Tag archive for ‘Opinion’
Gov. Palin “knocks it out of the park” with her convention speech…
Text of the speech… it was amazingly delivered and was hard hitting:
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States…
I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America.
I accept the challenge of a tough fight in [...]
Barack Obama, “ein Mann aus dem Volke!”
I’m sure by now my readers have seen the speech by Senator Obama on what I’ve comically referred to as “Obama - the World Tour.” Put simply - if you’ve been living under a rock - Sen. Obama went to Germany and delivered quite a nice speech. In response - US media is gushing over [...]
Law and Politics: Where is the Supreme Court?
Without question, this term of the Supreme Court has been a roller-coaster. This term, the Supreme Court overturned the Federal sentencing guidelines, empowered 401(k) holders to sue their employers for mismanagement of their retirement funds, ruled that lethal injection was not cruel and unusual punishment, required voters to present ID before voting, struck down a [...]
Death is an appropriate sentence for the rape of a child…
The Supreme Court declared today in Louisiana v. Kennedy that execution is an excessive punishment for child rape, despite the “years of long anguish” for victims. Truly amazing - child rape does not warrant the death penalty.
The court’s 5-4 decision struck down a Louisiana law that allows capital punishment for people convicted of raping children [...]
Supreme Court Grants Habeas Corpus to Detainees at GTMO
By a 5 to 4 vote that brought strongly worded and remorseful dissents from the Court’s conservative justices, the majority held that an alternative procedure designed by the Administration and Congress was inadequate to insure that the detainees “receive their day in court”. While all Supreme Court cases are necessarily historic - as they become [...]
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