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April
03 , 2006
Due to the move, this will be a short issue, but I will post more articles and complete the Mailbag on Monday if possible. Be sure to drop in later in the week so you won't miss anything. Wyoming or bust! The real "Live Free or Die" state. Come join us build liberty and justice in our lifetime!
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Just the other day, I was shaking my head over a piece of the latest news concerning potentially unconstitutional action taken virtually unilaterally by our president. A California Congressman claims that President Bush knowingly signed a law that wasn't passed through the House of Representatives. In a letter addressed to the White House, Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) claims that the White House was warned in advance of the signing that there was a discrepancy between the bill received by the White House and the one actually passed by the House. He says advice as to how to proceed in light of the error was sought, but that the President instead merely signed the bill he had. If the case is as presented, there is a clear constitutional issue here. In the Presentment Clause of the Constitution, the president can only sign legislation as approved by both houses of Congress. Since the bill he received wasn't so approved, Waxman says that legal scholars have told him that the "substantive differences between the versions" of the bills means constitutional muster wasn't met. The question obviously then becomes one of whether or not the President and his staff knew about the differences before or after the bill was signed on February 8. Waxman claims they knew beforehand. (Read the rest here)
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Ten Mistakes the Bush Administration Is Repeating from Vietnam Because the Bush administration, almost from the start, has eschewed any comparison of Iraq with Vietnam, officials apparently never read the history of the nation’s heretofore worst war and have made the same 10 major mistakes: 1. Underestimating the enemy. As in Vietnam, the superpower’s potent military has been astounded by the tenacity and competence of a nationalist rebellion attempting to throw a foreign occupier from its soil. For example, the U.S. military, a hierarchical organization, views the Sunni insurgency as disorganized and without a central command structure. Yet the insurgents are using this decentralized structure very effectively and are not threatened by any U.S. decapitation strike to severely wound the rebellion by killing its leaders. (Read the rest here)
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Perils of Economic Ignorance Last week in this column I wrote of a perfect economic storm facing America, caused by a federal government that spends, borrows, and prints so much money that our dollars are eroding in value at an alarming rate. Year after year our federal government spends beyond its revenues, prints new money to pay its debts, and borrows hundreds of billions abroad in the form of Treasury obligations that someday must be paid. With too many dollars and debt instruments in circulation, and no political will in Washington to cut spending, we've created a monster. Our perceived prosperity depends on keeping the great debt and credit engine pumping, but the only way to attract new lenders to fuel the engine is higher interest rates. At some point one of two things must happen: either the party in Washington ends, or the supremacy of the dollar as the world's reserve currency ends. It's a sobering thought, but a choice must be made. (Read the rest here)
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Failure To Understand Cultures I watched with great interest as the West got all bent out of shape over the recent events in Afghanistan. A 41-year-old Afghani was standing trial in Afghanistan for the ‘crime’ of converting from Islam to Christianity. The man had been living overseas, and had apparently returned to Afghanistan to get custody of his daughters, who were living with family members. It was the man’s own family that turned him in. Now the man has been arrested and has been told to convert back to Islam or he faces the death penalty. To his credit in standing by his faith, the man has refused to be hypocritical and conform to the demands of his oppressors, thus risking his very life. For the moment, it appears this man will not face death via a trial, but I wonder if he can get out of the country alive, as the imams have worked the people into such a fury against him that the people could mob his jail and kill him. (Read the rest here)
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Commentary on the News, 26 March to 1 April 2006 - View from the
High Hills Today is also officially the end of my (annual?) campaign to instill good character in all of us lovers of liberty. Three months - thirteen weeks - is usually enough: even the Boy Scout Law only has thirteen traits. So today's theme is "in other words." Since Mama Liberty is moving, here is a short selection of the most interesting news articles this week: Campaign
2006: Democrats pledge to "eliminate"
Osama In other words, vote for us - we'll be meaner and nastier and more aggressive and more the international cop than the pitiful gang you've got in the White House and Congress now. (Read the rest here)
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