If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government the 14th Amendment effectively defeated that purpose by placing the power to enforce the Bill of Rights in federal hands, where it was never intended to be.
Ilana MercerLiberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.
Ilana MercerCognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly.
Ilana MercerThere are just too many Americans grubbing for free stuff and a preponderance of Republicans eager to parcel it out in exchange for power.
Ilana Mercer