"In that case [Santa Clara Vs. Southern Pacific Railroad] Chief Justice Waite told the lawyers before the proceedings began: 'The Court does not wish to hear argument of the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits a state to deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of the opinion that it does.' That utterance became the pernicious seed from which the beast was born - namely, that a fiction, a corporation, may hold rights equal to those of human beings...Justice Hugo Black observed in Conn. General, Co. Vs. Johnson that of the cases in which the Fourteenth Amendment was applied during the first fifty years after its adoption, 'less than one-half of one percent invoked it in protection of the Negro race, and more than fifty percent asked that its benefits be extended to corporations.' In the century following the amendment's passage, only two members of our high court are said to have challenged the central fiction. Perhaps in the abstract, arming the corporation with rights identical to those of the citizen seamed fair enough, but in practice it was the equivalent of giving a bulldozer and an ant equal rights to run over each other." (emphasis mine) - With Justice for None - Destroying an American Myth, by Gerry Spence (Attorney)
"Though [Bill Clinton] once had sweet nothings to whisper in her ear, after Gennifer Flowers told the world of her affair with Bill Clinton, he reportedly denounced her to his troopers in terms unbecoming of the president who claims credit for the Violence Against Women Act. He called her a 'F----g slut,' and demanded to know 'What does that whore think she's doing to me?'" - High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, by Ann Coulter
The 12 Best #HillarySoQualified Tweets - pjmedia.com
"The Pentagon's calculation that it owns or rents 702 bases in about 130 countries -- over and above 6000 bases in the United States - is a gross underestimate because it fails to include installations in such places as Kosovo and Bosnia, as well as Iraq and Afghanistan, and secret installations in Israel, Australia, and England, among others...Between the alliance with France in the Revolutionary War in 1778 and the creation of NATO in 1949, the United States did not enter a formal alliance with any country. Yet we are now treaty-bound to defend sixty nations on five continents..." - Day of Reckoning, by Patrick Buchanan, 2007
"The aggregate national debt had grown from $22 billion in 1932 to just under $400 billion in 1970. By 1979 the debt had doubled to $800 billion. The difficulty with a debt that doubles in ten years is that the interest compounds to the point that it can no longer be paid out of current revenues. Once the interest itself is debt financed, the compounding accelerates...Interest payments [on the national debt] is a misnomer. The interest
is not actually being paid. It is being borrowed and added to the debt.
So, in reality, we are paying interest on the interest from previous
years." - The Coming Economic Earthquake,
by Larry Burkett (Note: This book was published in 1991 when our
national debt was still under $4 trillion dollars. Today, it is
somewhere between $19 trillion and $100 trillion, depending on who's
cooking, I mean, keeping the books!)
