“COLUMBUS, Ohio — In wide-ranging remarks here, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended the use of foreign law by American judges, suggested that torture should not be used even when it might yield important information and reflected on her role as the Supreme Court’s only female justice. The occasion was a symposium at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University honoring her 15 years on the court.

“I frankly don’t understand all the brouhaha lately from Congress and even from some of my colleagues about referring to foreign law,” Justice Ginsburg said in her comments on Friday.

The court’s more conservative members — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr., Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas — oppose the citation of foreign law in constitutional cases.”

The rest of the article HERE.

So let’s trash the laws of the US, up to and including the constitution, to make our justices and their decisions cited more often and make the courts of other countries respect the US and its judges.

Sorry, I don’t buy it. It’s the laws of the US for the US. If we are supposed to respect the laws and culture of other countries, then let them respect our laws and culture. We happen to be the country that many people emigrate to because of our constitution. It’s the place that many people wish that their country was like, due to the freedoms and protections that the laws and constitution provide.

Perhaps she would prefer that we accept Sharia law. Then, at least, she wouldn’t have all that work to do as a judge, being a mere woman and all.

But lets make the US more like the rest of the world….at least everyone else will stop wanting to come here.

This is very scary. It seems that in Pakistan, the Islamic Radicals Terrorists Taliban has won:

“Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on April 13 signed the Nizam-i-Adl (System of Justice) Regulation into law. Earlier in the day, Parliament overwhelmingly approved the regulation, which stems from a Feb. 17 agreement between the provincial government of the North-West Frontier Province and the jihadist movement in the swat region that calls for a shariah-based legal system to be implemented in the area in exchange for an end to the insurgency. Islamabad had been hesitant to approve the deal between Peshawar and the Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM) — the jihadist group based in the greater Swat region — saying the central government wanted the TNSM militia to lay down its weapons before Islamabad endorsed the deal.”

10% of the taxpayers pay nearly 3/4 of the taxes in this country. 40% of the the wage earning citizens pay no taxes at all.

and the number of folks paying zero taxes is set to rise…..

BTW, that top 10% is folks earning $92,400 or more….

While a bit of tax inequality is to be expected, 40% is too high, and unsustainable.

I guess that the “rich” are now defined as anyone making $92K or more…..

Those are, of course, the folks who work hard for a living.

How long can we continue to take money from those who make good decisions in life and reward bad decisionmakers?

Redistributionists will break this country. We are headed the way of the British. Soon the once proud U.S.A. will be a shadow of it’s former self, and the Chinese or Russians, or the Indians will take over as the preeminent (and dominant) society.

We can change the course of the country. But we have to change our leadership paradigm first….

Go to WWW.Taxdayteaparty.com and be a part of the message for change.

Will we send a loud enough message to the leaders of this country? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But doing nothing will certainly not fix the problem.

“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty,or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds…[we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers…And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from Principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another ]…till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery…And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt.Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.”

Written by Thomas Jefferson in a letter from 1816

Supposedly, this was at the orders of Mr. Obama………I thought he would end up being wishy washy in his first confrontational crisis with outsiders. I fully expected him to dither and wonder why these people are the way they are, and wonder about their poor upbringing, and lack of education keeping them in a circle of violence and all that….

Instead, he only took several days worth of dithering to apparently let the Navy Seals do what they do best…..Kill people and break things.

That’s what we pay them for, and that’s what they train for. Were it up to me, I’d break both arms on the surviving pirate, shoot him in both kneecaps, and cut off his right hand (After all, he is a thief, and a muslim), then send him back to his pirate playmates with the instruction to tell them that this sort of thing will happen to pirates every time the US gets involved…..

But I doubt that the state department will let Mr. Obama do so, even were he able to conjure up the cojones to order it.

At least he appears to be stronger than Mr Carter was (like that would be hard…). But the world was watching this incident, and I doubt that they were greatly impressed with the handling of this. I wonder who else will try testing him, since he doesn’t appear to be very decisive or tough….

A better message from Thomas Paine via Fox News.

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”