Links With Your Coffee - Monday
King's Dream Included Decent Wages Thanks Cara
Did supreme court justice Clarence Thomas say "a judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution"? as reported here via Ignatz
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Great speech on the environment. The greatest threat to the environment is George W. Bush. Video in a variety of formats. Thanks to reader Anders for the link
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A message from the Iraqi resistance. Windows Media video via World News Daily This is the video where they mention Dub's Bring it on challenge and ask if he would like to pose additional challenges.
Comments
That would be ROBERT Kennedy, Jr. I think. John-John, editor of George Magazine, died in a light plane crash about the time that invidious distinctions between presidential offspring in duynastic families could have begun to have an effect on the 2000 election. It was the same timing and the same kind of accident that had neutralized Bush Senior's liberal Republican rival Senator Heinz out of the 1992 race.
Of course it is. My fingers betrayed me, and just before I smashed them with a hammer for their error I made the correction. Personal responsibility ya know.
Norm I humbly (not telling you what to do with your website but...) think that the link for Kennedy's speech should have a red highlight. That is the best "state of the environment" speech I have heard in 4 years.
Respectfully yours - Chris
If what Clarence Thomas said is true, it is an impeachable offence as it is a direct contravention of Article VI of the U.S. Constitution.
http://godsdead.blogspot.com/2005/01/impeach-clarence-thomas.html
We are at a interesting point in American history, where political conservatives who tout originalism in constitutional interpretation openly admit that the duty of their constitutional office can be subverted by religious duty.
But in all seriousness, when Thomas says things like this, or when the GOP rails against Kerry because he disagrees with the Pope, the point isn't really to justify disobedience to law by reference to divine commands. If an air force pilot refused to fly a mission in Iraq because, in accord with Christian just war teaching, he refused to bomb heavily civilian areas, the pilot would get little sympathy from Clarence Thomas.
Rather the point is to indicate that the ultimate meaning of the American republic is defined and embodied by a certain political movement--Christian conservatism. Today any reference to God by a conservative official is quickly understood, and likely intended, to draw some political boundary. It is membership in this movement--not submission to constitutional procedures in which liberals might win a victory or two--which defines true American citizenship.
I can not find any other source on the net for this story beyond this one example. Has anyone else found corroborating reporting anywhere? Not even on this wacky judges website does her mention this conversation.