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POPSWarrantless Wiretapping Legal!!!!!! But the Constitution bans only "unreasonable" search and seizure, not all searches and seizures, and the Fourth Amendment allows for exceptions such as those under a President's Article II war powers. The courts have been explicit on this point. In 1980, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held in Truong that "the Executive need not always obtain a warrant for foreign intelligence surveillance." The FISA appeals court said in its 2002 opinion In re Sealed Case that the President has "inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information" and took "for granted" that "FISA could not encroach on the President's constitutional power."
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POPSTom Hanks, say it isn't so In case you didn't notice, Mr. Hanks, the constitutional process worked and the voters spoke. Not once, but twice. Now we will see if the courts will continue to be very UN constitutional and again overturn the will of the people.
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POPSLiberalism 101, If you don't like the vote take it to a judge And just what "fundamental right" is that Mr. Brown. The right to change the definition of marriage. Just take your civil unions and go home. Let's say I want to go play golf. My friends invite me to their home course to play. But when I get there they see that I have brought a bowling ball. I say, "I want to play golf, but I want to use a bowling ball." My friends tell me no. They say, "you are welcome to play golf with us but this is how it played." They then lay out the rules and what equipment is proper. I say, "I don't want to follow the rules that have been established. Instead I want you to change the rules of golf so that I can use this 16 pound bowling ball. And if you don't I will sure you for denying my right to play."
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POPSProtect Barack But the constitutional provision cited by Madigan was written to deal with a governor who suffered a physical or mental disability — not a political one.
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POPSErasing God from our Capitol But that’s a highly selective excerpt that secularizes the document. Here’s the full quote from Article 3: “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” There are plenty of little errors, too. The presidential election of 1824 was not the first one “to excite high public interest and participation” (read about the elections of 1796, 1800, and 1812). The states did not ratify ten of the first twelve amendments to the Constitution passed by Congress (they ratified eleven: The first ten are the Bill of Rights and the eleventh is the 27th amendment, finally approved in 1992). It’s hard to avoid a sad conclusion: Congress’s monument to itself isn’t even good enough for government work.
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POPSFISA This is a great article outlining exactly what the Presidential power is and his responsibilities to the FISA court are.
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POPSDarn voters! God forbid these countries should let the people decide what they want.
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POPSA voice of reason What I would like to know is why the Irish were the only country to vote? Actually, I know why, but I thought I would point it out.
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