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Allan F Wrote: Jul 27, 2010 9:51 PM
Right on. As Justice Holmes put it, more or less, The life of the law is not logic, it is experience. That is why fancy Kagan-type concepts like Shariah law have no place in American jurisprudence; its not part of the American experience and incorporating it would be to graft a dullard's head on a sack of potatoes and calling it a monkey.
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marc from Reagan Country Wrote: Jul 27, 2010 10:24 PM
wooo wooo wait, Nancy piggloisi, Diane feinstein, madamn boxer, lois capps ( pro abortion nurse from santa barbara ) are my candidates to volunteer to have Shariah's law shown to me....

Many of the wonderful-sounding ideas that have been tried as government policies have failed disastrously. Because so few people bother to study history, often the same ideas and policies have been tried again, either in another country or in the same country at a later time-- and with the same disastrous results.

One of the ideas that has proved to be almost impervious to evidence is the idea that wise and far-sighted people need to take control and plan economic and social policies so that there will be a rational and just order, rather than chaos resulting from things being allowed to...

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