Fix states' rights first.The article "No Child Left Unbrainwashed" (April 19 issue) is about yet another unconstitutional act of Congress. The article suggests that we contact our congressmen about reversing this act and of course we should. But I would like to point out that in this we are being asked to use the methods of democracy to try and keep a damaged republic intact. My one objection to this and other articles that speak of the feds overstepping their constitutional bounds is that these articles fail to point out the fundamental problem that allows this unchecked expansion of federal power to take place. We have state legislatures resorting to passing toothless, impotent im·po·tent adj. 1. Incapable of sexual intercourse, often because of an inability to achieve or sustain an erection. 2. Sterile. Used of males. resolutions against outrageous federal intrusions into state affairs. The underlying problem as I see it is that state governments have no voice in Congress. They lost it with the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913. Originally, the Senate was intended to be the voice of state governments in Congress. Making the senators' appointment a matter of popular vote, as the 17th Amendment has done, leaves them unaccountable to their state government. With their six-year terms, and representing the entire population of their state, they have little accountability even to their own constituents. You can bet that Mr. Bush's "No Child Left Behind" act would never have gotten past the Senate, nor would numerous other unconstitutional acts of Congress since 1913 that have sent centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. federal power sky rocketing, if the Senate actually represented the state governments. Furthermore, since the Senate must approve all treaties, it is very unlikely that we would have entered into many of the sovereignty-destroying treaties that have been approved by this Insider-infested Senate that the 17th Amendment created. THE NEW AMERICAN and the John Birch Society John Birch Society, ultraconservative, anti-Communist organization in the United States. It was founded in Dec., 1958, by manufacturer Robert Welch and named after John Birch, an American intelligence officer killed by Communists in China (Aug., 1945). expend great effort to educate the public to the peril we are in, but it seems to me that doing this while tailing to connect these things "These Things" is an EP by She Wants Revenge, released in 2005 by Perfect Kiss, a subsidiary of Geffen Records. Music Video The music video stars Shirley Manson, lead singer of the band Garbage. Track Listing 1. "These Things [Radio Edit]" - 3:17 2. to the 17th Amendment is a little like continually adding water to the cooling system cooling system: see air conditioning; internal-combustion engine; refrigeration. cooling system Apparatus used to keep the temperature of a structure or device from exceeding limits imposed by needs of safety and efficiency. of an automobile with a leaky leak·y adj. leak·i·er, leak·i·est Permitting leaks or leakage: a leaky roof; a leaky defense system. Adj. 1. radiator but never bothering to fix the leak. Much of what we spend so much time and effort fighting against would take care of itself if we could fix this leak in our republic. DARREL RUSSON Snowflake, Arizona Snowflake is a town in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. It was founded in 1878 by William Jordan Flake and Erastus Snow, Mormon pioneers and colonizers.[1] According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town is 4,958. |
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