1a) from patriotupdate.com: 'Rand Paul Wins CPAC Straw Poll, Scott Walker Close Second' - Mar. 1 (orig. posted at cnsnews.com - by Jill Colvin, AP - Feb. 28)
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John Spencer · Top Commenter 6 hours ago
Time Jeb stepped down and stopped pretending to be one of us. The other four, in any order, I could live with, but I wish Ted was born here with two citizen parents.
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1b) from cnsnews.com: Jill Colvin, AP - Feb. 28 .. kibitzer3 • a few seconds ago (Mar. 1)
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If we ignored what the Constitution explicitly said regarding the eligibility of presidential candidates, then the founding documents that held our nation together and set it apart from the rest of the world would be rendered meaningless.
"We would no longer be governed by the rule of law, I predicted. We would be governed by the rule of men.
"Now, more than six years later, we are saddled with a president who knows no one is going to hold him accountable to the law. After all, if we didn’t take the Constitution seriously on a matter of the few and simple eligibility rules it set forth regarding the presidency, why would the Congress, the courts and the people hold him accountable [to] other laws of the land?
"The results are in. The evidence is clear. The history has been written.
"Barack Obama has abused his authority as president to, in effect, legislate new rules on immigration, after making repeated public comments making clear he knew he had no such power. He even neglected to follow his own executive branch rules in issuing what has been incorrectly termed an “executive order,” as WND first reported. And now he ignores a federal judge’s ruling on that fine point.
"This is one of a thousand examples of how the rule of law has been abolished in America today, for all intents and purposes…
"In reflecting on all this, it seems like a bad dream.
"Does anyone care about the rule of law anymore?
"Does anyone care about the Constitution?
"Does anything matter?
"Is the system hopelessly broken now?
"From 2008 through 2015, many people told me the eligibility issue was simply not important. Obama, they explained, had to be defeated on his political agenda. To me, flouting the Constitution demonstrated Obama’s political agenda. It exposed it. It revealed it. It demonstrated it. Flouting the Constitution was the agenda.
"That’s what I thought then. Today, I am 100 percent convinced of that fact.
"More than six years later, the questions about Obama’s eligibility remain. How could a man whose father was a non-American and a mother too young to confer natural born citizenship on her son be eligible for the presidency? But no one cares – except late-night comedians. The whole issue has become one big joke.
"Sadly, so has the rule of law.
"Giving a pass on the constitutional eligibility test in 2009 was like allowing the camel’s nose under the tent. Since then, the camel has entered the tent and done what camels do when allowed inside – wreaked utter havoc."
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Indeed, Joseph. Indeed.
Thank you for your pointing out the obvious: that actions have consequences. And sometimes, they can be very bad ones. Very, very bad.
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Fortunately, there were a considerable number of supporting comments to Joseph's article.
There's hope yet…
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…and then there are little gifts like this, from the front lines of our daily lives. From Golden Age of Gaia of Mar. 1:
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…and then there are little gifts like this, from the front lines of our daily lives. From Golden Age of Gaia of Mar. 1:
And finally…
More feel good news stories to explore.
This article of course comes at a perfect time. With me under the weather, I invite you to explore the top 10 kindness stories of 2014 as chosen by another author. I do believe we think very much alike!
Read them, and enjoy the various flavors of our live - especially on the bright side. :-)
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