http://jindal2012blog.com Jindal or Paul 2012? Social Conservative or Libertarian? Join me as I work through the contradictions and have a bit of fun, too! Also an Evangelical Christian and sports fan! Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:00:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Washington Post's Dana Milbrink reports that Sen. Lindsey Graham of SC is trying to make a deal with President Obama: Graham has provided Obama a way out of this standoff: Send KSM to a military tribunal in exchange for Congress abandoning legislation that would deny funding to close Gitmo. Next, ... http://jindal2012blog.com/two-outrageous-political-decisions-by-senator-graham/ I have been getting more and more excited writing and pondering a constitutionalist administration.  Wouldn't it be fun?  Let's stop talking about it and start doing it! But I cannot leave without a discussion of monetary policy.  Cong. Paul cannot End The Fed without an act of Congress.  But he would ... http://jindal2012blog.com/can-a-constitutionalist-president-do-anything-part-5/ What can a constitutionalist President do about the bureaucracy?  It will admittedly take an act of Congress to abolish the Departments of Energy, Education or other agencies.  However, there is plenty to do.  The President can appoint Cabinet secretaries, undersecretaries, ambassadors, judges and United States attorneys.  He or she MUST have ... http://jindal2012blog.com/can-a-constituionalist-president-do-anything-part-4/ Cong. Ron Paul in his manifesto for the Young Americans for Liberty magazine cites education as a crucial area where the federal government needs to have a very limited role.  The Constitution does not speak to education (except in my opinion as far as civil rights is concerned) as a ... http://jindal2012blog.com/can-a-constitutionalist-president-do-anything-part-3/ After ending corporate welfare (That should make President Paul popular with the far left for a day or two) and removing the troops from unnecessary locations around the world (The left will like Paul for the rest of that week), the constitutionalist President now turns to hard stuff:  The budget ... http://jindal2012blog.com/can-a-constitutionalist-president-do-anything-part-2/ It's a great question:  If Cong. Paul wins, can he do anything?  The YAL article says yes.  Paul says it will take the efforts of all lovers of liberty: All of these measures will take a lot of work - a lot more than any one person, even the president of the ... http://jindal2012blog.com/can-a-constitutionist-president-do-anything/ I will spend the next several posts here writing on the wonderful manifesto Cong. Paul penned for the YAL magazine.  (I got it from Lew Rockwell)  It is what a constitutional President would and could do. http://jindal2012blog.com/ron-pauls-manifesto-for-2012-perhaps/ David Paul Kuhn writes (I warn the reader:  There is language I cannot condone in this article) at Real Clear Politics comparing Gov. Jindal with two other leading Republicans:  Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin (who got rare praise from President Obama and immediate criticism from Speaker Pelosi - both compliments as ... http://jindal2012blog.com/gov-jindal-seen-as-nerd-in-what-is-a-great-year-for-nerds/ I do not usually quote the Baltimore Sun nor am I especially interested in New Jersey politics but I could not resist it when the Sun's Ron Smith starts out his op-ed  like this: In these times of economic distress, massive job losse s, shrunken businesses, bloated governments and runaway public ... http://jindal2012blog.com/great-article-in-the-baltimore-sun/ The Virginia Right blog, run by fellow Hanover County resident Tom White has asked me to blog for him.  Here's the announcement: Virginia Right! Welcomes Additional Blogger Sandy Sanders By Tom White, on March 1st, 2010, at 10:00 am I am pleased to announce that effective immediately, Hanover attorney Elwood “Sandy” Sanders has ... http://jindal2012blog.com/that-big-blog-announcement-i-promised-sandy-joins-as-blogger-at-virginia-right/