Ten Commandments? The Real Issue

The money passage from the latest column of Alan Keyes, that needs to be shouted from the rooftops:

The First Amendment to the Constitution plainly states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion …” Since there can be no federal law on the subject, there appears to be no lawful basis for any element of the federal government – including the courts – to act in this area.
Moreover, the 10th Amendment to the Constitution plainly states that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” This means that the power to make laws respecting an establishment of religion, having been explicitly withheld from the United States, is reserved to the states or to the people.

Well done, as usual, Alan. I hope someone will file this text as a ‘freind of the court” brief, when this question is finally taken up by the USSC.
Here’s the link to the full text.

Mona Charen has penned a great comeback for those who think culture doesn’t make any difference.
Required reading.

Boortz is a little thick on some matters. He still can’t understand.

Is it too much to ask, though, for you to try to separate your religious practices from the operation of government?

Ummm…. Neal, explain to us how a 5000lb stone monument negatively effects the operation of government, please.

Look, I’m not a fan of Schwarzenegger, politically speaking. He’s no conservative. But as Ann Coulter points out, he’s not Davis.

Now, when I see the leftists at the Washington Post running a pure hit peice like this one, it’s clear to me that they are fearful.

Consider the signs; this is the group of people that carried Bill Clinton’s fetid water for around a decade…. and they’re making moral judgments on Schwarzenegger?  Seems a bit odd, particularly when there’s a lot more material on what an unmitigated disaster Davis has been for that state, and for the country.

At least, until you consider what the Democrats stand to lose in California….

No left leaning bias my butt.

Boortz blows it on many issues. This isn’t one of them. He picked up this line from a blogger calling himself “Ransom” and it bears repeating:

“I don’t disagree that many black Americans remain oppressed, but I would argue that their oppressors are activist leaders within their own community. Some of them perpetuate victimization by ridiculing young black students who do their homework and strive for excellence in school (i.e., acting white). For some, success is only exalted when it is earned in sports, music or within the DNC. However, if a black American succeeds in other areas–like becoming Secretary of State, Supreme Court Justice, National Security Advisor–(s)he is kicked out of the “black American” club having their membership revoked. To these extremists, “black” and “victim” are the same—so if you don’t act like a victim, then you can’t be black. Black leaders have done in 40 years what white people could not do in 400: to make black Americans accept inferior status”

(No, I don’t have the link to that Blog… note to Boortz… add the links when you refer to items on the web!)

The write-ups and so on are starting to come out on that NASA report we were told would come out today.
Newsday, among others, that the undermining of the NASA Culture was to blame.

I’d like you to consider the comments I’ve made for years about our western, American culture, and the way it’s being undermined.
I can’t help but think that this is an object lesson ofr our cultural problems as a people… that the undermining of it, will have equally disasterous effects.

Speakers marking 40th aniv of King “I have a dream” speech reject a color-blind society
Hard to believe it’s been 40 years since Dr. Martin Luther King uttered the ‘I have a dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in which he publicly, and dramatically dreamed of a time when people are “not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

I’ve spent some of the last couple days going over tapes of the events at the Lincoln Memorial this past week, watching the race warlords once again eulogize their benefactor. I can’t help but think that King would have disowned the lot of them. To a man, they seem bent on ignoring Dr King’s call for a colorblind society, and demanding instead, special treatment based on the color of their skin. Perhaps the reason they want to be judge on the color of their skin is that they can’t be favorably judged on the content of their character.

Which is also, possibly, why to a man they were using the occasion to be openly and unabashedly stumping for Democrats. The connection? Both the race warlords and the Democrats they’re stumping for, both of them need a dependant class to get elected, and to maintain the lifestyle they have each of them existed in for so many years after King’s death.

At what point do Blacks learn the lesson that neither really wants Blacks to advance in our society? Whenever that is, that will be the point at which the black voter will swing away from the Democrat party, and the race warlords that have been benefitting from the connection.

As if to further my argument in this week’s Bit, Julia Gorin comes up with a brilliant article.

More bad news for liberals. Under President Bush’s eadership the crime rate is at the lowest point since the records started being compiled, 30 years ago.
I wonder how the left will try to spin this one away.

Big doings at the BBC, who apparently sees it’s audeince being lost to non-governmment bradcasters. The BBC is all worried about a monopoly, when it doesn’t have said monopoly.

Do these socialists ever change?

I’m hearing that major record labels are now doing contracts that include a clause into covering “inappropriate” comments or incidents by artists. This clause would make the artists financially responsible for downward CD sales spikes that might stem from “negative” remarks or acts by the artists.

So, apparently, the protests against the Ditsy Twits I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, had a bigger effect than some want to admit.

And a quick look at their latest tour, which grossed around $61 million, would seem to argue against the idea that fans were turning away.  Biut look closer. They presold their tour tickets — most opf hwich were sold well before Maines opened her bazzoooo and the sales policy had absolutely no provision for refunds. Poeple had no chance of voting with their feet. Of course, now, we’ll see the reaction in future. And of course it’ll all be a right wing conspiracy, huh?

Ridiculing chaste young people and their abstinent role models as oddballs and prudes may score Franken a few points at Hollywood and Harvard cocktail parties. But if this intellectual poseur thinks he can improve democracy through nasty pranksterism and mockery, the only one he’s kidding is himself.

So says Michelle Malkin

She’s correct, of course.

An amazing Bit, this, all the more because it’s written by an 18 year old.
Required reading.

It strikes me once again, in reading Ann’s latest Bit, just how downright desperate Californians of all political stripes are to get rid of Davis.

Here’s the facts.