Recently a few members of Congress have proposed reviving the national draft in order to fill severe gaps in the number of servicemen in the armed forces. This is a bad idea, and I propose that it will end when a few changes are enacted:
Here's a quote from Vice-President Al Gore in a 1984 newspaper article, proof of how much he changed just so he could advance in the Democratic party:
"I have consistently opposed federal funding of abortion. I believe the government should not participate in the taking of what is arguably a human life."
Why does the major of Atlanta feel that he needs to protect its affirmative action program when blacks make up the majority of the population and government?
I'm now taking bets on the next way Clinton refers to the "risky" Republican tax plan. He's been saying that it will cause cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, and a few days ago called it a threat to the future of public education.
All of this despite the fact that the surplus is extra money that comes from Americans being overtaxed, not out of the current budget. Clinton feels that any money not being spent by the government is not being used correctly, and earlier this year in Buffalo even said that we weren't able to be trusted to spend our own money the right way.
Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor, apparently doesn't read her own writing.
In one sentence she says that white students from households earning $75,000 a year score higher than black students from similar backgrounds. The next sentence, Tucker says: "Racism--not race--probably explains much of that black underachievement. A heritage that includes not only inferior schooling but also slave-control laws that expressly prohibited black literacy is hard to overcome, even in several generations."
So Tucker is saying that 17-year-old black student who has the same opportunities as a 17-year-old white student still doesn't achieve the same standards because his people were enslaved 130 years ago.
This says more about parental and teacher responsibility to me, as I refuse to accept that someone is an underachiever because of his heritage. Irish Catholics were spit upon earlier this century by others of European ancestry, yet I don't see Tucker researching those students' scores and excusing them (if they were to be lower than normal) because their grandparents experienced hardships.
The last few weeks I have heard media criticize GOP presidential front-runner George W. Bush's support for the death penalty. This recently flared because of Larry Keith Robison who, in 1982, repeatedly stabbed, beheaded and sexually mutilated his roommate, then killed four neighbors, including an 11-year-old boy, and now will be made sane to be executed.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has delayed his execution until a lower court decides whether Keith is competent to be killed. So Texas may end up laboring to make a man understand why he is being killed so they can kill him.
This is not always the case, though. In 1992 when Bill Clinton was running for president he flew back to Arkansas to preside theatrically over the execution of a man so mentally ill that he asked his last-meal dessert be saved so he could have it after the execution.
Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe has created quite a stir among liberals two weeks ago when his American Constitutional Law was released.
Tribe, widely regarded as the most influential living American constitutional scholar --who is also a liberal-- has recieved an "avalanche of angry mail" for his interpretation of the right to bear arms contained in the Second Amendment.
Tribe concludes that the right to bear arms was conceived as an important political right that should not be dismissed as "wholly irrelevant." He thinks the Second Amendment assures that "the federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification."
This, of course, comes as no surprise to Republicans who believe the Constitution isn't supposed to be used only when it fits your agenda. Whereas the Left feels that if they disagree with it, the amendments are "wholly irrelevant."
Tribe makes it clear, though, that gun control measures are "plainly constitutional" but the fact that he says the government can't ban guns altogether has severly angered those who wish to repeal the Second Amendment, consisting mostly of fellow liberals.