I no longer listen to what men say, instead, I watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie
As a junior member in the US House, he was a major …
As a junior member in the US House, he was a major force: He wrote and then spearheaded passage of the Superfund law. He even authored the US nuclear negotiating position. And at a time when President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev faced off on the superpower stage, Gore had his own meeting with Gorbachev. And, of course, he created the Internet. At various times in his political career, Gore, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has said all those things about himself and his family. None are quite true. Some are exaggerations grown up around kernels of biographical fact. Others are simply false. A few, like the boastful claim about the Internet, have become comic fodder, even for Gore. Al Gore
Boston Globe, 4/11/00
A federal appeals court Thursday overturned a Mesa, Ariz. man’s federal …
A federal appeals court Thursday overturned a Mesa, Ariz. man’sfederal conviction of possessing five machine guns. A three-judgepanel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of San Franciscoreversed the conviction, ruling that the congressional ban doesnot apply to homemade machine guns and their parts becausethey were never in the stream of commerce. The court ruled thatthere was neither a transfer nor sale of the weapons or their parts,so Congress did not have the power under the Commerce Clauseto regulate homemade guns crafted from scratch.
( 11/13/03 )
It’s not just bad — its bad business. Barry Goldwater Senator Barry …
It’s not just bad — its bad business.
Barry Goldwater
Senator Barry Goldwater on discrimination in the workplace (1909-1998)
I’ve had some experience in farming myself. I was raised a …
I’ve had some experience in farming myself. I was raised a good part of my life on a farm. I’ve cleaned out hog lots. I’ve planted. I’ve harvested. I’ve taken up hay all day in the sun, and then after a shortdinner break help neighbors take it up by moonlight before the rain came. I’ve helped deliver calves with my bare hands. Agritalk with Ken Root, 3/20/99Bob Carter, 72, can buy the hay harvest, but delivering calves with bare hands he isn’t so sure about. Mr. Carter says he grew up on a dairy farm in Montgomery County [Md.], back before subdivisions even appeared in the blueprints. While his milking days are over, his heart is still with the cows. And calves. ‘This proves again that Mr. Gore probably doesn’t know anything about it,’ says the former dairy farmer. ‘Because one thing you do when a cow is having a calf is you don’t touch anything, you just let them handle things in a natural way like a cow can do.’ Al Gore
John McCaslin, The Washington Times, 3/24/99
We have gold because we cannot trust governments. Herbert Hoover …
We have gold because we cannot trust governments.
Herbert Hoover
When the white man discovered this country Indians were running it.No …
When the white man discovered this country Indians were running it.No taxes no debt, women did all the work White man thought he could improve on a system like this. Old Cherokee Saying
True wealth gives you freedom. Malcolm Forbes …
True wealth gives you freedom.
Malcolm Forbes
The risk of doing nothing, the risk of hoping that Saddam Hussein …
The risk of doing nothing, the risk of hoping that Saddam Hussein changes his mind and becomes a gentle soul, the risk that somehow inaction will make the world safer, is a risk I’m not willing to take for the American people,” Bush said in his prime-time news conference. George W. Bush
March 6, 2003
Here, let us again pause, and reflect, how admirably this division, and …
Here, let us again pause, and reflect, how admirably this division, and distribution of legislative power is adapted to preserve the liberty, and to promote the happiness of the people of the United StatesEFifthly, and lastly; by the separation of the judiciary from the legislative department; and the independence of the former, of the control, or influence of the latter, in any case where any individual may be aggrieved or oppressed, under colour of an unconstitutional act of the legislature, or executive. In England, on the contrary, the greatest political object may be attained, by laws, apparently of little importance, or amounting only to a slight domestic regulation: the game-laws, as was before observed, have been converted into the means of disarming the body of the people:E Saint George Tucker
Blackstone’s Commentaries (1803), Volume 1, Appendix, Note D [Section 13: Restraints on Powers of Congress con’t]. Whole Book.