Archive for January, 2006

Have you ever read the Constitution of the United States? If you have, perhaps you’ll know what the first thing following the Preamble happens to say:

“All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” — United States Constitution, Art. 1, §1

“Legislative Powers” refers to “the power to create laws” (Dictionary.com, “legislative” entry), so the very first statement of the body of the Constitution is that all law-making power is held by Congress.

Is the Supreme Court a part of Congress? No. The “Congress of the United States… shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”

So it’s simple, really: Roe v. Wade isn’t law. Regardless of whether you think it conforms to law (which is the most a court ruling could ever possibly do, and which I’m convinced this ruling fails to do), only someone entirely ignorant of the Constitution would claim a court decision as law.

Which begs the question: Do we want to be governed by people who are ignorant of the one thing they’re sworn to uphold?

Alright, it looks like I blog about my local church enough to have a “Chesapeake Community Church” category set up.

Chesapeake has decided to hop a ride on the iTrain! Now, they aren’t in the official iTunes directory yet, but you can now get their sermons via podcast!

Since the New Year brings with it a new sermon series on Nehemiah, I’m going to spend some time over the following weeks months, hitting the highlights of these messages.

Oh yeah, and Dave Harvey spoke yesterday on materialism.

Checking out my SiteMeter stats, I found a funny little entry. Please feel free to check it out for yourself. Apparently, my previous “techtrack.gov” post has caught someone’s attention (and made it to the #1 slot in Google’s results for the string).

A note to my visitor(s) from 65.125.25.# (GRAY HAWK SYSTEMS/DOJ-FBI): The proper way to run a site-specific search on Google would be to enter “site:techtrack.gov” (without the spaces). You’ll be happy to find Google hasn’t indexed your precious classified site. As you found from your botched search, though, quite a few server logs have made note of your visits.

Yep, “Big Brother is watching you.” That is, once he finds his glasses.

The Administration’s humiliation of Congress

Since the NSA scandal began, one of the most bizarre aspects of the story is that the Administration has been claiming that Congress authorized it to eavesdrop in violation of FISA, but the Congress which is said to have done so had no idea that the Administration was engaged in warrantless eavesdropping and had no idea that it had authorized eavesdropping in violation of FISA. Beyond that fact, the actions of the Congress throughout 2002 make undeniably clear that Congress was not only completely unaware that the Administration was eavesdropping outside of FISA, but also that Congress was deliberately misled by the Administration into believing that FISA continued to govern the Administration’s eavesdropping activities.

I highly recommend bookmarking Glenn’s blog. He’s putting the pieces together…

Apparently y’all have been getting an error message every time you try to leave a comment.

Shame on you! You should have e-mailed me! (Okay, those of you who had my e-mail address.) My darling wife just let me know, and it’s probably been at least a week now…