tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618278694134380990.post7514179763100594262..comments2023-05-13T03:35:23.876-05:00Comments on The Lost Fart of Blogging: Fifty Years of Judicial TyrannyBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10120554561277504589noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618278694134380990.post-8030722732341303622008-07-20T12:36:00.000-05:002008-07-20T12:36:00.000-05:00We might start by having a declaration somehow, so...We might start by having a declaration somehow, somewhere (maybe something like the Monroe Doctrine) that the USA tends to it's own domestic affairs and no foreign entity (Europe, the UN, the World Court, etc.) may interfere or dictate policy to us, and their decisions have no jurisdiction or binding status on any domestic matter within the country. That would cut out foolishness like the World Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618278694134380990.post-47774343847694552212008-07-19T11:23:00.000-05:002008-07-19T11:23:00.000-05:00GuyK--Thanks for dropping by. You're right about t...GuyK--<BR/>Thanks for dropping by. You're right about the Court's decisions tending to track with public sentiment, and perhaps that's what most troubling. Modern society's narcississtic notion (<I>Words mean nothing more than what they mean to me</I>) is typified by today's Supreme Court. Rational discourse becomes impossible when each person is free to assign his own meanings to words and Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10120554561277504589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618278694134380990.post-9840023318874313232008-07-19T09:29:00.000-05:002008-07-19T09:29:00.000-05:00When a president has the public behind him he can ...When a president has the public behind him he can stand up to the courts and get by with it..RE: Andrew Jackson and the removal of the Cherokee from Georgia to the Indian Territory.<BR/><BR/>The court seems to have a way though of reflecting popular public opinion...the Heller outcome was an indication of that as well as Roe vs Wade.<BR/><BR/>But like jerry says..I have never found that right to GUYKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02365709988592687239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618278694134380990.post-52590345544097941542008-07-16T21:48:00.000-05:002008-07-16T21:48:00.000-05:00I'm still scratching my head about how the First A...I'm still scratching my head about how the First Amendment came to mean "Christians must be muzzled in public places".Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10120554561277504589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618278694134380990.post-31306391137157641452008-07-16T17:38:00.000-05:002008-07-16T17:38:00.000-05:00Good analysis.While I was happy with the outcome o...Good analysis.<BR/><BR/>While I was happy with the outcome of "Heller" it was disconcerting that, in the words of a Wall Street Journal editorial, that a Constitutionally enumerated right came within one vote of being excised from the Constitution.<BR/><BR/>I am still looking for that "right to privacy" that is the basis of such lunacy as Roe v. Wade.Jerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10596065269535476259noreply@blogger.com