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In this post: The Iran Nuclear Agreement Broader Ramifications Same-sex Marriage Decision & Religious Liberty   The 2016 Campaigns The Iran Nuclear Agreement Obama and his lackeys have proven once again what miserable negotiators they are.  They have given away the farm and gotten hardly anything in return.  They may or may not have stalled the Iranian march to nuclear weapons for a few years – inspection rules require 24 day notice for specific sites (plenty of time for shell games like Saddam played in Iraq), and are subject to a committee which Iran sits on.  And we don’t even know all the places they may be hiding stuff.  Apparently the deal not only lifts the embargo sanctions, including conventional weapons, but gives Iran tens of billions of dollars to bolster their economy, and much greater ability to foster terrorism throughout the world, and regional instability, much more than their current level as the prime ...

I woke up this morning to discover I was in a different country, one ruled by 9 unelected, black-robed ideologues every bit as tyrannical and ominous as the Imams of Iran.  They followed their radical ideologies to lay down the edict that same-sex marriage is the law of the land.  Judicial overreach and activism is running rampant.  Now we have 2 of the 3 branches of government rapidly expanding their powers, and the third timidly abrogating theirs at a time the others need some checks and balances.  The legislative branch needs to man-up & legally correct executive and judicial overreach.  Dodd-Frank was legislative social engineering overreach of the legislative branch that had similarly disastrous consequences – economic, causing the crash & recession we’re still emerging from. Justices Scalia & Roberts wrote scathing dissents, criticizing the majority’s “hubris” to change several thousands of years of universal societal norm, their so...