During President Obama’s visit to the G-20 Summit this week, he intends to visit with several gay groups and to try and push Putin into taking action to allow gay rights.
COMMENTS:
That’s our President, always sticking his damned nose into
someone else’s business when he can’t even run his own country. I can just hear him now: "By the way, Vladdy, could you possibly have a chat with and, while you're at it, you damned-well better allow gay rights in Russia."
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. I know you have said, and I have double-checked myself,
that FBI statistics show that violent crime decreases as more residents have
guns. How do we compare with European
nations with strong gun control? (Josie
~ Manteca, CA)
A. The same. A recent
Harvard study verifies that countries which do not allow gun ownership have much
higher rates of violent crime.
Q. Delta Airlines says its costs for providing employee healthcare
programs will go up by $100 million next year under ObamaCare? How can the government force companies to eat
that much in additional cost? (Lacrecia
~ Missoula, MT)
A. They won’t eat those costs; the costs will be passed on
to you, the flying public. You will pay
higher food costs, higher costs for goods and services, higher local and state
taxes, and you may see some earnings of companies decline, meaning the
stockholders will pick up the tab. This is a very high incentive for companies to trim lay off as many employees as possible.
Q. What is your opinion on whether or not the President has
the authority to go into Syria? (Royce ~
Seattle, WA)
A. The power to declare war rests with Congress,
period. In 1973, recognizing that
advances in technology and weaponry could possibly make it necessary for the
President, in order to protect the United States from attack, to take limited military
action for a period not to exceed 90 days.
Legal scholars argue that the new law is unconstitutional and, as a
strict Constitutionalist, I agree; it would take a Constitutional Amendment to
legalize such a law. Although no one has
yet challenged that law, I do not believeit would authorize a
president to take military action against a country or faction of its citizens
who pose no immediate threat to the United States.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“When you decide to get involved in a military operation in
a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan,
to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United
States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that
responsibility.” ~ Colin Powell
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