Big news you probably won't hear in the MSM or anywhere else on campus

Hi all,

Sorry to be a "serial poster" today, but I was very suprised to stumble across this FDA statement posted at http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01362.html.

First and foremost, I have never smoked marijuana ever in my entire life and don't recommend it because I've seen the negative effects it can have on people. However, I've found myself becoming more and more libertarian these days and, even though I still do not condone marijuana use, I understand better the arguments that it's a choice to smoke, which is OK, so long as it's not hurting anyone else in any way. I hope this statement by the FDA will have some effect on the non-wacko non-hippie pandering law makers on the West Coast who enacted the medical marijuana laws. Oh wait, hang on, medical marijuana was a ballot intiative in CA proposed and passed by the wacko hippiesdirectly (I grew up in California, remember and know very well how wacko the hippie wackos are...)

Activism? An admission.

Hello all,

I thought you all might be interested to know that on Monday 4/17/06 in my Labor Law class, Prof. McLaughlin freely (and loudly) admitted that Justice Brennan engaged in BLATENT JUDICIAL ACTIVISM in the opinion he wrote for the Tree Fruits case we studied. If anyone would like to look at the case, the cite is 377 U.S. 58.

In a nutshell, Brennan's analysis completely bypassed the "plain meaning" of the NLRA, skipped directly to the legislative findings, which he ignored and interpreted extremely narrow to the point of absurdity and disrespect to the men and women who actually made the law, and (suprise suprise) reached a pro-labor result. He did it in order to save a clearly unconstitutional statute. In the process, he rendered impotent the only clear and black letter section of the Landrum-Griffin amendements to the NLRA, which happened to be an anti-picketing protection for employers and management.

I've contacted the Vatican to inquire if it's an "eligible miracle" when a liberal professor admits that a liberal SCOTUS judge is an activist. The canonization of Saint Randolph of White Plains may well have begun. OK, that's a joke. I do commend and applaud Prof. McLaughlin for admitting that Brennan was a judicial activist. I hope he hasn't put his tenure in jeopardy. (That's a joke, too.)

Interesting Mark Twain quote I came across...

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."
-from Pudd’n'head Wilson

The Real Reason Why We Should be Cheering for George Mason Univ. in the Final Four this weekend

I found this information at www.cato.org. It seems our Founding Father, George Mason, was extremely influential on James Madison and, even better, the first Libertarian in the USA...

Thank You George Mason
"Let's hope that all this attention being lavished on the George Mason University basketball team focuses some attention on the man himself," writes Scripps-Howard columnist Dale McFeatters. "If George Mason isn't exactly a forgotten founding father, he is certainly one of the lesser known, which is too bad because of his great legacy to us -- the written guarantee of our fundamental civil liberties. Mason drafted the prototype of the Bill of Rights in 1776 as part of Virginia's state constitution. He fought in vain to have them included in the U.S. Constitution but after campaigning relentlessly succeeded two years later in having them added as the first 10 amendments to that document."
In "George Mason University, Much More Than Basketball," Cato policy analyst Radley Balko writes: "Mason was never president. Nor did he sign the Constitution. But he was enormously influential in helping craft it. In fact, George Mason was probably early America's most eloquent defender of individual liberty. Principled and uncompromising, Mason was a man who loathed politics but understood the urgency of the times in which he lived, and engaged in politics to help ensure his new country put a premium on freedom.
"George Mason University today in many ways remains a fitting tribute to its namesake. The school's economics department in particular is arguably the most market-oriented in the country. Just as Mason himself was self-educated and unswervingly principled, GMU's economics department has put a premium on finding staff who value individual rights, a decentralized state, and good scholarship, and has placed less emphasis on Ivy League credentials and the usual academic fluff."