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Constitution

Recognizing the need to establish a method of counting the population for the purpose of taxation and political representation, our founding fathers created the national census within the U.S. constitution.  It reads, “Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term [...]

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Help Eliminate the “Sweepies”

May 2, 2009

Each day as things change in our society, laws are popping up, institutions are changing hands, and our leaders are becoming less and less accountable, I cannot help but wonder; how many Americans have recently read the Constitution? I know we all read it in like 10th grade when it meant nothing to us but [...]

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Hypocrisy at it’s Finest

May 2, 2009

By the definition found in Dictionary.com, freedom has 17 definitions, 3 are listed below:
1. The state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint.
2. Exemption from external control, interference, regulation, etc. 
3. Civil liberty, as opposed to subjection to an arbitrary or despotic government.
In pondering these definitions, something I find [...]

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Constitutional Islam?

April 27, 2009

An opinion piece in the Washington Post caught my attention this morning.  It was written by Feisal Abdul Rauf , Chairman of the Cordoba Initiative and author of  “What’s Right With Islam Is What’s Right With America.”  The focus of his article is encouraging a modern  judiciary in Muslim nations that ensures that the laws are not [...]

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