Each year Tom Coburn, M.D., a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, creates his list of wasteful spending in Washington. As a ranking member of the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Senator Coburn has a ringside seat to some of the atrocities of U.S. government spending. His 2008 ... for programs that continue to be ineffective, provided money to groups that mismanaged it, and subsidized programs that might be better left to the public sector. For example, more than $39 million was provided to the National Drug Intelligence Center for the purpose of assisting federal agents with drug inves...

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... with the Constitution. Gun control is a very broad term. It can be used to define the complete banning of guns or just strict enforcement of current laws. According to Larry Craig, "The criminal who wasn't stopped by 20,000 laws won't stop for 20,001" (3). This is a very logical point. Society needs to concentrate on enforcing the laws that are in ... ...

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... action. Bill of Rights The omission of a bill of rights by the Framers was the chief obstacle to the adoption of the Constitution by the states. Many state constitutions had a list of rights. The colonists had just thrown off the yoke of English oppression in order to guarantee their basic freedoms. Why didn't the Constitution have a bill of rights? The Federalists ... , who did not see the need for a bill of rights, felt that a list of specific rights was not necessary. In fact, it was detrimental to protecting individual rights. The opinion of Federalists (as written by Alexander Hamil...

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... . NRA President, Joe Foss, describes his group's convictions this way: "I say all guns are good guns. There are no bad guns. I say the whole nation should be armed. Period" (Landau 39). When asked about the Second Amendment, the battle is "to retake the most precious, most sacred ground on earth," says NRA Executive Vice President, Wayne LaPierre, "This is a battle for ... concept of self-defense. Obviously, it is not in the best interest of criminals to attack victims who are armed and ready to defend themselves. Wright and Rossi found that 39 percent of felons admitted to aborting a cr...

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... topic. According to author Helen Strahinich, people who are pro-gun control argue that congress should pass a law requiring a seven day waiting period so that authorities can do a background check (39). Anti- 2 gun control groups would oppose, saying that criminals will steal guns if they cannot buy them. A waiting period will only keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding ... citizens (39). Gun control groups bring up issues like this all the time. Every time someone comes up with a rebuttal, new information and new issues are brought up. Another issue Strahinich brings ... ...

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... done in New York of 133,000 people showed that 85% of Americans would classify themselves as Christian (Wauzzinski 18). 56% of Americans identify themselves as protestant, 29% catholic (Gallup 39) and seven in ten Americans claim church membership (Gallup 54), and 40% attend church on a regular basis (every week) (Gallup 1).the majority of the American people will tell you that ... one third of Italian Catholics (15,908,000 people) attend mass regularly (adherents.com). In all of Europe in 1998 there were only 286,124,000 pronounced Catholics making up 39% of the population (adherents.c...

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... extreme measures to keep communists out of the Federal Government. Joseph McCarthy was an unknown Senator until February 9, 1950 when he announced to the Women's Republican Club that he had a list of communists who were working for the State Department (Schreker p.72). This speech would mark the beginning of a witch-hunt that would last for many years to come. During the ... and anyone who at one point had been affiliated with the Communist Party throughout the government. This was done in two ways: the loyalty security program and the Attorney Generals list. The loyalty security progra...

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... Third Circuit Court of Appeals held, "the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel guarantees more than the Fifth Amendment right to a fair trial " United States v. Day, 969 F.2d 39, 45. Galin E. Frye has had constant trouble with the law. This case originally stemmed from Mr. Frye being charged with driving while his license was revoked in August of 2007 ... ...

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... people as of 2005) is higher when compared to other countries: Sweden with 1.3, Canada with 1.5, and Australia with 1.3. To go along with these rates, America has a higher gun ownership with 39% when compared to Canada with 29.1%, Australia with 19.4% and Sweden with 15.1%. Many argue that these statistics prove the effectiveness of gun control. Fewer amounts of guns equal less ... ...

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... % (Kruschke 22). The state of South Carolina and the city of Boston experienced similar results when stricter gun control laws were recently enforced. In Boston the homicide rate dropped by 39% and in South Carolina the murder rate dropped by 28% (Kruschke 23). These are just some example of cities and states that have realized that strict gun control is one ... ...

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... to the states for ratification contained provisions for civil liberties, which covered everyone. It also set up a powerful national government. The thirteen states were asked to ratify the Constitution wanting a list of individual rights, as each state had in its constitution. The states would not ratify the Constitution unless a Bill of Rights was included. The first ten amendments became part of ... . It gives us security in ourselves, in our private places and in our homes. Under the eighth amendment, we cannot be given excessive bail. Many judges now have to follow a list, defending ...

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... of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States" [http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html]. There is a long list of "executive" privileges and powers that are listed. This list alone defies the principles of Democracy. Our constitution also consents to more power than congress deserves. In Article 1, Section 8, congress has a supple grasp over the ... ...

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... as a state for all intents and purposes in more than 500 pieces of federal legislation, and its residents pay federal income taxes. In fact, Washington, DC ranks second on the list of federal income tax paid per capita. There are many arguments put forward by people who are either too lazy to think, or too politically motivated to stick with the ... a revolt or attempted coup. This ideal is not mutually exclusive with the idea of congressional representation for the citizens of the capital city. This is by no means an exhaustive list of myths and arguments that promote the denial of rep...

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... statute was unconstitutional insofar as it authorized the use of deadly force to prevent the escape of an apparently unarmed suspect (Lexis, 1985). Now the statute for Tennessee reads: Under 39-11-620 use of deadly force by law enforcement officers states, " (a) A law enforcement officer, after giving notice of such officer's identity as such, may use or threaten to use force ... ...

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... because the prisoner is paralyzed. There have also been cases where they had to repeatedly puncture the prisoner to find a suitable vein. In one case it took as long as 39 minutes. The belief that execution costs less than imprisonment is false. A study by Iowa's Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimates the price of executing a prisoner, after appeals, at about $1 million more than ... ...

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... power. On the other hand, the Federalists countered them saying that the division of the government helped to distribute the power. The Federalists argued that it would be dangerous to list the rights. They argued that their rights should not be listed (Wendel, 2007). The constitution of the United States has had a long journey. It started as the Articles of confederation ... ...

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... or Officer thereof," (U.S. Const. art. I, S 8). Marshall explained in his case opinion that the federal government has the implied power to create a national bank because it would be impossible to list each and every power that the government could have in a single document. He says that if this were the case, the Constitution, "would partake of the prolixity of a legal ... ...

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... and her friend were caught smoking in the school bathroom. She was taken to the principal and her purse was searched. They found rolling papers, marijuana, a pipe, dollar bills, and a list of students who owed her money. TLO tried to appeal in this case because she thought that being searched in school without a warrant was violating her rights. The fourth amendment ... ...

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... 's dark and drizzling. One is shrouded by the hood of his sweat shirt, the other is hyped up by his role as community policer. They each have their own long list of anxieties and fears which eventually leads them to a confrontation. Without a gun, it's a shouting match or maybe even a scuffle. With a gun, we know the ending" (Stromberg 1). This may be true ... ...

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... other jurors do, but they don't participate in the deliberations until they replace an original juror. The jury selection begins with the court clerk's calling twelve people on the jury list and asking them to take a place in the jury box. The judge usually makes a brief statement explaining what kind of case is to be tried and inquiring whether there is ... ...

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Persuasive- How free are we? In the United States we live by our Bill or Rights and our Constitution, which state that we are a free country and list our rights as citizens of this great country. They allow us to defend ourselves, speak our minds, and grant us many other freedoms. However, sometimes people question the amount of ... ...

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... War on Drugs rather than reevaluate it. Not surprisingly, the war rose ever higher in 1986, when Reagan's Anti-Drug Abuse Act added the forfeit of property to the growing list of consequences of drug use and possession. Since this Act, even higher punishment has been implemented. The government has demonstrated incredible hypocrisy on the issue; federally overruling State laws that ... ...

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... is, perhaps, of all the constitutional rights that American's hold dear, the most precious in our hearts. The right that grants us freedom of speech was deliberately first on the list of new priorities, thus suggesting the founding fathers believed the freedom of expression deserved the foremost place in this innovative and radical Constitution. Simply stated, all Americans deserved to be ... ...

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... by a tyrannical, oppressive regime. Although most citizens are quite happy with the current form of government and do not see any "conspiracy" in the brewing, the militia groups have a long list of concerns which I will bring to the forefront in an attempt to get a better understanding of the mindset behind the growing militia movement in America. Okay, so what is the ... ...

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... . This is because they are "expressed" - written into - the constitution. They include the power to regulate trade and the power to declare war on other countries. The constitution does not list the powers given to the states. It does, however, set out what powers the states do not have [51-53]. This was done so that states would not take on ... ...

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