We are under no compulsion to award Sonia Sotomayor a seat on the Supreme Court merely because she is a Puerto Rican chick.

Sotomayor grew up in the South Bronx. Big deal, yo — I grew up in the South Bronx too, and no one ever gave ME a free ride through the Ivy Leagues.

And yet I believe I am no less intelligent than she. And frankly, I think I’m a better lawyer, even though I’ve never attended law school — which I am sure only works in my favor in any event. At the very least, I do understand that the Constitution is no “living” or “culturally evolving” document, and that its principles have nothing to do with redefining justice as Marxism, feminism or statism.

I know the importance of interpreting the Constitution in keeping with the original intent of the Framers, versus yielding to the seductions of some narcotic, post-modernist, legal positivism. One judicial activist on any U.S. court is one too many, and this is the Supreme Court we’re talking about, for the love of justice. Furthermore, the particular judicial activist in question here has been publicly much too cute about her proclivities in this regard. Well, I have no taste for seeing policy made in any court of appeals, thanks just the same.

And she knows, this is on tape, and she should never say that, because judges “don’t make law,” and she knows, OK, she knows, and she’s not promoting or advocating it.
She really isn’t … she’s — “you know.”

And we do know, don’t we?

I mean, Sotomayor’s got all that “wise Latina woman, richness of her experiences” thing going on, you know?  Well, maybe you don’t know, because this, after all, is a persons-of-color thing, and you might not understand.

America, America.

All of that imbecility aside, I understand that this nation’s founding documents and the Fathers’ philosophies of governance afford no legal sanction at any time, in any place to any of the indecent and dishonest inequities we typically get from those who “think” like Sotomayor, inequities born of all this affirmative-action-baby-type social engineering we see today — history of slavery or no history of slavery.

Permitting slavery at the establishment of this great nation was a serious lapse in judgment on the part of the Founding Fathers, to be sure. And this has since then produced no end of cynical machinations on the part of those who desire nothing better than to destroy this great experiment in self-government and replace it with a globalist empire of their own humanist arrogance, based at the UN.

All such are free to drop dead.

Whatever the stumblings of our Fathers may have been, there is no excuse for this kidnapping of the American constitutional republic that Sotomayor and Obama are fomenting and perpetrating now — assisted to no small degree by the limp-wrists in the Senate and their streetwalker partners in the “news” media.

America does not need a 60s/70s-era subversive on the Court simply because she’s got a little melanin in her skin and knows what “sí, se puede” means. We’ve already got one of those in the Oval Office, where he has wreaked more than enough damage as it is.

NO to Sotomayor. NO.

This, by Devlin Barrett, on Townhall.com:

Eric Holder, the nation's first black attorney general, said Wednesday the United States was "a nation of cowards" on matters of race, with most Americans avoiding candid discussions of racial issues. In a speech to Justice Department employees marking Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.

"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," Holder said.

The following, from me:

Hey, Mr. Holder:

With all due respect — do you even know what you're talking about?

I doubt it.

Please do the nation this courtesy: Spare us any more inane non sequiturs. Please. How heart-stoppingly STUPID.

Stop it.

"Cowards"? Because we do not talk enough about "race"? Or as much as YOU think we should about it?

Mr. Holder, that is ALL we talk about in this country anymore — when we are not talking about sex — and we serve it up boiled, mashed, stewed, and smothered in onions.

We are FORCED to obsess over "race" endlessly, because the race/grievance/victimization merchants, of which you are certainly one, will not let us think about anything else.

Do you refuse to let us go, Mr. Pharaoh?

Listen to me: The blacks in this country have it FAR, FAR BETTER than blacks anywhere else in the world. And you may not know this, but African slavery has long been abolished in our 50 states, the Jim Crow era is over and finished, we have affirmative action enacted and enshrined from sea to shining sea, and we are prohibited by law in this land to discriminate against blacks or even to say anything "mean" about them. Right?

Anyone who does not like it here is always welcome to leave. I notice they stay.

What in Reason's name are you talking about Mr. Holder?

Speak for yourself, Mr. Holder. You do NOT speak for me or my household. The man writing these words is no "coward" — not about "race," anyway, which I would not even think about if you would just quit dealing that particular drug.

In the Name of Heaven, Mr. Holder, you and all who "think" like you:

SHUT UP ABOUT IT ALREADY!

David Limbaugh has just written: "When Obama peddled panic to rush his bill through Congress, he heeded this advice from Rahm Emanuel: 'Never allow a crisis to go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things.' "

No doubt.

They are also opportunities to tell big lies, commit big frauds and perpetrate big thefts.

It seems a “crisis” presents a phenomenal excuse to commit big crimes.

Crimes, I say, and I do not overstate the case. What is there about the Obama-Democrat "stimulus" bill that honors the principles of representative government? This was a breathtaking power grab, a rejection of responsible stewardship, a betrayal of a sacred trust and a damnable act of larceny.

Which of us ever got to vote our consciences as concerns this iron yoke of a bill? Which of us ever knew what was in it, even as these "devoted and selfless public servants" rushed it through in a fever to clamp it upon our necks?

If this measure was so noble, why the secrecy? If so prudent, why the haste? If the national need was so "urgent," as they claim, why the coming years of delay upon so much that was enacted therein?

Those billions upon billions of dollars that do not exist and that they have pledged toward the perpetual enslavement of our children and the destruction of this nation — is any of that their money? Who says it is? Since when?

The wealth of nations belongs to the people who produce it by their labor — the product of their lives and their talents — and to the God Who rules those nations and bestows those gifts and is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Those who devised, supported and passed this abomination are perjurers and extortionists. They know what they have done. They know it is deceptive. They do NOT know that their destruction hangs over them, and that their punishment marches relentlessly in their direction.

The current “crisis” was a chance for this generation of political hacks, this despicable den of robbers, this contemptible brood of snakes, to get their goodies now.

It was their chance to "do big things."

David Harsanyi wrote this in his Townhall.com column: Democrats have concocted a surefire political victory. They've notified America that the so-called "stimulus" bill might take a long time to work -- which is exceptionally handy, considering we always come out of a recession at some point.

No worries, folks. The Democrat-Obama "stimulus" bill will NEVER work. Not even after a long time.

Why not? It's because, with all these bailouts and all that psychopathic spending in there (sexually transmitted disease education?!?), this thieving, lying Congress, gang-led by its biceps-flexing Shrieker of the House, has mortgaged the souls of our descendants down to about the 10th generation.

By the time these mountebanks — I mean public servants — get done with this medicine show of theirs, there will be no money in America, no prosperity, no national wealth — indeed, there will be no nation.

Nice work, "liberals," "Democrats," phonies. Years from now you will stand amidst all the ruin, misery and devastation you've caused, and you will still be lying about it, out of your duplicitous faces. I expect to witness it.

But that's your way, the way of the Whore: "She eats and wipes her mouth and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.' "

Far too many in this present generation have been intoxicated with the maddening wine of your fornications, you "liberals," "Democrats," phonies. But future generations will curse you.

Rightly so.

But I also know that you — "liberals," "Democrats," phonies — could not have perpetrated this massive fraud against honest, hard-working Americans (the minority in this once-great nation) without the aid of your lying, thieving partners in Congress: the Republi-cRats. (My apologies to those VERY FEW Republicans in Congress who understand and honor Constitutional principles and who strive to represent their constituents with honor and integrity. You few are worthy of a much better government — and a much better electorate.)

The Constitution of these United States gives the members of Congress the authority to represent us and to make law by our permission and in our name, using our authority — which is the sacred trust of the Almighty God — and for the benefit of all the people, but in strict accordance with the principles of that great founding legal document.

Whence derive these career politicians any authority to lie unceasingly to the people and to spend money that neither they nor we possess, and which does not belong to them in any case?

 

This Lord's Day we covered the following in my Sunday school class:

 

Thankfulness

Being full of appreciation and gratitude, realizing that God has given you all things.

Focus on what you have, and not on what you don't have.

It is not what is taken from you, but what you do with what you have left.

All good gifts are from God.

To be sure, all of this is appropriate in the face of our current economic difficulties. But as I meditated and reflected on these principles, it occurred to me that they speak even more forcefully to the political challenges our nation confronts at this very time.

I, an ordinary Christian, citizen and patriot, am thankful, because I realize that God has indeed given us every good gift. This includes my citizenship in this wonderful country, the very greatest that has ever existed on His earth, and our Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence. I revere and love Him for all these things.

As concerns our present distress, I will not focus on what I do not have. I will focus on what I do have: a fighting spirit, a clear mind, a command of the English language, and lots and lots of like-minded patriots all over this land, who are as concerned as I am, who are watching with me and who will fight alongside me. I have many praying with me. And I have the promises of the Almighty.

I know that He is on His throne, and so I have hope. We have hope. If He sees fit for now to chastise us at the hand of the socialist-statist tyrants, I will submit myself to His discipline, and I will trust Him for the grace to repent and reform and to change my ways. I will study and regroup and fight and pray.

Truly, it is NOT what is taken from us, but what we do with what we have left. At present, our adversaries have their Comrade-in-Chief in the White House. They have their politburo in the halls of Congress and their lying prophets in Hollywood, the universities and the news media. They have all that. They have TAKEN all that.

They do not have AMERICA: They do not have me, they do not have you. America they will not get without a fight. And we will fight. We will not hand over our children, our homes, our republic. We will fight, and fight and fight some more. We will never surrender, and we will never say "master" to caesar, csar, kaiser,  Comrade or Chairman.

Only one is our Master: even Christ.

The enemy may, in coming days, pervert our laws, press us sore and rob us of the wealth we have toiled to earn. He may try to silence our speech and take away our ability to defend ourselves and our families. HE CANNOT CHANGE US. He cannot rob us of our faith, of our courage, of our dignity, of our resolve, of our identity, of our love of truth and liberty and justice. HE CANNOT CHANGE US. AND HE CANNOT OVERCOME US. And he cannot defeat the One Who raises up kings and then brings them down again.

For most of our history, we have been free of invaders on our soil — with the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the War Between the States being, to varying degrees, the exception. But now, the wolves are skulking, and behind them prowl the hyenas, and behind them circle the vultures.

We must fight, but we must also pray and seek the face of the Almighty. We must declare truth, and refuse to lie. We must be honest about our errors, our injustices, our wrongdoing, our blasphemies, our sin. We must be a humble people, lowly in spirit, who respect and revere the Almighty. We must seek to understand His mind, His heart, His commands. We must understand His grace. And we must seek His succor, His mercy, His help.

Above all, this patriot is thankful for his knowledge of the Divine Savior Jesus Christ, who forgives all his sins. The nations belong to Christ. America included. And EVERY nation — whether they recognize Him or not, and whether they like it or not. Thank you, Almighty Lord, Sovereign and King of the universe, kind and gracious and merciful God.

The nations belong to Christ.

Happy Lord's Day.

A Townhall.com reader I respect wrote in one of his posts recently that many of the namby-pamby, mealymouthed pantywaists in the Republican Party are to blame for American conservatives' being on the outside looking in, in the wake of this latest electoral rout. This reader reminds us that "nice guys" finish last, and he insists that, for now, at least, "we are finished."

I agree.

But we are not defeated forever. No way. And I say that we desperately need something else now, a whole new political philosophy. That philosophy need not be novel — in fact it should NOT be. But it does need to be TRUE and to MAKE SENSE. The GOP, as it "functions" now, is USELESS, because it is FALSE and UNPRINCIPLED. No news there, I know.

I will add this, though: Those who are running down this country and threatening our constitutional republic, those who have made a sham of representative democracy and who are so consumed with envy and lust for power that they are hell-bent on fomenting a tyrannical socialist-statist system, those who are so blinded with barbaric rage that they will sell America out and betray our national security in a sneeze — such people are given over to their madness for the simple reason that they have rejected the One Who rules the cosmos He Himself has created, and Who alone judges justly. They have rejected Shiloh, and so their destruction is assured.

Anyone who wishes to may deny the existence of God. But everyone knows the truth in any case. Most people simply suppress it, to their personal destruction. So be it, but I will not go that way. The nations belong to Christ. Deal with it.

I do NOT want to preach, or come off as a religious zealot. I only mean to point out that any system of government or political philosophy worthy of the name must pay due deference, a right reverence, to the transcendence of truth — to an objective reality that is permanent and fixed, and which must constrain us all as we seek to "establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."

I don't care whether anyone wants to go to church or not at this point. I do insist that anyone calling himself a republican (small "r," please) or who respects constitutional government be willing to acknowledge the legitimacy and centrality of traditional religious principle in the establishment of just government. This is nothing other than what the Founding Fathers said and bequeathed to us.

Let us return to that, posthaste and without apology, and let there be no dithering about it.

The American Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence are worth conserving — they are worth fighting for, in other words, so what is called for here is a manly conservatism.

And for heaven's sake — let's stop letting our women display all the manliness.

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