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>The Supreme Court and Obamacare  - Ron Paul - 
More nonsense from Paul. He said, "It is federalism and states’ rights that should protect our liberty, not nine individuals on a godlike Supreme Court."

So it's States' Rights that protect liberty? The same States Rights argument that fueled the Southern Rebellion to keep their slave system intact? The same rebellion that Ron Paul argued Lincoln was wrong in supressing?

It's individual liberty that ought to be protected by a limited government -- not States' Rights.

Furthermore, in the Republican debate of Aug 11th, Ron Paul argued that the Federal Government had no authority to prevent a state from violating it's citizens rights. Paul is a State Rightist first, an advocate of individual liberty second -- and a poor one at that.



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Beginning of the headline : Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments concerning the constitutionality of the Obamacare law, focusing on the mandate requiring every American to buy health insurance or pay fines enforced by the IRS.Hopefully the Court will strike down this abomination, but we must recognize that the federal judiciary has an abysmal record when it comes to protecting liberty... Read More
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