Posts Tagged Constitution
A Widespread Misunderstanding
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Constitution on March 4th, 2012
A recent comment posted to this blog demonstrates a widespread–and pernicious–misunderstanding of the role of the U.S. Constitution. The commenter demanded to know where there was any reference to healthcare in the constitution. The answer, of course, is that no such reference exists–just as there’s no reference to, say, smoking. Or marriage. Or the right [...]
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Conserving Our System
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on December 26th, 2011
What passes for political discourse these days is so debased, so irrational, that we no longer even think about the real meanings of the words we throw around. So “socialist” is conflated with “Nazi” (and used without any obvious understanding of what the term describes) and “conservative” is used to describe positions that are anything [...]
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Facts, Law and Mike Delph
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on July 2nd, 2011
A friend who uses Twitter sent me a series of Tweets from Mike Delph today. Most railed against “activist” judges (beginning with Chief Justice Marshall’s decision in Marbury v. Madison) and the “elites that control them.” Others were–frankly–incomprehensible, not to mention ungrammatical. The one sentiment that came through loud and clear is that Delph is [...]
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The Politics We Deserve
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth, Local Government on May 30th, 2011
My speech to the Annual Meeting of the Jewish Community Relations Council. ___________ We have just emerged from one of the most depressing sessions of the Indiana legislature I can remember. It was anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-teacher, anti-public-employee…We passed a mean-spirited and largely unconstitutional immigration bill. We defunded Planned Parenthood, in violation of federal law, [...]
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Seeing What We Want to See
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on April 25th, 2011
I’ve decided that people don’t really read for information–instead, we (and I include myself in that “we”) read for validation. We look for evidence that supports what we already believe. It is one of those all-too-human tendencies we need to fight. We see this selective approach most clearly in the way people read the bible. [...]
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