Should the Supreme Court determine the Affordable Care Choices Act’s individual health insurance mandate is unconstitutional, the next logical question will be whether it is severable from the overall law. The answer is no, the entire bill must be thrown out. That is not to say the entire bill will be thrown out. In fact, it is unlikely that the Court will have the willpower | Read More »
Last week, President Obama took on the Court, questioning its authority to overturn a validly passed Congressional law. Good for him. For a week now, republicans have feigned outrage at the suggestion that the Court’s opinion wouldn’t remain supreme. Only a few weeks ago, Newt Gingrich was espousing the same sentiments. See here: http://griffinelection.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/newt-gingrich-is-a-friend-to-dred-scott/ And here: http://griffinelection.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/newt-is-right-we-need-to-reel-in-scotus/ These republicans have acted shamefully. It is a | Read More »
It seems that Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), who will likely be the GOP VP nominee, is seeking to introduce his own version of the DREAM Act. It isn’t the bold move we’d like to see from the GOP, but it is a decent start. The problem with this bill is that it will not provide a path forward for citizenship. That in-and-of itself kind of | Read More »
A strange form of communication has arisen on the far left in recent years. It should be stressed that this isn’t the language of any of my democrat friends, this is a fringe movement. Nonetheless, it is exclusively a movement of the left. It is what is known as “glitter bombing” someone. It is the practice of battering someone through an offensive touching. Essentially, if | Read More »
In what will only become a story with a life of its own, the GOP presidential candidate, Mitt Romney is going forward with building a four-story house. That house is being built on a California beach and is being built over a location where Romney already tore down a beautiful home only to build a bigger one in its place. Romney’s new third vacation home | Read More »
The Tenth Amendment is a bit out of fashion these days. It states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” In light of the High Court’s evaluation of President Obama’s signature health care law, it is worth mentioning that the Tenth Amendment should have | Read More »
The country seems to be uniting in it’s condemnation of a local Florida police department’s irresponsible handling of the death of Trayvon Martin. Martin was a 17 year old kid that was simply walking through his neighborhood and was later shot by Neighborhood watchmen, George Zimmerman. Outrageous, right? This is an issue we can all agree on. The people of Florida and around the country | Read More »
In 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency on the support of Hispanic Americans, yet since that date — he has done nothing to lift the demographic. As immigrants to this country, Hispanic Americans are among those with the least amount of opportunities. And through dependency programs, democrats are poised to institutionalize poverty in this demographic as they have in other American communities. In coming to | Read More »
One of the best stories of the past few months has been the ultimate establishment/grass roots competition coming from Indiana. Senator Dick Lugar ( R) has been facing a primary challenge from tea party, NRA and Club for Growth endorsed Richard Mourdock. Lugar is leading his opponent in the polls by over 20 points. However, a few weeks back, the story broke that Lugar’s residency | Read More »
Recently, United States Attorney General, Eric Holder, came out with his defense of American drone assassinations of American citizens without due process of law. Obviously, his rationalization left something to be desired. For those that missed it, in 2011, the President of the United States ordered the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, born in New Mexico. In fairness to the President, al-Awlaki was assassinated because he | Read More »
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