GOP Presidential Candidates Campaign in Wisconsin

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Three of the four candidates for the GOP nomination for President spoke.  I don't think Paul was there as I stopped watching near the end.  It is nearly a two hour video.

The Real Signficance of the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution

Is understood from this quote attributed to Frederick Douglass:

In a speech delivered on November 15, 1867, Douglass said "A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex".

Douglass was a former slave, who escaped and became a leading Abolitionist.

Remember this when some modern day agitators want to grab your gun.

Douglass said Lincoln was America's greatest President.  It was Lincoln who said of the Dred Scott decision that the power of the Supreme Court is not supreme after all.

“If the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court,” wrote Abraham Lincoln, “the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.”

The cartridge box guarantees your access to the ballot box, which, via the vote, can nullify anything the Supreme Court wants to say one way or the other.

Swingin’ Kennedy

National Review Online-  Mark Steyn

quote:

It’s not just that the legislators who legislate it don’t know what’s in it, nor that the citizens on the receiving end can never hope to understand it, but that even the nation’s most eminent judges acknowledge that it is beyond individual human comprehension. A 2,700-page law is, by definition, an affront to self-government.

Comment:

The law should be scrapped in its entirety.  Hopefully, the members of the court will not be intimidated into doing the wrong thing.

Earth Hour 2012 – A dissent and poll

Watts Up With That?

quote:  ( from an essay by Ross McKitrick)

I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.

Instead of demonizing electrical power, let's celebrate human achievement, as this video encourages:

Catalytic Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Formic Acid

Green Car Congress

This article was posted in 2009.  Now, compare with what I linked to today on a similar subject.

Thought for the Day – Health Care and Education

Coyote Blog

quote:

The most frequent justification I see from the Left for increasing government involvement and control of the health care system is that the US spends more per capita on health care than any other country but apparently gets little extra benefit from the spending in terms of health outcomes**.

Intriguingly, the exact same statement can be made of the American education system, which is already nearly fully nationalized. We spend more per capita than any other country and get only middling results. I wonder why those who use high spending with modest results as a justification for rethinking the health care system do not come to the same conclusion for the public education system?

Via: OnlineEducation.net

Comment:

That last point, 40 years ago, coincided with the last lunar landing of the Apollo Era. Nuff said!

The Best Damn Argument For The Unconstitutionality of ObamaCare

Ace

Won't repeat it here, you have to read it.  According to Rush's show recently, they've already decided.  Now, they are going to write it up and then release it in June.  The justices may have made up their minds before the arguments.  A lot of this is just venting.