This country

[Mr 5 0]

Originally Posted by Capri306

Mr. 5.0, have you read Ann Coulter's book yet? Yeah, that one. If you have, would you suggest picking up a copy?

I've read every book that the lovely and witty Ann Coulter has written and I never miss her weekly column. I'm a fan. I especially loved 'Treason', which was full of facts that I had never read before and cast a new light on the forever-demonized Senator Joe McCarthy. It also portrays liberal as basically anti-American at heart - and always on the side of the enemy. No news to me. Even today, the far left is more concerned with terrorists alleged 'rights' in Guantanomo than the security of their fellow Americans and blame America for 9/11. They have power in academia, the media and in the old 'mainline' churches but Bill Clinton pretty much killed their majority in congress, probably for good...one hopes.

TW, I don't like the fact that nine lawyers in black robes dictate the course of our nation, either. However, I thank God we still have the power to elect the men in charge of appointing them. Remember Clinton (heil Clintler! ) and the Court striking down his line-item veto? Whew!

I remember it well. They do get a few things right.

I only hope that President Bush can appoint two or three (Justice Stevens is now 83 years old) more Supreme Court Justices that will read the constitution as it is written and apply it to their decisions fairly and stop trying to change society according to their personal whims and then pretend to 'find' some hitherto unknown 'right' in the constitution to justify what they have already decided - not on the basis of the constitution - but their own personal preferences. That's wrong - yet it's been the pattern of the Supreme Court for 40 years or more.

Let me hasten to note that I don't necessarily want all Republican/conservative ideologues as Supreme Court Justices, either. Just fair-minded men or women who read the constitution and apply it sensibly to their rulings, without any ideological bias. That was the original intent of the founders and if we could get the Supreme Court back to that line of reasoning - making the actual words of the constitution our guide instead of what we wish it said - this nation would be well served.