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Opinion: Capt. Kirk Was Right -- Read the Constitution
By John Merline - AOL NewsIt's been amusing to read the reaction in some quarters to the House Republicans' decision to read the entire U.S. Constitution at the start of the new Congress. Last week, Washington Post columnist and blogger Ezra Klein called it a "gimmick." Post blogger Greg Sargent added his two cents, calling it "a cheap way of humoring activists." A blogger on Firedoglake went a little further, dismissing it as an example of the House "shamelessly pandering" to the tea party. David Corn over at our Politics Daily site said the House GOP was turning the Constitution "into hollow political ...
Bachmann Caucus to Start Offering Classes
By Andrea Stone - AOL News
WASHINGTON (Nov. 10) -- Is Glenn Beck University opening a satellite campus on Capitol Hill? If tea party darling Michele Bachmann gets her way, conservative broadcaster Sean Hannity, Fox legal analyst Andrew Napolitano and David Barton, a Christian evangelist who has said church-state separation is "a myth," will make up the faculty roster when the first classes of her new constitutional conservative caucus convene in the next Congress. The Minnesota Republican recently spoke on Beck's radio show about a new academic counterpart to the tea party caucus she founded earlier this year. Role ...
Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Calif. Video Game Law
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Nov. 2) -- Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court today questioned the legality of a California law that seeks to control the sale of violent video games. The justices invoked James Madison, 1990s video game "Mortal Kombat" and the Grimm brothers' fairy tales as they heard arguments from the state of California and representatives of the $20 billion-a-year gaming industry. At issue are games such as "Postal 2," in which gamers control a crazed protagonist as he murders and mutilates his way through everyday situations. Gamers can make the protagonist -- known as "Postal Dude " -- shoot, ...
Opinion: Health Care Suit Tests Basic Principles
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- As arguments begin Tuesday in a Florida District Court where 20 state attorneys general and the National Federation of Independent Business are challenging the constitutionality of the health care law, the American people can be forgiven for feeling a bit ill at ease about the direction their country is going. James Madison would feel the same way. Madison's vision of limited government was integral to the creation of the U.S. Constitution and its ratification, and he thought the limited nature of the federal government was so clear from the text of the Constitution itself that ...
Opinion: The Tyranny of the Majority
By Philip Bump - AOL News(Aug. 17) -- In the two most frequently and passionately debated political issues of the past few weeks -- the rejection of California's Proposition 8 and the planned mosque and cultural center in lower Manhattan -- there is a common thread: claims by those in disagreement that those decisions are counter to the will of the people. Such claims are understandable. Proposition 8, after all, was passed by a majority of those Californians who voted, and polling consistently demonstrates that, outside of Manhattan, the Cordoba House project is highly unpopular. But what is without merit is the ...
How James Madison Echoes in Ground Zero Mosque Debate
By Paul Wachter - AOL NewsANALYSIS (Aug. 4) -- New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 9-0 on Tuesday to clear the way for the so-called "ground zero mosque," much to the chagrin of its political opponents and pro-Israel groups such as the Anti-Defamation League. The unanimous decision was a powerful rebuke to the movement that has sought to stop the project For the anti-mosquers still huffing and puffing, there is still a way to get rid of the development -- though churches, synagogues, Scientology centers and other religious institutions would also be casualties. That would be to change the ...
Opinion: Impoverishing Democracy
By not in system - AOL News(July 22) -- Thomas Jefferson once observed, "Information is the currency of democracy." That's never been more true than it is today. We live, after all, in an information age, one that's seen a virtual explosion in new sources of information -- ranging from newspapers and TV to talk radio, cable news, millions upon millions of blogs, even billboards. Today, particularly on the Web, openness is supposed to be the watchword when it comes to communication. But, oddly enough, rules that govern much of our information currency are being written by regulatory agencies and lawmakers in closed ...
Is This What James Madison Had in Mind?
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyMONTPELIER STATION, Va. -- It certainly wasn't this way in 1820. Watching the sun fall behind the mountains from the front porch of James Madison's Montpelier home, I am alone. In Madison's time, there was beauty but, I imagine, not much quiet at the bustling homestead. A tour revealed the rest of the home of our fourth U.S. president (1809-1817), not refurnished and restored as the Monticello residence of Madison's friend and neighbor, Thomas Jefferson, but impressive in its unfinished state. The small-of-stature Madison even ceded the spotlight to his vivacious wife, Dolley. But the giant ...
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