We learned that it was a really good day for gun rights, school choice, property rights preservation, and saying NO to things like carbon taxes and green energy schemes. Republicans were truly in the majority today, and we accomplished some very good things!
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Crimefighters
Every once in a while, even an Ivy League law professor can surprise you by saying something sensible. For years I’ve been quoting Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School on the dangers of using judicial review to circumvent the formal constitutional amendment process:
Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it’s not an individual right or that it’s too much of a public safety hazard don’t see the danger in the big picture. They’re courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don’t like.
Recently, I was pleasantly surprised to read this from Stephen Carter at Yale Law School:
On the opening day of law school, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not willing to kill to enforce. Usually they greet this advice with something between skepticism and puzzlement, until I remind them that the police go armed to enforce the will of the state, and if you resist, they might kill you.
Neither idea is new, but there are a lot of people who don’t seem to be willing to listen to an idea unless it comes from a ‘respectable’ source, so it’s nice to be able to quote these two.
What I’m waiting for now is an Ivy League endorsement of another idea that has been kicking around for a while, and whose time, I think, may finally have come:
Psych Diving
In the documentary Free Solo (now in theaters), you can watch Alex Honnold climb El Capitan without a rope — something that doesn’t seem possible even after you’ve just watched him do it.
Much of the film is about the reactions of the other people in his life, including his friends, who are making the film. During some parts of the ascent, they leave their cameras running, but have to look away because they’re afraid for Alex.
They’re afraid for good reason. As one of Alex’s climbing partners puts it: ‘Everybody who has made free soloing a big part of their life is dead.’
But his mother puts her own fears into perspective this way: ‘I think when he’s free soloing that’s when he feels the most alive, the most… everything. How can you even think about taking that away from somebody?’
State marijuana legalization votes: Good for the U.S. Constitution!
by Tim Condon
Who’d a thunk it? The recent marijuana legalization victories in Washington state and Colorado are outstandingly good news for the U.S. Constitution.
Why? Because they underline the facts that James Madison stated in 1788: “”The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.”
So does the Constitution empower the federal government to regulate or outlaw the use or possession of certain substances, such as…alcoholic beverages?
Of course not! That’s why…