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Sowell: Local or National Elections?
Creators Syndicate ^ | October 14, 20134 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 10/13/2014 9:22:47 AM PDT by jazusamo

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1 posted on 10/13/2014 9:22:47 AM PDT by jazusamo
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2 posted on 10/13/2014 9:24:24 AM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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It’s not the subject of his column but the local/national schism is now the primary problem in the courts.

Time after time we see cloistered federal judges overturning the will of millions of people. Naturally, the rulings are the usual liberal madness but the problem of usurping power and invalidating the ballot box exists regardless of the issue.


3 posted on 10/13/2014 9:31:07 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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We are living in a judicial dictatorship.

Which is why I’ve said repeatedly that we can’t rely on the courts to follow the law.


4 posted on 10/13/2014 9:34:10 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: jazusamo

It’s too bad that blacks idolize smooth talking, air headed, Bo-Jangle charlatans like Obama and Jesse Jackson instead of rational, learned, intelligent men like Thomas Sowell amd Walter E. Williams.


5 posted on 10/13/2014 9:39:10 AM PDT by Iron Munro (We can make it work with only one square per restroom visit -- Sheryl Crow)
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To: jazusamo

Read the part of Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address where he speaks of the jeopardy of the Supreme Court as an “Eminent Tribunal”.


6 posted on 10/13/2014 9:41:19 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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7 posted on 10/13/2014 9:47:24 AM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
We are living in a judicial dictatorship.

I'd say it's more of an administrative dictatorship, which the courts usually agree to. Both are a problem. Our lives are run by regulation, but when some laws are passed by popular vote that aren't completely PC, the judiciary is there to nullify them (gay marriage, voter ID).

8 posted on 10/13/2014 9:54:48 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine
administrative dictatorship...

A good article on "Administrative Law" can be found in this month's Imprimis from Hillsdale Univ

9 posted on 10/13/2014 10:02:08 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: jazusamo

I am so sick of the two party system, I think that there should be an option that is “None of the Above”. And if
Non of the Above” gets 33% or more both parties would have to toss out their candidates and pick new ones for a run off...


10 posted on 10/13/2014 10:03:18 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

A large part of the problem is that we, the victims of this scam, meekly accept that the rulings of a branch of the federal government are valid in cases involving the limits of the powers of....the federal government. Decisions on limits of federal power should be made by the state judiciaries (maybe a panel made up of rotating members of state supreme courts or something like that).


11 posted on 10/13/2014 10:05:59 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Yes. The legislative branch is primarily a dog & pony show for the masses.

A black swan event such as ebola outbreak in Central America causing a tsunami of diseased peasants would (will?) eliminate even the facade that the US is still a republic. We would have an acknowledged takeover by the administrative branch. i.e. declared or de facto martial law.

While the influx of diseased illegals we are seeing now is awful, an ebola caused wave would be like a “b” apocalypse movie. Beyond the imagination of the average low information American.


12 posted on 10/13/2014 10:06:27 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: jazusamo
The trolls are coming out in force to try and split the anti-Obama vote using Symbolic political purity as their wedge issue.
You all know who you are.
13 posted on 10/13/2014 10:37:48 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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"I am so sick of the two party system....." Yes, the Kamikaze Conservative so despise RINO's that they are willing to chase 3rd party fantasies or attempt a perverse contentment by just sitting home and allowing liberals to win by default. All of their efforts have been counter productive.

You would do yourself and the rest of us a favor by waking up to reality and voting Republican. The ranks can be purged after we gain a solid majority. Without that majority, the next few Supreme Court justices will seal the fate of our country.

14 posted on 10/13/2014 10:57:12 AM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: jazusamo
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15 posted on 10/13/2014 10:59:45 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Buffalo Head

You would do yourself and the rest of us a favor by waking up to reality and voting Republican. The ranks can be purged after we gain a solid majority. Without that majority, the next few Supreme Court justices will seal the fate of our country.

Umm, I did vote for Romney, I had to use a clothespin on my nose, but I did...

Because I was in purple state of colorado, not that it did any damned good...

What I am proposing is a “VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE”

Did you even read my post you RINO party hack?


16 posted on 10/13/2014 11:00:20 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Iron Munro

Well, for one thing, they are old.

Another, they are low-key. They are not heavily in the public eye.

And last, they don’t say the things their race wants to hear.

Bottom line, we find out it isn’t really about race, but about ideology. Black trash want stuff for nothing, even if it is minimal, so commie ideology is what they will pick.

They will always pick a lily-white commie over a real 100% black freedom-lover.


17 posted on 10/13/2014 12:11:58 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: GraceG

There should not be party announcements on ballots.

I don’t mind parties, per se, but knowing them is what makes people pick them without knowing anything else about the politico.

How asinine it was when that judge struck down this very principle a few years ago in that southern town, I think in the carolinas.


18 posted on 10/13/2014 12:14:58 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

[ There should not be party announcements on ballots. ]

NAILED IT!


19 posted on 10/13/2014 12:22:20 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: GraceG

Well said and stick to your guns. These GOPe lovers always sing the same song and after 20 years it becomes a tiring tune. Their strategy will keep the Banana Republicans in power for another 20 years.

The GOPe and Democrats won’t be satisfied until they control all campaign money and have impoverished conservatives into silence. They have and will use every means possible to do that unless we overthrow that leadership now.


20 posted on 10/13/2014 1:25:00 PM PDT by trubolotta
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