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In 1965, Justice William O. Douglas said in the majority opinion of Griswold v. Connecticut that “specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance.” One day while rummaging through the U.S. Constitution, Douglas was elated to find a right to privacy amongst all those mysterious emanations within our founding document’s penumbra. Voila! A heretofore unknown right materialized.
Using a similar bit of legal legerdemain, the judges deciding
Roe v. Wade explored this method further. With a little
extrapolation they were able to uncover another implied “right”
— the “right” to an abortion. Boy, there must have been a whole
lotta emanating goin’ on while this case was being argued!
And on and on it goes…
Average Joes like us cannot see all these deeply embedded extra rights in the Constitution because they are not visible to the untrained eye. Until a person is sworn in as a member of the Supreme Court’s judicial panel, all those emanating penumbras remain completely hidden from human consciousness. However, after being sprinkled with Penumbra Magic, fairy dust found only in liberal SCOTUS judges’ chambers, the scales covering the eyes of newly affirmed jurists fall off and these previously unseen apparitions instantly become visible. This transformation is absolutely positively miraculous!
The word is that the new Obama administration will be working with Congress to appoint more liberal SCOTUS judges who have developed a new super strength formulation of this judicial potion. Their reconstituted version is said to have the power to detect emanations emanating from all previous emanations!
Pretty soon we won’t even need real judges. Future Presidents
with the advice and consent of Congress will merely appoint
people with liberal sensibilities and equip them with a special
pair of 3-D emanation detection glasses along with a big bottle
of Penumbra Magic. Soon we’ll discover more rights in the
Constitution than you can shake a stick at!
— Rick Arand
Lee’s Summit, Missouri
OR FOR KINDLING A FIRE
Re: Rachel
Alexander’s The
Newspaper Belongs in the Trash:
I canceled my 20+ year subscription to the New York Times the day they ran a front page article on Sarah Palin’s clothes, after neglecting for three days to report on Biden’s comments as to how Barack Obama would be seriously tested early in his Presidency.
It struck me that the prediction of an attack against the U.S. made by one vice-presidential candidate was slightly more newsworthy than were the clothes purchases of the other Vice Presidential candidate. The obviously slanted coverage on those two issues made me realize that my subscription was tantamount to contributing roughly 500 dollars a year to the DNC.
Cancel your subscription — you will not be less well-informed
because there are other outlets for news now. Stop paying
for the left’s agitprop.
— Vic DiRita
Ann Arbor, Michigan
QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS
I’ve been a Republican since I’ve been able to vote, since the early '70s. I am like many other Conservatives feel dishearten by the ways this Nation is going! I want to present a question to you, a question with no legitimate answer. Why? We each own ourselves, in full, and property is an extension of person.
Question: Who says that my life and my property are not entirely my own?
It would be interesting to see the comments!
— D. J. Feindel
AS SURE AS DAY FOLLOWS NIGHT
After the disaster of the elections in 2006 and 2008, I think it is about time that we stop putting off the obvious, specifically, the need to shut down, close, end, what ever you want to call it, the Republican Party. With an almost guaranteed second term, BHO will easily set up his successor to make a successful bid for the White House and twelve years of Democrat “rule.” (Oh how they will rule, too.) No doubt the GOP will put up some lame, weak, silly candidate who will be stomped into the ground by “the anointed one” BHO. Let this be the time in which we create and build a new conservative movement around a new party. By starting from scratch now, by breaking from the tainted name “Republican,” it would be possible to draw Latino, African Americans, and other minorities into a new conservative movement. God knows that these groups have conservative members, but they can’t bring themselves to vote “Republican” (barely could I this last go around). As much as it might bother the old guard, the name Republican is now a guarantee for political defeat. Thanks to the Bush family’s pathetic moderate Republicanism, Karl Rove, and other compassionate conservatives, the Republicans now have an image that can never, absolutely never, be fixed. It is the Edsel of party politics.
We conservatives, not moderates mind you, need to form a new
party, a party that can not be smeared easily by an association
with the current version of the GOP, the “Republicans” (as Mark
Levin calls them). Fresh faces, young folks, who can attract
young voters of all races and background, who will have doubts
about much in the ruling Democrat party, need to dominate the new
party. Why not call it “American Party.” What ever we call
it, it must be started now. Let the GOP be a holding action to
make life miserable for the Dem over the next four years as the
new Conservative movement takes control of the Congress in 2012
and the White House in 2016. On to victory!
— Paul M.
Gainesville, Virginia
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Craig Marshall| 11.13.08 @ 7:08AM
Wow. Paul Martell, the only people creepier than Obamamaniacs are Paulites. Personality cults are not a political party. It might be easier to sell your points if we weren't treated to the ever present "John McLame" for about the hundredth time.
frost| 11.13.08 @ 8:26AM
Sorry Mr. Marshall -- you may have a minor point with your comment on Paul Martell's usage of the name "McLame" (although it is quite accurate), but his other points? Again, Mr. Martell's a lot more right than wrong. Ron Paul (my congressman) might lack the charisma to sway a sufficient number of folks for the top job, but Rudy may still be a viable guy -- he's the ONLY one with the necessary cojones -- but, what a shame he allowed his campaign to get so utterly screwed-up...
Next step? Anybody's guess. Am afraid we're going to be permanently outvoted by the "Something-for-Nothing" bunch.
M. Tobias| 11.13.08 @ 8:39AM
Mr. Martell is symptomatic of the problems facing the Republican party. And all of their problems are of their own making.
In their bid to preserve the positions of thier sitting members, who have grown so liberal during their time in D.C., that it is nearly impossible to tell them from Democrats, the Party has embraced the moderates and the liberal moderates and have their sites set on liberal independents. The Republican Party has turned its back on Conservatives, the very people who comprise their most steadfast base. Why? Because the moderate, some say country club, Republican leadership has never understood Conservatives.
Conservatives are rather uncomplicated in their philosophy. And they are philosophical voters first and Party voters second. If a candidate reflects their philosophy, they will vote for that candidate. If no candidates fit the bill, they stay home.
Well, an ever increasing number of Conservatives, seeing their incomes shrink, their moral values being stripped from society, and their voices being largely ignored, are looking for a organization that will represent them. This is how political parties are born. And if the Republican Party does not want to find itself as the moderate wing of the Democrat party, its leadership had best wake up and take a giant leap to the right. Otherwise, its base will be people like John McCain.
P. Aaron| 11.13.08 @ 9:13AM
As I stated in a letter earlier to TAS this week, the moderates have NO GUTS to make a real stand and leave the party & join the Democrats. They know that if they do, they'll have to stand in line behind more 'courageous' Dems whom at least made the committment.
With the moderates purged, the conservatives could get an honest count of who was left. It's obvious, moderates lack guts.
Crusader| 11.13.08 @ 2:07PM
More on microcosmic...
Philadelphia. Detroit. Washington, DC. What do they have in common? All run by non-European Americans, all havens of corruption, crime, murder, hate, and Anti-Americanism. And we just elected one to the White House! What will all the "feel good" Euro-Americans think when this country turns into one big Detroit? Will they and too many to count RINOs still be "proud" that we elected the first (half) black man to the presidency?
Me, I'm moving out West, where it's still not a crime to be White.
Marc Jeric| 11.13.08 @ 2:22PM
50% of deluded white "liberals" (they call themselves so now, after being proudly communists and socialists and progressives) voted for Obama from Kenya, while 95% of blacks voted for the same. Now which race is racist? Clearly the black one.
the-gunslinger | 11.13.08 @ 4:21PM
I'm conflicted. I can't decide whether the best course of action is to purge the Republican Party and return it to its Conservative roots, or abandon the sinking ship to the "moderates", and form like has been proposed here, a new, real Conservative Party.
Both strategies have their attraction and their merit. But for one thing. The Republican Party is on the ballot in every race in every state. Do we really want to fight THAT uphill battle? Just ask Libertarians.
ruth| 11.13.08 @ 7:43PM
Are we going to be treated to a new whiny letter from P. Martell every day? Mr. Martell, good bye. Don't let the door hit your a** on the way out. You, sir, are a liberal. 'Fess up.
Michael L. Hauschild| 11.15.08 @ 11:24AM
Rodney Dangerfield (he is now with W. C. Fields and Will Rogers) had a wonderful joke about his significant other. He said that he would bury her face down because she told him that she would claw her way out of the grave “to get him.” Well Ruth, the democrats have just buried you face down, for the exact reasons P. Martell elaborates, and as old Rod said, “Go ahead and scratch.”
ruth| 11.17.08 @ 12:11AM
Mikey, you big, bad liberals don't have to worry about little ole me. I'm here just cheering you sweeties on as you vanquish poverty, fear, bad skin and assorted rashes, etc. Everything your obamassiah promised , right? But thanks for the sweet love letter, you sound like a real man. I bet you make your mommy proud.
ht| 11.17.08 @ 5:53PM
Blatant lie: The Republicans at the behest of Rove and company were also instrumental in pressuring Fannie May and many other institutions to lend to illegal aliens and Hispanics with a poor or no credit rating for the same reason.
If anyone with half a brain thinks that's true, we're in more trouble than I thought. Barney Fife and his boyfriend at Freddie Mac, as well as the rest of the Congress, were warned several times that they loan practices they used were leading to this. We could argue the point till we all turn blue, but it's a fact on Congressional Record- look it up Mr. Martell.
Dianne| 11.17.08 @ 8:50PM
BRObama be da MAN!!! Can wait 'til I gets my freebies 'n' stuff. Black skin priviledges! Just like the Nazi Germany-a country which organized itself around the promotion of one race to the detriment of others. Heil Pigment!