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At the Washington Post, David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey bring up an interesting question about President Obama’s health care legislation: Does the US Constitution give the federal government the authority to require citizens to buy nationalized health insurance? President Obama has called for a serious and ...
Barack Obama, Health Care, Reform, Constitution, Health Insurance
Joe the Plumber weighs in on the pressing issue of “queers:” In the last month, same-sex marriage has become legal in Iowa and Vermont. What do you think about same-sex marriage at a state level? At a state level, it’s up to them. I don’t want it to be ...
bigotry, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, Constitution, Theocracy, Homophobia, Gay Rights, Joe the Plumber
Sure enough, after my post yesterday on respecting the Constitution and opposing theocracy, the hate mail started pouring in, from self-labeled “Christians.” There are four of them this morning, but I’ll just post this one because the others are banal and uninteresting. (The contact form has an explicit notice: “Messages ...
conservatism, GOP, Science, social conservatism, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Constitution
I’ve received quite a few hate mails from creationists (and I do mean hate mail) freaking out over the posts about Charles Darwin and the deceptive agenda of “intelligent design,” and the post about Mike Huckabee’s claim that the stimulus bill is “anti-religion,” so here’s a quick statement on the ...
conservatism, GOP, Science, social conservatism, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Constitution
Here’s a piece by David Kennedy Houck on Muslim organizations’ attempts to establish “separate but equal” enclaves in the United States: The Islamist Challenge to the U.S. Constitution. First in Europe and now in the United States, Muslim groups have petitioned to establish enclaves in which they can uphold and ...
Middle East Quarterly, David Kennedy Houck, Islam, Constitution