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Why the Supreme Court is not Supreme
To vocal opponents of judicial activism, this comes as little surprise. The U.S. Supreme Court has suffered a major credibility blow in the wake of its politically motivated 5-4 Obergefell v. Hodges “gay marriage” opinion. In it, they presumed to do the impossible – both redefine the age-old institution of natural marriage and to give this fictional definition precedence over freedoms actually enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
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Tagged Andrew Jackson, George Pugh, SCOTUS, William Pitt Fessenden
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Affluence and Elected Office
The Democratic Party and liberal pundits are trying to make the case that because Mitt Romney is extraordinarily wealthy, he can’t relate to the struggles of average or economically disadvantaged folk; and if he can’t relate to their struggles, he doesn’t care; and if he doesn’t care, he is unworthy of the office of president.
History demonstrates that that argument fails miserably.
In 2010, the Wall Street Journal published a list of the inflation-adjusted net worth of past American presidents. Some of our finest presidents and some presidents that the Left love were also men of considerable means. Some inherited …
Posted in Federal
Tagged Andrew Jackson, Ben Nelson, Bill Clinton, Carolyn Maloney, Claire McCaskill, Dianne Feinstein, Dwight Eisenhower, Frank Lautenberg, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Washington, Herb Kohl, James Madison, James Monroe, Jared Polis, Jay Rockefeller, Jeff Bingaman, John Adams, John F. Kennedy, John Kerry, John Quincy Adams, Kay Hagan, Lloyd Doggett, Mark Warner, Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi, Nita Lowey, Richard Blumenthal, Shelley Berkeley, Ted Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Harkin
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