Recent content by Thomas Paine

You have to go further than that by not paying taxes, not driving on public roads, disclaiming protection under the Bill of Rights and the rest of the U.S. Constitution, etc.

Please advise us how your next trip to the barber shop/hair salon goes when you refuse to pay for your haircut because the barber/hairdresser didn't sign a written contract with you to cut your hair for a set price.

You can google the U.S. Constitution if you don't have a copy of it at home. By the way, you don't have to sign a contract to make it enforceable. When you go to a barber shop or hair salon for a haircut, you likely wait until a barber or hair dresser is available and then you sit in the chair...

Let me put this another way. The U.S. Constitution is a contract between the governed and its elected leaders. Furthermore, the U.S. Constitution grants or recognizes certain powers to its elected leaders. One of those powers is the power for government to take a person's property for just...

It all depends on what additional facts the OP provides regarding his status as a property owner. As for association rules, those rules are in addition to local ordinances. At the end of the day, local ordinances will trump association rules.

In other words, critics of the neo-conservatives are presumed guilty of anti-semitism until proven innocent. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Do we live in the United States of America where the rule of law is or should be that a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty or do we live in the...

Those bastards!

Interesting how additional facts can change the tenor of a particular case. Toxic waste is a valid but extreme example. If a person's property is kept in a way that has a negative effect on a neighbor's property value, then the neighbor can probably bring a nuisance suit against the property...

The late Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote in a past U.S. Supreme Court decision that government has always had the right to take a person's property for public use and for just compensation to that person. This is embodied in the Fifth Amendment. I agree with Rehnquist and the Fifth...

For that matter, why doesn't Barack Hussein Obama just drop all pretense and announce that he and his liberal allies in Congress will enact legislation whereby every American citizen shall simply assign each and every paycheck over to the United States government and that some federal bureacrat...

All this really tells me is that some neo-conservatives are ripping a page out of the liberals' playbook whereby any critic of any liberal policy is labeled as a racist, sexist, or homophobe in order to change the tone of the debate. In this case, some neo-conservatives are simply mislabeling...

Your friend's position is just plain illogical. Let's assume arguendo that all neo-conservatives are pro-Israel (doubtful but let's imagine this for a moment). There is an even larger number of folks who do not consider themselves neo-conservative but who are pro-Israel (eg. a lot of Jewish...

Well, its time for us to start taking over the GOP from the bottom up so we can purge those neo-con hijackers right out of the GOP.

When is Cornyn up for re-election?

Good luck, buddy! Seeking advice at this late stage doesn't help but it reminds the rest of us to seek advice sooner. Let us know what transpired afterward.