Sunday, January 19, 2014

We can only hope that at the end of Ryan Bell's very public experiment we will come to understand that God has to return to earth to solve humanity's problems is the exact equivalent of claiming to live without the Creator of the Universe, whom many refer to erroneously as God. We can only hope because we will have only wasted another year that could be used solving these problems.

Monday, January 13, 2014

It is amazing how lawyers can create new issues by creatively re-framing old issues. The founders granted the right to make recess appointments to avoid gaps in the Executive Branch because the Senate was unable to give advice and consent given the onerous nature of travel by horse and buggy in those days. The issue was gaps in the government not the right to make recess appointments. The constitutional issue is the tendency of the Senate to create gaps in the Executive Branch by not approving Presidential nominations. It is not when the President can make a recess appointment. Guess what the SCOTUS is about to hear arguments on.

Something seems to be wrong with a system that does not allow a citizen to bring Congress before the courts for not performing its Constitutional duties but allows a citizen to bring the Executive Branch before the courts for attempting to satisfy the Constitutional mandate that was neglected by the Congress.