Tag Archive: election

Jan
14

Reading into the Constitution

  
One of my favorite slogans from the right is the hue and cry about “activist judges” who “create rights out of whole cloth.” One of the favorites is the “right to privacy,” which is not in the Constitution in that form, but has been deduced from the 3rd, 4th, and 14th Amendments in cases before [...]

Jan
09

Why I left the Republican Party

I voted Republican in every Presidential election until 2004. George W. Bush ruined my association with the party, with his profligate spending and faith-based initiatives. His foolish attack on Iraq, pulling all assets out of Afghanistan showed me his ineptitude and the falseness of neoconservatism. “No Child Left Behind” has done more damage to the [...]