Politics

Democrats have been blaming the recent price increases on speculators betting that the price of oil will go up.  If their premise is true, then increasing the supply of oil will cause those betting on prices going up will lose lots of money.

Drilling and increasing the oil supply is the best way to bankrupt “those evil speculators”!  It will also help the rest of us who have to drive to work.  Unless the Democrats in Congress get an earful at home on their summer vacation, I don’t expect that to happen.

Today the Supreme Court ruled that a Louisiana law providing the death penalty for people rape children.  It used the 8th Amendment as its justification.  But what does the 8th Amendment really say?

“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”

Note the amendment says “cruel and unusual punishments” not “cruel or unusual punishments”.  In order to violate the 8th Amendment a punishment must be both “cruel and unusual” not “cruel or unusual”.

The real problem with the court ruling is that the concept of “judicial review” violates the Constitution. “Judicial review” is nowhere to be found in the Constitution.  It is an authority created by the Supreme Court in the 1803.

“Judicial review” makes dictators of the majority of the Supreme Court.  They can make laws just by dictating them.

Remember the old Sunday School Song about “the wise man who built his house upon the rock” and “the foolish man who built his house upon the sand”?

I’ll skip the spiritual meaning of the song for now and just comment the simple physical meaning.  “The foolish man” was building along the river where common sense would tell you that sooner or later it was going to flood.

We need to have government stop subsidizing bad decisions!  Common sense tells us that if you subsidize something you get more of it.

Most of what people do not like about court rulings comes from the concept of “judicial review”.

The main problem with the concept of “judicial review” is that it is extra-Constitutional.  It does not exist in the Constitution.  The Supreme Court made it up in the early 1800’s.  It was never added to the Constitution through the process outlined in Article V.

The Constitution does not give the courts the authority to review laws or give rights.  The courts only have Constitutional authority to interpret what laws apply in specific instances.  They are not Super-Legislatures.  Only Legislatures can create laws.

“Justices” Anthony Kennedy, John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg should be impeached for treason.

Article II, Section. 3, Paragraph 1 of the Constitution defines treason.

“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”

Today the “Justices” created new judicial rights for unlawful combatants.  The Geneva Conventions only require a military tribunal (3 officers) to determine if someone is an unlawful combatant.  The punishment for being an unlawful combatant is execution.  There is no ratified requirement to allow appeals.  The “Justices” have given “them Aid and Comfort”.

Let the impeachments begin!

I had hoped the the Democrat Party would uphold the principal of “one man, one vote” when seating the Florida and Michigan delegations.

The legislatures in Michigan and Florida passed laws to fund primaries and set their dates.  The people voted according to those laws.  The voters did nothing wrong, so punishing them is unjust.

The next time Florida and Michigan should include clauses to make it a felony for party leaders not to fully count votes and to cheat the voters out of delegates.

As private organizations the Democrat and Republican parties have the right to create rules for their organizations.

However, they do not have the right to tell state legislatures what to do nor penalize the voters of states who follow the laws of the state the reside in.

How can the parties expect the states to pay for conducting their primaries without the states having any say in the timing of what they are paying for?

Only in Nazi Germany and Communist countries did “the party” get to tell the government what to do.

Also, whatever happened to the principle of “one man, one vote”? How can the parties say that votes don’t count or they are worth only half as much as normal?

When a party says my vote doesn’t count because of something beyond my control, they maybe I should pick another party in November!

Barak Obama is talking like Jimmy Carter.

Republicans are acting like Democrats trying to get reelected.

Lord help us!

1. The Constitution is:

a. “a living breathing document.”

b. “a contract between people and their government.”

2. Where do judges get the authority to strike down laws?

a. From the Constitution.

b. It was made up during the 1820’s.

3. Where is the only legitimate authority to change the Constitution?

a. The Fifth Amendment.

b. Article V of the Constitution.

We have caused the high oil prices.

We make it impossible to drill for oil in Alaska or off shore reducing supply.

We restrict refineries to hurricane areas on the Gulf Coast reducing the supply of refined oil products.

We have devalued our dollar which makes oil priced in international markets more expensive.