Comments on: Thirteen Clear Factual Errors in Richard Stengel’s Essay on the Constitution (And I Am Looking for Your Help) (Update: My Letter to the Editor)

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:56:24 +0000

I too think it ill advised to toss in the tax example, which many constitutional scholars have argued is correct, even if a few judges (not the Supreme Court) didn’t accept that it is.

Taxes can be intended to be penalties; they need not be primary about revenue. It IS revenue — you pay money to the government. Since we can’t tell how many people will have to pay, how could it be determined when determing the cost of the legislation? The law prevents other means other than reducing it from your tax rebate to collect it. You won’t go to jail or anything for not buying insurance. It is determined by income.

By: Icy Texan

Icy Texan — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:11:41 +0000

Brave Sir Danni ran away.

Oh well. Another lefty troll that, in the final analysis, had absolutely nothing constructive to say — unless it is now considered Constructive to lob ad homs.

By: Icy Texan

Icy Texan — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:21:58 +0000

My chorus isn’t shrinking …

… it’s cold outside.

By: DohBiden

DohBiden — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:42:05 +0000

Danni is a turd.

I’m beginning to despise Anne Coulter and her shilling for the GOP establishment left.

By: daleyrocks

daleyrocks — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:23:23 +0000

Icy – I can’t hear you. You are a member of the shrinking chorus, but I am not expressing any opinions. Racist.

By: Icy Texan

Icy Texan — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:17:27 +0000

Sounds like Danni is picking up his ball and going home.

Ya gotta love him, though, for his “I’m not expressing any opinions of my own; however, all of you are wrong,” line of reasoning.

By: daleyrocks

daleyrocks — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:13:53 +0000

Big group hug for Danni!!!!!!

By: SPQR

SPQR — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:10:26 +0000

Danni, you are a fraud. You pretend to just want to avoid fights, all get along etc. But the reality is that you just want to cover for a man who wrote an opinion piece, while claiming expertise, that made many objectively false claims. Claims that were refuted conclusively by the text itself.

Why? To muddle the political debates, that’s why. Not to “look forward” but to attempt through falsehood to discredit people who rely upon the political institutions of this nation.

And that’s not a legitimate exercise and your little pretend “let’s all get along” act is a fraud.

By: JD

JD — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:08:55 +0000

Why is it that leftists always subject us to their bibble babble of there is no right or no wrong? Or the claim that we are unwilling to consider differences of opinion? This idea that Danni is open to some kind of broad interpretive nuance that we are unable or unwilling to comprehend is BS. Stengel was wrong on the facts. Objectively.

By: Icy Texan

Icy Texan — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:04:44 +0000

In order to solve a problem you need to do the right thing, not the wrong thing.