Keep the Republic

A blog dedicated to expressing faith in God, hope in America, and a conviction to preserve the principles on which the nation was founded. Benjamin Franklin, after the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention, was asked by a concerned citizen of Philadelphia what type of government had been created after four months of closed-door meetings by the delegates; he responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Hiatus

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I took a break from posting for a while as I ran an election campaign, but I have decided to start posting again occasionally. Sorry for th...
Tuesday, July 19, 2005

John Roberts

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The president has nominated John Roberts to be the 109th member of the United States Supreme Court. After two presidential campaigns in whi...
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Good op-ed by Senator Cornyn

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Senator John Cornyn has written a reasonable opinion piece about the upcoming Supreme Court nomination "battle" at National Revie...

The Framers on Advice and Consent

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I have posted on this topic before, but with the retirement of Justice O'Connor and the looming Supreme Court vacancy, the question is w...
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Friday, July 01, 2005

O'Connor retires

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Justice Sandra Day O'Connor today informed President Bush that she intends to retire from the Supreme Court upon the nomination and con...
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Sunday, June 12, 2005

The source of authority

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Joel Belz recently wrote a column in World magazine commenting on how God has gradually gone from being explicitly acknowledged as the Crea...
Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Rehnquist to go this month?

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Southern Appeal is reporting that Chief Justice William Rehnquist will announce within the next four weeks that he is retiring from the Su...
Sunday, May 29, 2005

Challenge to Kentucky marriage amendment rejected

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Last November, eleven states, including Kentucky, added constitutional amendments recognizing marriage as it has traditionally been defined,...
Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Howard Morris, RIP

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Howard Morris may not be one of the most familiar names from Hollywood to most Americans, but the name of Ernest T. Bass probably resonates ...
Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Filibuster deal

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News from Washington tonight that a bipartisan group of Senators have reached an agreement that would prevent the Republican leadership from...
Sunday, May 22, 2005

Joe Biden on judicial filibusters

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Senator Joe Biden recently gave a very interesting speech on the history of the Senate and the nature of our constitutional government, all...

The miracle of life

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I am an extraordinarily blessed man. I have two beautiful, wonderful daughters, and the best wife a man could hope for. This week, my post...
Wednesday, May 18, 2005

NYT's strange standard for judges

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In an editorial today, the Times claims that the filibuster is a tool that allows Democrats to block "a few of President Bush's m...
Friday, May 13, 2005

Are you sure that the FMA is unnecessary?

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Thursday, a federal district judge struck down Nebraska's law recognizing marriage as only the union of one man and one woman as a viola...

So the Senate is the world's greatest deliberative body?

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Not with oratory like this : "Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid called President Bush 'a loser' during a civics discussion wi...
Tuesday, May 03, 2005

D.C. in the House

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Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) is sponsoring a bill that would give the District of Columbia one vote in the House of Representatives, and would also...
Monday, May 02, 2005

You make the call

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For the record, I believe that, regardless of which political party is in control of the Senate, filibusters of judicial nominees are wrong....

What did the Framers intend for the Senate?

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Here is the view according to Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), speaking yesterday on NBC's " Meet the Press ": "The pe...
Friday, April 29, 2005

Filibuster frustration

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Bill Frist, Senate majority leader, offered a proposal that would have ended the bickering over whether judicial nominees are denied an up ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2005

A Haunting Specter

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Many conservatives were leery of turning the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee over to Arlen Specter after his post-election re...
Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Deconstructing Ginsburg

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Clinton appointee , recently gave a speech defending, even extolling, the virtues of looking t...

Slippery slope of compromise

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According to this story , Senate Minority leader Harry Reid is proposing a compromise to stave off a manuever that would ban judicial filibu...
Friday, April 22, 2005

Joe Lieberman, shame on you

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I generally have a great deal of respect for Joe Lieberman, so when I came across these two separate speeches, given almost a decade apart, ...
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Thursday, April 21, 2005

The New York Times shifts on filibusters

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On Tom Harkin's 1995 proposal to eliminate the filibuster, as re-printed in the Congressional record, here is a New York Times editoria...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Remembering my father and Ernie Pyle

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My father passed away ten years ago this week, and of course the upcoming anniversary has been on my mind for weeks. He was a World War II ...

Tom DeLay, Harry Reid & SCOTUS

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Tom DeLay has been all over the news lately, taking slings and arrows from political opponents as well as suffering some self-inflicted woun...
Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Cohen says Scalia = Activist?

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In today's New York Times , Adam Cohen has an opinion piece criticizing conservatives, Scalia, Tom DeLay, John Cornyn, and every other ...
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