SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA DIES. Obama to Nominate A Radical To Replace Him?

Justice Scalia, the best (and most conservative) justice on the Supreme Court, died today.  Scalia was true to the Constitution and understood the intended role of the Supreme Court. The flaky liberals on the Court do not -- they render decisions based on their leftist ideology rather than the Constitution.  They "legislate from the bench," a reliable force for the left in overturning Constitutional laws the Democrats dislike, and installing unconstitutional laws in the form of legal decisions that replace a vote of the people.  The leftists on the Court have turned the Court into the exact opposite of what it was intended to be.  Instead of preserving the Constitution, the Court now undermines it at every turn.

Scalia was one of the last, and best, bulwarks against the Constitution-shredding kooks on the Court.  Now that he has died, Obama has stated his plan to nominate a replacement.  You can be sure that replacement will be another radical.  

A radical replacement can be stopped, however, if the Senate Republicans refuse to seat such a nominee, deferring the replacement until Obama is out of office.  Whether they will, however, remains to be seen.  

Supremes Ruling on Gay Marriage: Justice Scalia's Dissent

Justice Scalia, writing for the minority in the Gay Marriage issue before the Supreme Court, skewered the majority justices for their frivolous, anti-constitutional decision.  Powerline has some salient quotes from that dissent, such as:

Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact— and the furthest extension one can even imagine—of the Court’s claimed power to create “liberties” that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention. This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.

Scalia discusses the superficiality of the decision thus:

If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: “The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,” I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.

Scalia's right.  Thanks to progressivism, leftism, and political correctness, we have lost our ability to govern ourselves.  Thanks to the increasinlgy superficiality of our culture, we have lost the ability to care.

Read Powerline's extracts of the dissent here.

Ready to Secede? #secession

The U.S.  Supreme Court has become a cruel joke.  They just saved Obamacare again, and enforced gay marriage on all 50 states by edict, in a 5-4 vote.  States can no longer decide for themselves whether or not to enact gay marriage or stay with the traditional view of marriage.  Now they have been ordered to accept it.

Once again, we see the power of the states slipping away, replaced by an arm of the federal government.  It is clear that the Republic is lost, the Constitution a relic -- perhaps fit only for a museum, right next to the Confederate flag.

Personally, I don't see any other option:  It is time for states to begin secession from the United States of America, and to form new unions or confederations as they see fit.

New York Times Op-Ed Raises Some Interesting Possibilities for Conservatives

Some forward thinker at the New York Times has written an op-ed column stating that it is time to get rid of the U.S. Constitution.  Then and only then can progressives carry out plans to turn the once greatest nation in the world into a banana republic and socialist tyranny.

The great thinker in question, one Louis Michael Seidman, writes:

As someone who has taught constitutional law for almost 40 years, I am ashamed it took me so long to see how bizarre all this is. Imagine that after careful study a government official — say, the president or one of the party leaders in Congress — reaches a considered judgment that a particular course of action is best for the country. Suddenly, someone bursts into the room with new information: a group of white propertied men who have been dead for two centuries, knew nothing of our present situation, acted illegally under existing law and thought it was fine to own slaves might have disagreed with this course of action. Is it even remotely rational that the official should change his or her mind because of this divination?

Hey, Seditious Seidman may have a point.  How many times have you wanted to firebomb the presses of the New York Times?  Unfortunately, there's this pesky First Amendment that makes it illegal.  With no more Constitution, we can exercise lawless, mob action to do what is undoubtedly correct:  shutting up the traitors among us.

Some other possibilities:

1. Making it illegal for anyone to be a leftist.
2. Outlawing the Democrat Party.
3. Outlawing labor unions.
4. Licensing all print and broadcast media and enforcing a code of conduct, i.e., to promote, support and celebrate capitalism, traditional marriage, free markets, laissez-faire economics, and to oppose, denigrate and ridicule socialism, collectivism, and smelly hippies.  Those who fail to support the code of conduct will have their licenses to publish canceled and subject to arrest and summary execution.
5. Mass firing of all college professors who are leftists, communists, Marxists, progressives or Democrats (I realize that those categories widely overlap).  Michael Savage will be appointed education czar and will have the responsibility of hiring all university professors.
6. Mass deportation of all Muslims and illegal immigrants.
7. Outlawing rap music.
8. Outlawing facial studs and tattoos.
9. Legally recognizing abortion as murder and practitioners thereof subject to summary execution.

There's a point to my madness.  The Constitution even protects the unworthy, like Seidman and the publishers of the New York Times.

And now a warning to "progressives" everywhere:  We will fight in the streets, if necessary, to preserve the Constitution.  We do not accept the seditious transformation of our country into a socialist tyranny.  Do not underestimate us.

Sultan Knish: Burn the Koran or the Constitution?

Sultan Knish

Sultan Knish is an excellent expository writer. He really puts things into perspective regarding the Koran vs the Constitution...and the political insanity and hypocrisy of the liberal media elites. This is one of the best essays I have read to commemorate the ninth anniversary of 9/11.

The media's coverage of the 9th anniversary of the Muslim murder of 3,000 people was overshadowed by their panicked coverage of the possibility that Terry Jones, the pastor of a tiny Florida church, might actually burn the Koran. Last week Newsweek ran Fareed Zakaria's piece insisting that Americans overreacted to 9/11. So instead the media showed us where their priorities lie, by shortchanging the dead, ignoring their killers and instead turning the pastor of a small Florida church into a villain for even talking about the possibility of torching a book, whose contents helped inspire 9/11. It's as if on Holocaust Memorial Day, the key topic of discussion was not the murder of 6,000,000 Jews, but a protester who wanted to get his Bic lighter close to Mein Kampf.

Read it all here.

Sonia Sotomayor Ready to Begin Shredding the Constitution Today

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is a moonbat liberal stereotype on steroids. Today she will undoubtedly be confirmed as a justice of the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court was designed to be a key player in our Constitutional system of checks and balances. If Congress passed laws abrogating individual rights, the Supreme Court would strike down such laws. No more.

Today the Supreme Court is an ideological free-for-all; ideological judges like Sotomayor are appointed, not because of their knowledge or their love for the Constitution, but because of their willingness to help Congress subvert it. In Sotomayor's case, she has indicated that her judicial decisions will be, in part, based on her ethnic identity, her personal racial biases, and her "empathy" for one party over the other.

The final guardians of liberty have been compromised, perhaps fatally for the Republic.