Is Obama threatening the Supreme Court?

President Obama offered some additional commentary today regarding his earlier comments that the Supreme Court, as unelected people, do not have the authority to overturn unconstitutional laws. His words today seemed to be a bit of backpedaling after yesterday's comments. They were softened to say that the court has traditionally given deference to the legislature in matters of national economic concern. His comments on Monday were stronger than that and almost a challenge to the Supreme Court.

Apparently Obama hasn't studied much history because the court has overturned many unconstitutional laws in the past. They overturned Jim Crow laws, forced desegregation of schools, enforced Miranda rights. He said that the Obamacare law was passed by an overwhelming majority in Congress. It passed in the House by 219-212. That doesn't seem very overwhelming to me. Even if it had passed unanimously, that doesn't make it constitutional. We live in a constitutional republic not a democracy which means if a law violates our rights and the constitution it is null and void. Here's a hypothetical. Suppose Congress unanimously passed a law sending all blacks back into slavery. According to Obama's standard of it being an overwhelming majority, the Supreme Court should uphold the law. That would be a violation of their rights and should absolutely be overturned however. Obama has spent his term as president acting more and more like a dictator. Who knows what he will try push through when he no longer has to worry about reelection whether that's this November or in four more years.

Martin, Zimmerman, Patience and the Truth

I've read several news articles, commentaries in internet forum posts about the death of Trayvon Martin who was shot by George Zimmerman. One of the things I've noticed that has been sorely lacking has been patience at finding the truth. I've read one side and then the other claiming that the latest bit of information released shows their side is right. We still don't know and may never know all of the details. There are two sides to what happened that night and one of them is dead. The only person able to tell the entire story may or may not be telling the truth.

One thing that we do have is a lot of people pumping the public full of emotion and one sided stories. Al Sharpton is threatening to escalate the protests unless Zimmerman is arrested and charged with murder. Maybe he should be arrested but maybe he shouldn't be. The police and prosecutors need to be given time to properly investigate the incident and make the details public. What this country needs is for justice to be done and not a political response that satisfy one side or the other.

Attorney General wanted to brainwash our rights away

Breitbart is reporting that Attorney General Eric Holder gave a speech in 1995, when he was a US attorney, stating that he wanted to brainwash people into thinking differently about guns. He wanted to use a campaign similar to what was used in anti-smoking commercials to convince young people that guns were bad. Let's switch the subject of his speech to freedom of religion, freedom of speech or maybe the freedom to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. People around the country would be demanding an explanation and probably insisting that he resign or be fired. Add to this the serious allegations of the Fast and Furious scandal and we need a new attorney general.

The head of the Department of Justice should be defending all our freedoms and not just his personal favorites. Anything less, shows that justice in this country is not fair and impartial.