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Marriage amendment out of committee

The House Rule Committee has passed H61 — a bill authorizing a referendum on a constitutional amendment restricting marriage. It now goes to the North [...]
September 12, 2011 | Posted in: Civil Rights, Constitution | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Marriage amendment debate

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September 12, 2011 | Posted in: Civil Rights, Constitution | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

NC GOP wimps out

Well, unlike those big burly Red States that want to either nullify or secede, this state’s new overlords are merely going to pass a resolution [...]
February 7, 2011 | Posted in: Constitution, NCHouse | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Morning Post: Number 14 edition

14th Amendment Amendment XIV Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the [...]
August 7, 2010 | Posted in: Constitution, Morning Post | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Please note: the Constitution when passed was indeed defective

Really galls me to listen to the perfect-constructionist crowd who seem to be convinced that Jesus wrote the Constitution or something. The document was not [...]
May 15, 2010 | Posted in: Constitution | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

God almighty

Suit brewing over atheistic heathen type in public office. When Bothwell was sworn into office on Monday, he used an alternative oath that doesn’t require [...]
December 12, 2009 | Posted in: Constitution, Current Events | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Checkpoint monitoring and racial profiling

More on the racial profiling issue via this post from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice on BlueNC. Over the past week the Southern Coalition [...]
July 7, 2009 | Posted in: Constitution, Courts, Current Events, Immigration | Tags: , , , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

What is the pH of empathy?

This Supreme Court debate is tiresome and annoying already because it’s not going to be about the law. No, it’s going to be about big [...]
May 9, 2009 | Posted in: Administration, Constitution, Courts | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink