Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2011/04/21/its-not-what-the-american-people-want/ Alexander's Essay – April 21, 2011 It's NOT 'What the American People Want' It's what our Constitution requires "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." --Thomas Jefferson The oft-repeated mantra of Barack Hussein Obama and his Leftist cadres is that their public service obligation is to accomplish "what the American people want." At best, this constitutes a gross misinterpretation of the constitutional role of the executive, and at worst, it wholly and maliciously discards the intent of that august Founding...

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Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/edition/2011/04/20/chronicle/ Chronicle · April 20, 2011 The Foundation "A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right." --Thomas Paine Editorial Exegesis Obama bows to the Third World "On a campaign fundraising trip to Chicago, Mr. Obama quipped that under the proposed Republican budget plan, 'we would be a nation of potholes, and our airports would be worse than places that we thought -- that we used to call the Third World, but who are now investing in infrastructure.' He failed to elaborate on which developing countries he thinks should be models for the United Stat...