Category: Courts And The Law
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Kim Davis’ Opportunity To Win For Separation Of Church And State
Unlike most, I don’t subscribe to the modern notion of church / state separation and am fully informed that it is not a law or a matter of Constitutional principle. It’s a note from Thomas Jefferson to someone else. However, here we are and Kim Davis is in jail for one simple reason: the governments…
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Does This Sound Stupid Or What?
Liberated from the Post-Dispatch article here. Even if it becomes law, Illinois freedom of speech won’t apply to Missourians Even if Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signs newly passed freedom of speech legislation into law, Missouri freedom of speech permit-holders shouldn’t plan on visiting the Land of Lincoln while speaking freely any time soon. The…
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The 2012 Party Of ‘NO!’
It’s a pretty simple question, Justices. Would the American People change the Constitution to explicitly allow the (limited) government of the people, by the people, and for the people to force them to buy a product under penalty of taxation OR law? The answer, is a resounding, NO! I’m definitely a member of that Party…
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Irony: Bales vs. Hasan
Received via e-mail; author unknown… Think about this!!!!!!!!! After reading the headlines today about the US soldier who shot up Afghanistan civilians, I couldn’t help noticing an irony. There is all this clamor to try this guy quickly and execute him, never mind his having suffered a traumatic brain injury. Yet this Major Hasan, who…
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Happy New… …40,000 Laws
As New Year’s Eve passed, news stories started running to remind us that 40,000 new Local, State, and Federal laws had gone into effect — likely 39,999 attacks on our freedoms. I assumed some of those laws were from Missouri, so in an e-mail, I suggested to Cape Girardeau County’s Missouri State Legislators that they…
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Do U.S. Citizens Really Own Their Homes?
This is a great essay by Paul Arman III questioning the constitutionality of the Real Estate Tax and the tyranny our government employs to evict home-owners without compensations: Every year in the United States (U.S.), people are forced into homelessness because of their inability to pay real estate tax. Every year hundreds of parcels of…
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Do You Know Your State’s Preamble?
Received via e-mail: Alabama 1901, Preamble: We the people of the State of Alabama , invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish the following Constitution.. Alaska 1956, Preamble: We, the people of Alaska , grateful to God and to those who founded our nation and pioneered this great land. Arizona…
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Missouri’s Republic Is Under Attack
The bags of money at the Humane Society of the United States (H$U$) are again attacking Missouri’s voters with a feel-good Constitutional Amendment that will undermine our republican system of government. Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to prohibit the repeal or amendment by the General Assembly of a statute enacted by citizen initiative passed…
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