Recent content by wit>trope

It has authority to pass advisory recommendations. This is the whole "unitary executive" theory that is supported by legal giants such as the person who wrote the outstanding memo saying that the President could authorize coercive interrogation even contrary to Geneva treaty since treaty's have...

It's more common than you think. For instance among early Christian leaders, several believed it -- such as Origen etc. Also it actually does NOT necessarily result in everything being happy and shiny at some COMMON end point. What it does necessitate is it being happy and shiny at some...

I would rather that bin Laden be forced to work as a waiter or janitor for the rest of his life (i.e. as a servant) -- I also favor this for illegal immigrants -- and btw I CHECKED this and illegal entry to the US IS IN FACT a crime -- and as such it can get punished ... and life-long labor is a...

Let me observe some things 1 ABSOLUTELY NO WHERE in this quote is found ANY of the original allegations you made about "antichrist" and "vision" So you have conceded those original points 2 But still this quote raises OTHER issues -- which is fair enough 3 But before I comment, I need...

But in merging them, one is still displaced as I explained above. Furthermore according to WIKIPEDIA, Presidents Day is just a popular name for Washington's Birthday and Presidents Day -- according to WIKIPEDIA -- does NOT officially celebrate Lincoln even though in the POPULAR mind it does.

A European Google will never work. They will censor search results. Google, being an American company, does not have to do that. (For instance a European Google will probably censor results from historians who say that 4 million Jews died in the Holocaust) This is also why international...

I am saying that the executive gets to interpret laws and judge which are constitutional in matters of the "sword" just as congress does in matters of the "purse" If THAT puts them "above the law" -- then YOU are putting the COURTS above the law since they do EXACTLY THE SAME THING! They...

Maybe you should ask HER since she mentions it all the time herself! "As a Hispanic... blah blah blah" Same with other people they say "As a black American.... blah blah blah" (In fact IIRC, she mentioned it in the very speech or hearing which I cited where she erroneously claimed that the...

The several people who said that foreign elections of women as leader by her party are very different are absolutely right. Even if the people knew what the party would do, that doesn't mean AT ALL that they had no qualms about it. For it could very well mean only that their qualms about the...

Sorry nihil, I somehow missed your post. I think I addressed them (or most of them -- I'm not recalling all of them) in my other posts. It's not membership in some African tribe that is the problem, it is lack of aesthetic lustre that is the problem. And lack of aesthetic lustre is a...

I scanned the dissenting opinions and it looks like from a footnote that: 1 Scalia wrote a dissenting opinion in which Thomas and Roberts both joined 2 Thomas wrote a "concurring" dissenting opinion which was NOT joined by either Scalia or Roberts So Thomas' dissent was different...

Actually in a few cases state courts have struck down amendments to their constituions. And the JUDICIARY is not above either executive or legislative. This means that the judiciary can't order the other branches around in matters of the "purse" or "sword" -- "sword" includes military...