being More Politically Correct Than The Person In The Next Office Over. Who designs the bridges and builds the power plants then? (And if they are actually built, who operates them?)
“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”
Dr. Thomas Sowell
17. M. Report
A minor correction- all enlisted personnel do “solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;” then we swear to “obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me”. As a soldier, I remind myself every day that it is the Constitution that I defend-not the hacks in D.C. who seem intent on destroying this glorious document.
#17 I served in the military as an enlisted man and we took a group oath at our swearing in . I believe they still do.
“Every American past the fourth grade also knows that the entire armed forces of the United States serves to protect and defend that very document – not a president, nor even the people – but the U.S. Constitution. We don’t call it the “supreme law of the land” for nothing, folks.”
I doubt every American past fourth grade knows this. In fact, I doubt most Americans know about this, given the state of public schooling. They throw out teaching about the Constitution in order to make room for teaching about alternative lifestyles, and instead of history they teach from watered down “social studies” texts that care more about perception than actual truth.
People need to read the Constitution for themselves – it isn’t very long. If they did they probably would probably vote for “none of the above” in elections, because they are all unqualified. Vapid imbeciles like Obama, Biden, Pelosi and Reid take their oath on the Constitution about as seriously as they take their religion – it’s just something they say, but has no real meaning. They have empty heads and empty hearts to go along with them.
For some real truth about the Constitution, Nullification, and a whole host of other subjects, you should go to Mises.org. I used to think that ALL Libertarians were wacky. Funny what a couple of years with Obummer in the White House can do for one’s attitude.
~What a great day for America~
A wise and humble man reading the Constitution.
Obama/Biden would not have been elected without Pelosi’s illegal tampering with electoral college documents, time to arrest Nancy Pelosi.