Thought Quotient

Kerry Romps in South; Clark Dropping Out

Kerry is feeling pretty good these days and beginning to sound off on the campaign trail…

“George Bush, who speaks of strength, has made America weaker - weaker economically, weaker in our health care, weaker in education. And the truth is that he has made us weaker militarily by overextending the armed forces of the United States,” Kerry said.

Note that he doesn’t say how Bush has ‘overextended the military’…would it be that we are in a war right now against terrorism? We are at war to protect the people of the United States. Liberals have already forgotten that 19 men killed 3000 Americans in an hour and a half. Instead, we are supposed to focus on our paychecks, health care and yes, ‘the children.’ Meanwhile the war goes on and Kerry wants to hand off most of that responsibility to the UN who couldn’t enforce their very only resolutions against Iraq?

I’m anticipating President Bush using the bully pulpit to remind Americans that we are still in a war, a war that allows us the freedom and protection to yes, think about economics, health care, and education. If we were coping with more 9/11 type attacks, I dare say we wouldn’t have that luxury.

What is an Oligarchy?

Webster defines it…

I’ll try to apply it…
Seeing how our courts over the last 50 years or so have started to become more activist in their rulings, many are saying that our democratic republic initiated by our founding fathers is turning into one. What does that mean? By sheer observation of the news, I see that it is a way to pass a law without public approval or going through the legislative process (remember the ruling that the pledge of allegience was unconstitutional?) This is a trend that many simply call judicial tyranny and are saying enough is enough.

This possibility was not new to the founders and they had this to say…

George Washington February 7, 1788
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“To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem [good justice is broad jurisdiction], and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.” –Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:277
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What the?, I stopped watching the cable news channels and the ‘big three’ networks because of the way they teased me with stories just to keep me hanging on through the next commercial break only to find out finally towards the end of the program that the story was an overhyped commercial just to get me to sit through the whole thing until the end. I know the mainstream media has a liberal bias and that goes without saying so I’m not going to touch that one. Besides, anyone who is fair minded can see that anymore so more and more people are getting their eyes opened. But it’s becoming painfully obvious that 24 hour news stations are having a hard time filling up all of that time with ‘news.’ So what’s the result? The news broadcasts are looking more like ‘entertainment tonight’ or tabloid shows. I’ve been getting my news lately from the internet because I can avoid that junk and go right to the stories that I really want to read…but that appears to be falling prey to the same trouble. Case in point - the CNN homepage this morning had approximately 35 stories linked on their front page, with the following stories listed among the 10 most important…

� Woman marries dead boyfriend

� Swimmer drives for help with shark attached to leg

� Sea lion leaves ocean for 65-mile trip inland

Is this CNN or the ‘weekly world news’ at the checkout aisle of my local grocery store? Tomorrow I expect to see that Elvis is going to be running this year as a 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate.