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Equal protection, the rule of law, freedom and Gays
Your analysis misses the point. Our founding national values are freedom and equality. Our Constitution requires equal protection. The rule of law requires that laws be rational and not arbitrary nor merely an expression of majoritarian prejudice. Any law that discriminates against a discrete class of Americans should and must rationally serve an ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by Issywise on November 18, 2008
Can Israel Survive 4 Another 60 years?
You forget nother ''categories'' of Jewish people who don't care...or wish they didn't have to..... Israel is, after all, a FOREIGN COUNTRY, if one does not live there. I know, I know....everyone in the USA has an ''old country''....so why not be proud of Israel being your ''old country'' if you are Jewish? One good reason is, there is no other ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Little Neck on May 13, 2008
Massahs
While I personally lean toward Obama among Dems, I think Hillary’s remark about LBJ moving MLK’s work into legislation is spot on and is not the least bit disrespectful of MLK or any other civil rights icon. For black Americans' own sake, their visible political image has to abandon its silly and racist notion that civil rights or anything else ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Censorshipbdamnd on January 14, 2008