By Art Smith. Posted Sunday, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:28 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, Abortion, Constitution, Courts, Earmarks, Faith, Featured, First Amendment, John McCain, Right To Life, SCOTUS, Sarah Palin, US Congress
I watched Friday’s John and Cindy McCain interview on The View. Below is part 1; parts 2 and 3 should be accessible from the video.
I see several posts refering to this interview as “McCain Grilled On The View”, for instance this story at Huffpo, and this one at Century Of The Common Iowan.
A stretch to [...]
I’m hoping that the fact you have come to this web site means that you care more about government than the average person. If you care about government, how we do government, and who is doing the work of government on our behalf, then this article is for you.
I’ve alluded to this before, and I [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Monday, Aug 18, 2008 at 4:31 pm Filed Under: Constitution, SCOTUS, Second Amendment
Dick Heller, of DC v. Heller fame, finally got a gun permit today.
Unfortunately, that’s only part of the story.
The District is treating semi-automatic handguns as “machine guns”. So, the registration he succeeded at acquiring only allows him to have a revolver in his home.
Heller recently sued the city again, alleging that the registration rules adopted by [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 at 9:41 pm Filed Under: Constitution, Schools
The Conservative Reader is exceptionally happy to read about 13 Des Moines, Iowa students from East High School who placed first in Iowa and went to Washington, DC to participate in the national finals for “We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution”. The event hosted 1,200 students from around the country.
The contest had students [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:23 pm Filed Under: Constitution, Democratic Party, SCOTUS, voting
The Supreme Court handed down a good (in our opinion) decision this week by affirming the Indiana Voter ID law which was under attack by the ACLU. In a 6 to 3 decision, the high court blasted the “facial challenge” (the litigants claimed the Indiana law was unconstitutional on it’s face, or that it [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Feb 16, 2008 at 4:20 pm Filed Under: Bill of Rights, Constitution, Courts, Gun Control, Liberty, Rights, Second Amendment, Shootings, US Congress, US Politics
I’m still a little overwhelmed by the events of Valentine’s Day.
People died or were injured and should not have been. It never should have happened. As with any other shooting of this type, we will have days of analysis about the drugs that this young man stopped taking, about the easy availability of [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Friday, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:25 pm Filed Under: Constitution, Contests
“Geniousproductions” got the correct answer to this week’s contest!
The question was: The US Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation. Technically, this could have been considered an illegal act. Why?
The answer is, the Articles of Confederation required that all of the 13 states must approve any changes to the Articles. The Constitution was not [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Friday, Feb 8, 2008 at 9:25 pm Filed Under: Constitution, Contests, POTUS
Demosthenes is this week’s winner!
You may recall the question was:
Hypothetical question: If President Bush, Vice President Cheney, House Speaker Pelosi, Senate President Pro Tempore Byrd, Secretary of State Rice, Secretary of the Treasury Paulson, Secretary of Defense Gates, Attorney General Mukasey, Secretary of Interior Kempthorne, and Secretary of Agriculture Schafer were all killed, who (today) [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Feb 2, 2008 at 10:45 pm Filed Under: Constitution, Contests, Courts, John Marshall, US Congress
As disappointing as it may be, we’re closing Contest #3 without a winner.
As you may recall, the question was:
Provide the textual portion of the US Constitution that describes the well-known concept of Judicial Review, which gives the Federal Judiciary the authority to determine the constitutionality of US or State laws. Then, please name the first [...]