#7
..once amnesty passes, it won't. Border still unsecured and pols elsewhere more than happy to unload their unwanted who would only demand reform or revolution back home which threaten the powers of those who rule.
#1
This resolution would add a 28th Amendment, stating that Congress can regulate contributions and spending in federal elections. It would also give state governments the same authority in statewide contests.
Yeah 'cuz that couldn't be used for evil powers.
The reason there is so much money in politics is because there is so much power to buy.
#2
I suspect the 'state government' clause is to make it easier to get states to ratify it - kind of a bribe to the ruling party that they can then regulate their opponents speech during an election.
And don't assume ratification is 'impossible' - the same states ratified the 17th amendment basically surrendering up their representation in the federal government.
#3
If Udall is for it, I'm almost certainly against it.
The most important speech that the 1st Amendment protects is political speech. Only in a Lefty world would exotic dancers get full constitutional protection and citizens weighing in on public policy be gagged.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "loathes" Barack Obama, and his hostile attitude to the US president constitutes a danger to Israel's well-being, the head of the Israeli opposition charged on Friday night, in a highly unusual acknowledgement of the long-rumored strained personal ties between the two leaders.
Meh. Both loathes and despises, I should think. I wonder how much the head of the Israeli opposition is receiving -- in cash and in kind, as it's said -- from our State Department slush funds? "To strengthen democracy", to be sure.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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