Ron Paul isn't isolationist. He's non-interventionist. It's what we need in order to stop making enemies in this world, you frakking (epithet for a donkey), Blankley.

You're a mindless automaton mouthpiece for the anti-liberty Republicans, Medved. You don't get that your neocon BS is what engenders hatred of our country around the world, rather than inspriing a love of liberty in the darkest of places. Your ridicule of Ron Paul shows your own naivete, in that you can't even see the heart of what put the Republicans back in power in the House. It's people like Ron Paul, who love liberty more than Party, who are the backbone of the current Republican push, and when the Party establishment listens to hacks like you and puts their own anti-liberty person in there, it's going to backfire and we'll end up with 4 more years of Obama. At least with him, we know what we're getting. We can say the same...

You're a mindless automaton mouthpiece for the anti-liberty Republicans, Medved. You don't get that your neocon BS is what engenders hatred of our country around the world, rather than inspriing a love of liberty in the darkest of places. Your ridicule of Ron Paul shows your own naivete, in that you can't even see the heart of what put the Republicans back in power in the House. It's people like Ron Paul, who love liberty more than Party, who are the backbone of the current Republican push, and when the Party establishment listens to hacks like you and puts their own anti-liberty person in there, it's going to backfire and we'll end up with 4 more years of Obama. At least with him, we know what we're getting. We can say the same...

Chances that this documentary will receive an Academy Award from liberal Hollywood: Hardly greater than 0%.

Well, here is a list (per wikipedia) so that you can "know of" the many other countries that do observe jus soli (birthright citizenship): Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Lesotho, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. Additionally, I don't think we should be holding up the French and their treatment of foreigners as the model of how it's done. Mr. Gerson makes the case plain as day, and it makes logical sense. You need to also...

But I think that's his point and opinion, John C...that the War Powers Act is, in and of itself, unconstitutional since it contravenes the Constitution itself, abrogating the Constitutional responsibility of Congress.

Sorry, Ockham, but one doesn't "allow" (or "disallow") oneself to be promoted or supported by someone else, not when that person has the freedom to vocally support whomever they wish. Certainly, if the guy shows up at a rally and tries to hold up signage that doesn't gel with Ron Paul's message, then he's free to exert that type of control. But he can't mandate that the guy remove his support from his very own website. As Reagan aptly and so expertly explained in 1980 when Democrats tried to paint him into a corner because the radical John Birch Society came out in support of Reagan, "Well, they said they support me, I didn't say I support them."

As I re-read my post, I saw that double standard, and you are right to point it out. I also oppose judicial activism of the far right, or of any kind for that matter. I only pointed out the far left because, imho, that has been the more common occurrence. Be that as it may, I believe legislating from the bench is not appropriate for any cause or ideology. Thanks for commenting.

But Maggie, there are Constitutional limits on what a majority of people can vote to do to a minority of people. You set up this entire argument based on the idea that the will of the majority is being thwarted and that the court in question in overstepping its Constitutional authority. But this line of thinking disregards the role the courts have in determining whether laws (and state constitutions and their amendments) are Constitutional, whether they infringe on the rights of the minority. In this case, they are determining whether the amendment in question violates any part of the Constitution. By my read, a legit case can be made that it does violate the 14th amendment, insofar as the government involves itself at all in the...

And before anyone tries to assault me as some liberal hack, I'm no fan of Obama. I didn't vote for him. I disagree with him on issue after issue. I agree that he consistently fails to demonstrate true leadership. He has consistently failed to earn my respect in practically every decision he makes, every action he takes, every speech he gives. I often opine that it is truly amateur hour at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW.

I just find Mr. Hunt's logic to be lacking here. If the issue really is as small as he purports it to be, then the military leaders should not need such a long time to "evaluate its effects," and they certainly shouldn't commit the error that Mr. Hunt is attributing to Obama.