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Healthcare Regulations, Advancing Technology Create Opportunities For Solutions Providers
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Education IT News For VARs — April 28, 2014
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SMB IT Market Requires Dedicated Sales Strategy
Business Solutions asked industry experts "Why VARs Should Set Their Sights On SMBs" for the Business Solutions 2014 Partner Program Insider. In addition to the insights in that article, these industry leaders also describe the current health of the SMB market from an IT spend perspective and give their opinions on the best time to sell.
Education IT News For VARs — April 21, 2014
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UPDATE 2-Carrefour reassures on China and France, rest of Europe remains tough
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* Like-for-like sales down 1.1 pct vs 2.9 pct drop in first quarter
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PARIS, July 18 (Reuters) - Carrefour said business was improving at its core French hypermarkets and sales turned positive in China for the first time since 2011, further reassuring investors about boss Georges Plassat's ability to revive Europe's largest retailer.
Growth in Brazil, Carrefour's largest market after France, slowed in the quarter and trading conditions remained tough in austerity-hit Western Europe, especially Italy.
Chief Financial Officer Pierre-Jean Sivignon told reporters the market consensus for 2013 earnings before interest and taxes of around 2.2 billion euros ($2.88 billion) was "reasonable", provided exchange rates in Latin American currencies did not worsen versus the euro.
"France is on the right track with continued encouraging signs in hypermarkets while the situation remains very challenging in Southern Europe and emerging markets continue to deliver good growth," Sivignon later told analysts.
Emerging markets were a bright spot, with like-for-like sales in China up 0.4 percent, after declining 2.3 percent in the first quarter, a performance CM-CIC Securities analysts said in a note was an "excellent surprise".
Carrefour said it planned a steady expansion in China - which accounted for six percent of revenue in 2012 - targeting 20 store openings a year. It expects to be present in 100 Chinese cities within three years against 70 now.
Results in Brazil remained positive, though like-for-like sales growth slowed to 7.1 percent from 10.6 percent in the first quarter, a situation Sivignon tied in part to the unfavourable timing of Easter.
By 1042 GMT, Carrefour shares had gained 2.42 percent. Its stock is up 15 percent this year, outperforming a 3 percent rise in its European sector.
The stock trades at 14.7 times 12-month forward earnings against 13.36 times for Casino and 10.85 times for Tesco, a premium analysts have tied to hopes Carrefour will deliver on its turnaround effort.
Carrefour has struggled for years in Europe, partly due to a reliance on hypermarkets as time-pressed customers shop more locally and online and buy general goods from specialists.
France, which contributes more than 40 percent of group sales, is key for investors to assess whether Carrefour can finally come to grips with its problems in Europe.
Under his recovery plan, Plassat, who became Carrefour chief executive in May 2012, has vowed to cut costs, improve price competitiveness and simplify product offerings, notably in the troubled non-food sector, and boost capital expenditure to renovate ageing stores.
The world's largest retailer after Wal-Mart by sales said second-quarter sales were 20.46 billion euros, near the average 20.47 billion forecast in a Reuters poll of six analysts.
Stripping out fuel and currency effects, revenue was flat after a 0.2 percent rise in the first quarter of 2013.
"Overall we felt the message from the company is positive and core French operations seem to be moving the right way," said Citi analyst Alastair Johnston
The decline in same-store sales at Carrefour's French hypermarkets slowed to 1.1 percent in the second quarter from 2.9 percent in the first, beating average market expectations of a 1.8 percent drop.
"It's too early to call it a trend but we are seeing encouraging signs of increasing traffic at French hypermarkets, Sivignon said.
In Spain, the situation was slowly improving but it had worsened in Italy amid slumping food consumption, with like-for-like sales down 9.9 percent after a 6.5 percent fall in the first quarter. ($1 = 0.7637 euros) (Editing by James Regan and Jon Boyle)
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"I got this recipe from Laura (aka "amorsalado" on LJ), and it's a great recipe she once cooked that her non-vegetarian husband told her she could make for him anytime. It convinced him of the tastiness of vegetarian food. :) She said, "This General Tso's recipe was what sold him, and it's so easy, too!""
Serving Size: 1 (82 g)
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"This recipe has a lot of potential! But I agree with the other reviewer that the proportions were off. I think of General Tso's chicken or seitan or whatever as being sweet as well as salty - this was just very, very salty. I am pretty sure this is because of the amount of soy sauce combined with how much you have to reduce the sauce to get it to thicken up. Next time I make this, I am going to use low-sodium soy sauce, double the amount of sugar, and add a little cornstarch to get it to thicken up without reducing quite so much. I quite liked the method for frying seitan and will definitely use it again."
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Stuffed Artichokes & Pic
I decided to make some stuffed artichokes tonight. They look so cute, all ready to go into the oven, so I thought I'd post the pic :)
Stuffed Artichokes
1 lb ground meat (beef/veal/pork blend)
2 eggs
1 cup romano
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
1 clove minced garlic
salt & pepper
(Or however you like to make your meatballs!)
4 steamed artichokes, thorns clipped and choke removed
1 cup pasta sauce
Put the sauce in the baking dish, and add a few T of water to keep it moist.
Stuff meat in the center and between the leaves of the artichokes
Cover tightly with foil
Bake at 350 for an hour
i absolutely love artichokes! this looks wonderful!
I make stuffed artichokes all the time by sautéing chopped onion and garlic in butter/ olive oil. Than mix in equal parts of almond flour, crushed pork rinds, and grated parm. Season to taste. Fill previously cooked artichokes and serve. Yummy!
I will try the op's version for a different twist. Sounds so good.
Sounds fantabulous
So sorry they moved your picture. YUM!
I can't see the picture.......sounds delish! A little sign says the picture was moved....can you tell me where you moved it to?
This is a really old thread; she probably just cleaned up her tinypic account in the meantime. Looks like a good recipe, though, and artichokes are on sale at my local store this week - I'm glad it was bumped. :)
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Junior Corinne Buie matched a career high with two goals in the win.
Feb. 1, 2013
STORRS, Conn. - The Providence College women's ice hockey team defeated the Connecticut Huskies, 5-0, on Friday, Feb. 1. The win gives the Friars their third Hockey East series win of the season. The victory moves the Friars overall record to 13-11-4 and their Hockey East record to 7-6-1.
The Friars took a strong three goal lead during the first period. Sophomore Beth Hanrahan (Poolesville, Md.) notched the first goal for the Friars at 14:25 of the period with a shot that went top-shelf on Husky goaltender Elaine Chuli. Hanrahan was assisted on the play by classmate Brooke Simpson (Boxboro, Mass.) and junior defenseman Maggie Pendleton (Woodbury, Minn.).
Less than two minutes later the Friars added on to their lead with a power-play goal at 12:47 of the period. Senior Jessica Vella (Pickering, Ontario) tallied her first power-play goal of the season on the play with a tip in front off of junior Rebecca Morse's (Westfield, N.J.) shot from the point. Freshman Lexi Slattery(Lino Lakes, Minn.) assisted on the play.
Junior Corinne Buie(Edina, Minn.) rounded out the scoring for the first period with a short-handed unassisted goal with 4:27 remaining in the period. The short-handed tally was Buie's second of the season.
Freshman goaltender Sarah Bryant(Bethlehem, Pa.) stopped all seven shots she faced during the first period, while Chuli stopped five of the eight shots she faced.
Providence extended their lead to 4-0 during the second period with its second power-play goal of the game. Sophomore Haley Frade(Marion, Mass.) scored for the Friars with 2:24 left in the period. Frade notched her fourth power-play goal of the season on the play. Slattery and Morse earned their second assists of the game on the play.
The Friars notched one goal during the third period to wrap-up the scoring for the game. Buie tallied her second goal of the game and 13 of the season at 17:03 of the period. Senior Jessica Cohen (Anchorage, Alaska) assisted Buie on the play to notch her fifth assist on the season.
The Friars outshot the Huskies 31-19 in the match. Bryant earned her second shutout of the season in her ninth win with 19 saves.
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Registration open for national archery schools program
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Original Published: 12/31/2013
Sign-ups and registration for the Ohio National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) State Tournament will open Friday, Jan. 3, 2014, at 8 a.m., according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR).
More than 40,000 Ohio students participated in NASP as part of their physical education curriculum during the 2012-2013 academic year.
The state tournament has openings for 1,512 student archers from certified NASP schools across Ohio.
Registrations will close once the 1,512 openings are filled. Last year, more than 1,000 students were registered for the 2013 tournament in less than three hours.
ODNR will host the 2014 State NASP Tournament on Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. in conjunction with the 2014 Arnold Sports Festival at Veterans Memorial, located at 300 West Broad St., Columbus, Ohio 43215.
NASP is a school curriculum currently taught in 650 Ohio schools, making Ohio the third-largest program in the United States.
Instruction takes place during two weeks of physical education classes and is designed to teach international target archery skills to students in grades 4-12. Students with high-ranking scores may be eligible for scholarships through Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio.
Individual archers and teams may also qualify for the NASP National Championship, which will be held May 9-10, 2014, at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Ky.
April Bartenschlag of Philo High School in Duncan Falls, Ohio, scored a 296 out of 300 at the 2013 NASP National Tournament in Louisville, Ky. She was named the top high school female archer, top overall female archer, won a $5,000 college scholarship and was named to the NASP All-American Team.
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I understand your point. Do you understand mine?
My counterpoint is that value is fundamentally subjective.
My point is to look at this devoid of emotion: In the long run, if you have something that that will help your business more than not having it, is it worth paying the price for it. Domains are like real estate on the World Wide Web, and the old adage still applies: "Location, location, location."
But I agree, I doubt Ron Paul will pay it either.
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Aside, look at the numbers. That is really the only thing that should figure into the equation.
At what price does it make economic sense for both parties to strike a deal?
I find this debate both amusing and depressing.
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2010 Ford F-350 Super Duty XLT Crew Cab LB DRW 4WD Review
Powerful. Upgraded to 410 and has tow package. this truck takes off fast even with a 12K lb trailer behind it. Inside room is great in front and back. Nice size truck bed. Excellent work truck
exhaust cleaning system. fuel system issues. transmission isnt great
Haus — This truck has been an excellent work truck. It will tow anything you put behind it and braking is good. This truck hauls a 12k lb work trailer daily. It has always done the job I needed it to do. With this type of use, we didnt see problems until after 75k miles. I suggest buying the extended warranty. The new exhaust cleaning system is a pain. It makes the truck run higher rpm's. Have had a couple issues but could be because this truck is used daily pulling heavy equipment many miles. Had a new fuel pump, radiator and fuel rail system replaced. Transmission also has been leaking but no cracks were found. overall it is a powerful truck. But I do look forward to the new Ford diesel engines
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Dipendra Paude of Nepal's tourism ministry, which controls all international climbing expeditions, told The Telegraph the dead climbers were from Spain, Germany and Nepal.
The Telegraph said the missing included five French nationals, a Canadian and an Italian climber.
A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa could not immediately confirm that a Canadian was among those missing.
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The identities of the other victims were still being confirmed.
Ten other climbers survived the avalanche but many were injured and were flown to hospitals by rescue helicopters, Kuwar said.
Rescue pilot Pasang, who uses only one name, said three injured French citizens and two Germans had been transported to hospitals in Kathmandu.
He said rescuers were also attempting to bring the bodies of the dead back to the base camp.
Weather conditions were deteriorating and it was not possible to continue air searches of the mountain Sunday afternoon, Kuwar said.
The avalanche hit the climbers at a camp at 7,000 metres (22,960 feet) early in the morning as they were preparing to head toward the summit, which is 8,156 metres (26,760 feet) high.
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More Evidence An Article V Convention is a "Convention of the States"
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Earlier this year, I documented one of the reasons we know an Article V convention is a "convention of the states" rather than a mass popular gathering: Founding Era documents tell us so. I listed several such documents. (Subsequent to the Founding, in the case of Smith v. Union Bank, the Supreme Court also referred to an Article V convention as a "convention of the states.")
Here is another piece of evidence:
In 1788, New York ratified the Constitution, but the state ratifying convention called for extensive amendment. In a circular letter to the other states, it urged that an amendments convention be called. On February 4, 1789, therefore, the New York state assembly, the lower house of the legislature, debated whether to submit an application to Congress for an Article V convention. Only four assemblymen spoke to the issue, but two of them characterized the gathering as a "convention of the states."
Both of those two were highly significant figures. Samuel Jones had been a key member of the ratifying convention. So also had John Lansing, Jr., a respected judge. Lansing, furthermore, had been a delegate to the Constitutional Convention itself.
No one called the amendments convention anything else, although the eventual application used the term "Convention of Deputies from the several States." The term "Deputy" was a synonym for "agent"—in this case, the agent of one's state.
You can read the legislative proceedings in volume 23 of the Documentary History of the Ratification of the United States Constitution.
I have updated the earlier posting accordingly.
Embracing Foreign Languages
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Republican Congressman Mike Coffman and his Democratic opponent Andrew Romanoff held a public debate yesterday—all in Spanish. It was billed as the first non-English candidate debate in Colorado state history.
Well, maybe not. Hispanics settled Colorado long before Anglos did. When I was practicing law in Denver in the 1970s and 1980s (before embarking on my academic career), I had Hispanic clients who traced their family's Colorado residence back to the 1700s. So I suspect there were Spanish-language political debates within Colorado well before there were English-language ones.
People concerned about large non-English speaking populations in the United States needn't worry. We have had them before, all through our history. Much of the debate over the U.S. Constitution in Pennsylvania in 1787 and 1788 was held in German: Speakers of that language made up perhaps 40% of the state population. Dutch was still widely spoken in New York.
During the 20th century, politicians such as New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia campaigned in Italian and Yiddish as well as English because large parts of the city's population used Italian and Yiddish in daily life. Yet today most of the descendants of those Italian speakers know little, if any, of their ancestral tongue. The descendants of the Yiddish speakers know words like "shlemiel" and maybe a few vulgarities, but that's about it. I'm shocked at how many second generation Mexican-Americans can speak hardly any Spanish and how many second generation Chinese- and Japanese-Americans know hardly any of their parents' language.
Don't get me wrong. In my view, it is imperative that Americans know English, and I think competency in English should be a requirement for citizenship. But I also think it is a mistake for immigrants not to pass on their native tongues to their children. Spanish speakers should teach their kids Spanish; speakers of Indian tribal languages should pass their own languages on to the rising generation. I have long regretted that my father, who although a native of this country was raised in a Yiddish-speaking household, did not teach me that language when I was at an age when I could have easily absorbed it. He could done this by speaking to me exclusively in Yiddish. I could have learned English quite well from my Nova Scotia-born mother and from the larger culture.
Knowing a second language not only enriches one's knowledge base; it is also a window into another way of seeing the world, into a different way of thinking. The more a foreign language diverges from English, the more different its perspective. The bilingual person enjoys the kind of additional depth provided by seeing through two eyes instead of one, or in color rather than in black and white.
Moreover, there is good evidence that when one studies foreign languages in addition to English, it improves one's knowledge of English beyond any advantage from devoting those extra hours solely to English. This is particularly true of Latin.
In my view, any American with any pretensions to a college-level education should be fluent in English, but also (1) know the rudiments of Latin (both for its linguistic and cultural benefits) and (2) be conversant in at least one modern language.
I walked the walk when raising my own daughters: I taught all three basic spoken Latin from childhood. The youngest, Sarah, and the eldest, Rebecca, went on to study Latin literature in school. Sarah is reasonably conversant in Spanish, and now has branched out into Hebrew and Greek. Rebecca, now a Latin teacher, also speaks Japanese, as does her husband (although he is not of Asian ancestry). Deborah, my "central" daughter, not only imbibed Latin in childhood, but has studied German and a smattering of Italian and Russian.
I should add that my brother has given his own children the same sort of advantage. He is fluent in Italian, and speaks to his son and daughter only in that language. His son recently entered college, where he is majoring in business, but supplementing it with Italian.
I'm not suggesting that everyone should have that level of linguistic interest. I am arguing only that in addition to insisting that Americans all know English, we should embrace the variety and the insights offered by many other languages.
The Washington Post Picks Up the Flag from the Convention Alarmists
Filed under: All Postings, Article V, The Founding, supreme court
The past week saw yet another assault on those reformers who seek to cure federal dysfunction by promoting a "Convention for proposing Amendments."
The latest attack took the form of an opinion column that in content offered nothing new. It featured many of the usual errors of commission and omission: The author confused a "Convention for proposing Amendments" with a constitutional convention. He alleged that convention protocols are unknown, and that "anything goes" with "no rules, guideposts, or procedures." He asserted that the courts won't provide any guidelines and that the convention would threaten "the freedoms we take for granted under the Bill of Rights." He demonstrated no awareness whatsoever of the history behind the amendment process nor of the long line of judicial decisions, from the Supreme Court and other tribunals, prescribing ground rules for that process.
But this alarmist column was distinctive in two respects. It was not penned by one of the conspiracy types with whom we usually associate such stuff. It was written by Robert Greenstein, a Washington, D.C. insider who served in the Carter and Clinton administrations and on the Obama transition team. Moreover, the medium of publication was the liberal establishment's iconic newspaper, the Washington Post.
So why are pillars of the liberal establishment picking up the flag from rightwing conspiratorialists?
The answer to this question has three parts:
* They are resorting to a playbook that was, in fact, scripted not by conservatives but by the Left;
* the Left has a great deal to lose if the convention movement goes forward; and
* at least some establishment Leftists have become concerned about reformers' recent successes.
First, as to the playbook:
For many years after the Founding, no one seems to have confused an amendments convention with a constitutional convention. For decades, everyone seems to have recognized that an amendments convention was a convention of states that—like all previous interstate gatherings—was nothing more than a diplomatic task force of state government representatives ("commissioners") operating under a prescribed agenda.
At the turn of the last century, however, when state legislatures were applying for a convention to propose direct election of U.S. Senators, a few opponents began to contend that any such gathering would be a "constitutional convention." During the 1960s and 1970s, the liberal establishment elaborated this contention into the "runaway convention" scenario often advanced today.
Several perceived threats precipitated the Left's invention of the runaway scenario. The first was an effort by Senator Everett Dirksen (R.-Ill.) for a convention to propose an amendment overruling the Supreme Court's legislative reapportionment decisions. The second was a movement to adopt a federal balanced budget amendment. The third was talk of a convention to propose an amendment reversing the Supreme Court's abortion decision in Roe v. Wade.
Russell Caplan's book Constitutional Brinksmanship (Oxford University Press, 1988) chronicles some of the methods the Left used to respond to those perceive threats. Senators Robert Kennedy (D.-N.Y.) and Joe Tydings (D.-Md.) led opposition in the Senate, and several Kennedy associates, such as Theodore Sorensen and Arthur Goldberg, led a public disinformation campaign. Various liberal academics also participated.
Perhaps the most heated anti-convention rhetoric came from the New Yorker's Richard Rovere, a Kennedy sycophant. Rovere charged that a convention could "reinstate segregation and even slavery; throw out much or all of the Bill of Rights . . eliminate the Fourteenth Amendment's due-process clause . . . and perhaps, for good measure, eliminate the Supreme Court itself." In the 1980s, Chief Justice Warren Burger, apparently concerned for the power of his court, adopted a less heated version of the same line.
From the participants' viewpoint, the disinformation campaign was an unqualified success: It frightened enough people effectively to disable one of the Constitution' most important checks and balances. Unfortunately, it was a disaster for the country, because it removed a crucial constitutional curb on federal overreaching.
During next 20 years, figures on the political Left found it unnecessary to do their own heavy lifting because many naive conservatives did it for them by alarming enough people to defeat all efforts to impose restraint, fiscal or otherwise, on Washington, D.C.
A few years ago, however, the tide began to change. Several scholars, I among them, undertook previously-neglected legal and historical research into the amendment procedure. We restored for all to read the rules as the Founders understood them and as the courts apply them. Then Mark Levin publicized these findings in his best-selling book, The Liberty Amendments.
Empowered by this new information, state lawmakers began to resume their constitutional responsibilities in the amendment process. Most state legislatures now participate in the Assembly of State Legislatures, an organization planning for a possible amendments convention. Since 2011, at least 11 states have adopted at least 15 formal applications for a convention. Most of those applications are targeted at federal fiscal excess.
Obviously, reinvigorating of a procedure by which the people, acting through their state legislatures, can check federal overreaching, is not something that people like Mr. Greenstein and other Washington, D.C. power brokers want to see. It poses to them the threat of authority seeping out of Washington and back to the state capitals and to the people at large. Hence their wish to bury the movement as quickly as they can. If scaremongering from the Right won't do the job, then they'll try scaremongering from the Left.
Several years ago, I advised reformers that they would know they were winning when the liberal establishment stopped using misguided conservatives as cannon fodder, and entered the fray directly. That has now happened.
I further advised that the power of the Left would pose a far greater challenge than the arguments of conservatives. Reformers have largely overcome the lesser challenge. America's future depends heavily on whether they can overcome the greater.
Colorado Goes to the Supreme Court to Defend TABOR
Filed under: All Postings, TABOR, The Founding, supreme court
Three years ago, a group of primarily government plaintiffs sued in federal district court to void Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR). TABOR allows the people, not just the legislature, to vote on most tax increases, most debt increases, and some spending hikes.
The plaintiffs argued that the 20-year old state constitutional provision violated the U.S. Constitution's Guarantee Clause by putting Colorado out of compliance with its requirement that each state have a "republican form of government."
In addition to its (very) late filing, the lawsuit faced a number of obstacles: It was doubtful whether, under U.S. Supreme Court case law, the plaintiffs had standing to sue. It was doubtful whether, under Supreme Court case law, any claim under the Guarantee Clause was justiciable. Previously, the Court had ruled that Guarantee Clause questions should be presented to Congress, not to the judiciary. In addition, for a case to be justiciable there have to be legal standards for deciding it, and the Plaintiffs' legal papers were massively unclear about what the correct standards were.
Finally, the case had big problems on the merits: The evidence is crystal clear that the term "republican" as the Constitution uses the term, allows for direct public votes on policy matters. Nearly all states permit such voting to some extent, particularly on taxes, spending and debt.
That such an open-and-shut case was not dismissed immediately is a grave commentary on the efficiency of the federal judicial system. Three years later, the courts still have not reached the merits. Both the district judge and the U.S. Court of Appeals have allowed the case to proceed even though it still is unclear what legal standard of "republicanism" the plaintiffs propose to apply. Dissenting judges on the Court of Appeals argued, correctly, that enough is enough: Taxpayers should not be forced to endure additional time-wasting on a meritless case.
The Colorado Attorney General agrees with the dissent, and has filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court. The term certiorari is Latin for "to make more certain," and it is the traditional introductory wording for a court order (writ) demanding that a case be sent to it for review.
The Supreme Court, rightly, is sparing in how often it grants certiorari. This case, however, is a classic case not just for certioriari, but for summary reversal of the kind the Supreme Court ordered in 2012 in response to a baseless Montana state decision.
You can read the Attorney General's petition for certiorari here. Most of this long document consists merely of appended documents. The argument itself is quickly read.
More Evidence From Last Term That It's Not a "Conservative Supreme Court"
Filed under: All Postings, ObamaCare, The Founding, supreme court
Note: This article was first published at cns news.
There is a common media myth that the current U.S. Supreme Court, or at least a majority of the current justices, is "conservative."
But if a "conservative" justice is one who consistently interprets the Constitution in accordance with traditional methods of judging—as the Founders intended for it to be interpreted—then the Court is anything but conservative.
On social issues the Court has been pushing society to the Left. Otherwise, the best description of its jurisprudence is "status quo." And in this instance, preserving the status quo renders the Court liberal, not conservative.
That is because the status quo the justices are preserving is a body of liberal jurisprudence created in the 20th century when the Court was usually controlled by "progressive" majorities.
The Court's tendency to protect liberal jurisprudence appears even in cases where the specific outcomes are pleasing to conservatives. In fact, the "conservative" outcomes often are relatively marginal—minor victories—while the jurisprudence that underlies the result is a major triumph for liberals.
Three cases from the Supreme Court term illustrate the point.
The first is the famous Hobby Lobby case, in which the Court ruled that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) protects an employer's right not to provide abortifacients. I have written elsewhere about a liberal victory in Hobby Lobby that received almost no publicity. But there was another, more important, liberal victory on a point of fundamental principle.
The Hobby Lobby dispute arose from federal regulations of employment and of health insurance purportedly authorized by Congress in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Unlike the "tax" justification for Obamacare's individual insurance mandate, the supposed constitutional basis for those regulations is Congress's Commerce Power, contained in the Constitution's Commerce Clause and Necessary and Proper Clause.
Everyone concedes, at least in theory, that Congress has only the authority the Constitution grants it—Congress's "enumerated powers." But properly construed, Congress's enumerated power to regulate "Commerce" does not encompass employment relations or insurance, except in some peripheral situations. The Supreme Court recognized this consistently for the Constitution's first 150 years. Indeed, during that time the Court held repeatedly, and unanimously, that most insurance is NOT "Commerce." It was not until "progressive" justices took control in in the late 1930s and 1940s that the rules changed, and it was not until relatively recently that Congress began systematically to interfere in the insurance market.
A bench consisting of traditional (conservative) justices, therefore, would have held that the Obamacare regulations were outside the federal government's enumerated powers, and thereby invalid for that reason. Such a court would not have reached the RFRA issue because there was no need to do so.
A second example from the Supreme Court term just past is the campaign finance decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. This case invalidated a congressional effort to limit the total amount any person could donate to all candidates combined. The basis for the decision was the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. Media outlets have described this case also as a "conservative" triumph.
Yet a truly conservative court would never have reached the First Amendment issue because in presuming to regulate campaigns, Congress again exceeded its enumerated powers. The Constitution does confer on Congress authority to regulate the "Manner of holding [congressional] Elections." But this constitutional grant does not extend to regulation of campaigns.
The scope of the constitutional grant is quite clear from the historical record, as I explained at length a 2010 article cited last year by Justice Thomas, the only member of the Court who consistently interprets the Constitution in the traditional ("conservative") manner. Congress's authority to regulate "the Manner of holding Elections" refers strictly to voting mechanics. For example, Congress may specify whether we vote by open or secret ballot and whether a candidate needs a majority to win or can win by a plurality. But the Constitution leaves regulation of campaigns to state laws governing defamation, corrupt practices, and so forth.
The Supreme Court did not hold that "Manner of Election" included campaigns until a "progressive" majority did so in 1941. The Court's accompanying opinion was based on little or no inquiry into the real meaning of the constitutional language.
Yet in McCutcheon the justices (and the parties) accepted that suspect holding without question, and proceeded immediately to the First Amendment issue.
The third example from the term just ended is NLRB v. Noel Canning, which unanimously invalidated some of President Obama's "recess appointments." The Constitution's Recess Appointments Clause is an enumerated power of the President that grants him the prerogative, without Senate consent, "to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate." The Court needed to decide (1) whether the "Recess" meant only the intersession recess or encompassed other breaks as well, and (2) whether for a vacancy to "happen" it had to arise during the recess or could merely continue into a recess.
The Founding-Era record is crystal clear on both questions: A "Recess" means only an intersession break and the vacancy must arise then. A traditional ("conservative") bench would have so found. And, in fact, four justices did so find—relying on an article I wrote earlier this year that documented the Founders' understanding at length.
But the majority did not follow the Recess Appointments Clause as the Founders understood it. Rather, it applied a sort of balancing test of the "living constitution" variety. President Obama lost only because he had violated even that flaccid and malleable standard.
The result was a small conservative victory, but at great cost: That cost was a complete revision and a serious weakening of an important constitutional check-and-balance—yet another example of the fundamentally liberal jurisprudence of a Court that many in the national media insist on calling "conservative."
Obama's Ebola Order: Is it Constitutional to Send Troops to Hand out "Home Health Kits" in Africa?
Filed under: All Postings, The Founding, supreme court
Does that give him authority to utilize our armed forces for a purely non-military purpose like addressing the Ebola outbreak in Africa?
The Denver Post thinks so, editorializing that Obama's decision is "fully justified." But the Post doesn't tackle the constitutional issues.
The Ebola mission, according to the Associated Press, is "to supply medical and logistical support to overwhelmed local health care systems and to boost the number of beds needed to isolate and treat victims of the epidemic." Our troops will be doing things like handing out home health kits to Africans and building health clinics.
Note that this is different from the armed forces carrying on humanitarian actions as an incident to military operations. When you are fighting an enemy abroad, it makes sense to build hospitals to retain local good will or to care for those injured a result of war.
But we are not engaged in military operations in Africa.
So what does the Constitution have to say?
The Constitution contains no clause specifically prohibiting the president from using the armed forces this way. You might think that such a limit would be inherent in the Constitution's use of the word "Army." That is, you might think the word "Army" would be limited to an exclusively military organization. But founding-era dictionaries do not impose that restriction on the term "Army." As those dictionaries define the word, an "Army" is merely a large number of armed men subject to central leadership. (This, by the way, is one reason the U.S. Air Force is constitutional, even though the Constitution doesn't refer to it. The Air Force fits within the constitutional meaning of "Army." Indeed, it was originally the Army Air Service and later the Army Air Corps.)
The operations in Africa sound noble. But the old legal saying is: Hard cases make bad law. In other words, yielding to an innocent-sounding usurpation may create a dangerous precedent. So ask yourself: Does the Constitution allow the president to use the "Army" for any non-military purpose he pleases?
Or maybe you prefer to focus on some narrower examples:
* If the president decides that Argentina does not have sufficient health facilities, may he constitutionally send in the army to open and staff clinics there? (He could take the needed funds from Department of Defense appropriations.)
* Could he make the same decision for Pennsylvania?
* Could he send the army to register voters when there is no accompanying military threat?
* If your answer to the last question is "yes," then could he focus the army's registration campaign in states that lean toward his own party? If not, how does this differ constitutionally from the previous example?
* Could he send the military to build a highway in Ohio, if he concluded the highway was necessary for the economy there? Suppose his decision was related to Ohio's vote in the next election?*
If those examples make you nervous, then your gut is telling you something. The army is not the president's personal plaything. It is not a generalized work crew the president can order to do whatever he wants done. It is a military instrument, and it is dangerous to allow the president to use it for other purposes.
My guess is that the Constitution does not contain a clause banning the president from using the army for non-military ends only because the framers never imagined that any American president would do so.
Yet it has happened, and it demonstrates a flaw in our political system. For all its strengths, our Constitution contains inadequate protection against a president determined to ignore conventional limits. We have seen this before.
For example, it occurred in World War II, when the president shot at least one American citizen within the continental U.S. without a civilian trial and without habeas corpus, and when he imprisoned tens of thousands of others. (The U.S. Supreme Court failed to stop either action.) We now recognize that these were impermissible constitutional violations, but our repentance didn't come in time to save the victims.
Once again we are witnessing the exercise of arbitrary executive power—and this time, the president does not even have the excuse of a war. But without a constitutional amendment, we are probably powerless to stop it.
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* The possibility of political abuse is not far-fetched. This administration's history of misusing government agencies for political purposes raises the question of whether this operation was triggered in part by a perceived need to rally the heavily-Democratic African-American vote in the coming election. Certainly that is how some pro-Democrat activists are using it. Compare JFK's pre-election timing of the Cuban missile crisis.
The Constitution on Latin TV (And by "Latin," we don't mean Latin American)
Filed under: All Postings, The Founding
Institute Research Director Dave Kopel has long urged me to do a broadcast production on the Constitution in the Latin language, and now it's here!
Produced by II web monkey Justin Longo, the program features an interview of me by my daughter Sarah on the American Founding and the nature of the Constitution. Sarah, 23, is a classics major at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.
I raised all three of my daughters to be bilingual: While they were growing up, my wife spoke exclusively to them in English while I spoke to them exclusively in Latin.
For linguistic wimps, the telecast includes subtitles in English. You can see the program here.
For linguistic jocks: Not even the Romans navigated all of Latin's grammatical mistakes perfectly. See if you can identify the specific grammatical errors I made in the course of this interview. (Hint: On reviewing the video, I counted four.)
Finally: The pronunciation Sarah and I use is that of "Late Latin." This is pretty much the same as classical Latin, except that the letter "V" is pronounced as in Italian or English.
The Founders as Mythology
Filed under: All Postings, The Founding
Recently when commenting on how Americans view the Founding, an associate of mine observed that in many people's minds the Founders had become mythological rather than historical figures. That is, many people routinely ascribe ideas and actions—both good and bad, wise and stupid—to them that have little to do with historical reality or even human probability.
A common example: Some commentators who profess to revere the Founders and may even claim they were divinely inspired, nevertheless also insist that they grossly breached their faith in proposing a new Constitution rather than amendments to the Articles of Confederation.
My associate's observation induced me to recall how ancient Greek and Roman writers portrayed their gods. They frequently portrayed the gods as just, majestic, imperturbable, gracious, and wise. But they also told stories that depicted the gods as wicked, petty, jealous, mean, and stupid. To cite one example: Jupiter (Zeus) was pater deumque hominumque—the father of gods and men, the defender of justice, the guardian of the world. Yet he was also a multiple rapist who turned himself into a bull so as to lure a young girl (Europa) in service of his lascivious plans.
Obviously, such portrayals have nothing to do with historical reality. But they are different only in degree from some portrayals of the Founders.
On the one hand, we need to remember that the Founders—framers, ratifiers, and opinion-molders—were not a passel of hicks who, in the dismissive words of Professor Louis Michael Seidman, "thought it was fine to own slaves." On the other hand, we need to remember that they were not gods either. They were very wise, educated, and experienced men—and in some cases, such as that of Mercy Otis Warren, women. Nearly all were honorable and believed that slavery was a violation of natural law. Their knowledge of human nature and politics enabled them to erect our system of checks and balances. Their knowledge of history enabled them, to a very great extent, to transcend their own time and circumstances. Their drafting skill enabled them to produce a beautiful document, whose phrases have real meaning—even if, as in the case of the Necessary and Proper Clause, those meanings are often technical in nature.
Yet because they were men, they were fallible, and because they lived in a particular time and set of circumstances, they had to make compromises. One of those, and the one most often used to bash them, was their accommodation with slavery: They were faced with the difficult choice of indulging their belief that slavery was wrong or creating a new form of government that all states might ratify. They chose the latter. It was a nasty choice, but it also was one that helped ensure that America did not become, like Europe, a collection of small countries incessantly warring against each other.
In treating the Founders therefore, we should take them as they were. No hagiography and no demonology, either.
No, the Necessary and Proper Clause Does NOT Empower Congress to Control an Amendments Convention
Filed under: All Postings, Article V, The Founding
A few days ago I heard a presentation by a spokesman for a group that claims to defend the Constitution and revere the Founders. Yet the spokesman trashed the Constitution's framers for allegedly exceeding their authority and claimed they added a provision that largely rendered another provision useless. In other words, the spokesman charged the framers with being both (1) dishonorable and (2) incompetent.
The framers inserted the "Convention for proposing Amendments" in the Constitution to provide the states with a way of obtaining constitutional amendments without federal interference. Tench Coxe, a leading advocate for the Constitution during the ratification debates, pointed out that the convention device allows the states to obtain whatever amendments they choose "although the President, Senate and Federal House of Representatives, should be unanimously opposed to each and all of them." (Italics in original.)
The spokesman, however, asserted that the Constitution allowed Congress, through the Necessary and Proper Clause, to dictate, either in the convention call or by previous legislation, how an amendments convention is structured and how commissioners (delegates) are selected and apportioned.
The claim that Congress can use the Necessary and Proper Clause to structure the convention was first advanced in the 1960s, and has been repeated numerous times since then. A Congressional Research Service report published earlier this year noted that some in Congress have taken the same line, although the report did not actually endorse it.
But pause to consider: Why would the framers place in the Constitution a method by which Congress could largely control a convention created to bypass Congress? Were that framers that stupid?
Of course not. Most of them were highly experienced and extremely deft legal drafters.
Behind the belief that the Necessary and Proper Clause empowers Congress to structure the convention are three distinct assumptions—all erroneous: They are (1) that the scope of Congress's authority under the Necessary and Proper Clause is broader than it is, (2) that the Clause covers the amendment process, and (3) that ordinary legislation may govern the amendment process.
The Necessary and Proper Clause is the last item in the Article I, Section 8 list of congressional powers. It reads:
The Congress shall have Power . . . To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
It happens that the most extensive treatment of the Necessary and Proper Clause is an academic book I co-authored with Professors Gary Lawson, Guy Seidman, and Geoff Miller: The Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause (Cambridge University Press, 2010) (cited by Justice Thomas in a Supreme Court case earlier this year and apparently relied on by Chief Justice Roberts in 2012). This book reveals the Necessary and Proper Clause to be a masterpiece of legal draftsmanship.
The Clause was based on usage common in 18th-century legal documents. It is not a grant of authority, but a rule of interpretation. It tells us to construe certain enumerated powers as the ratifiers understood them rather than in an overly-narrow way. In legal terms, the Necessary and Proper Clause informs us that those enumerated powers include "incidental" authority.
Even if the Clause did apply to the amendment process, the authority "incidental" to Congress's call would be quite narrow. An entity that calls an interstate convention always has been limited to specifying the time, place, and subject matter. It is the state legislatures who control selection of their own commissioners, thank you very much.
But in fact the Necessary and Proper Clause does not extend to the amendment process. To explain:
The Constitution includes numerous grants of power. These grants are made to Congress, to the President, to the courts, and to state legislatures and various conventions. The Clause is crafted to apply to most of those grants, but it also excludes a number of them. Specifically, it covers only the powers listed in Article I, Section 8, and those vested in the "Government of the United States" and in "Departments" and "Officers" of that government.
In other words, the Clause omits constitutional grants made to entities that are not part of the "Government of the United States." For example, the Clause does not apply to state legislatures regulating congressional election law, prescribing selection of presidential electors, or (before the 17th amendment) choosing U.S. Senators. Nor does it apply to the conventions and legislatures operating in the amendment process.
But is Congress a "Department" of government as the Necessary and Proper Clause uses that word? When Congress acts in its normal legislative capacity, you can argue this either way. But when Congress acts under the amendment process, the answer is clearly "no."
This is because when Congress and state legislatures act in the amendment process, they do so not as branches of government, but as ad hoc assemblies. We know this (1) from the Founding Era record, (2) from subsequent history and, perhaps most importantly, (3) from decisions of the United States Supreme Court. See, for example, United States v. Sprague (1931).
Well, if Congress cannot insert language in the "call" structuring the convention, can it pass laws for the same purpose? Again, the answer is "no." A long list of 20th century cases from courts at all levels holds that ordinary legislation does not bind the amendment process. See, for example, Leser v. Garnett (1922).
Rob Discusses How He Researches the Constitution
Filed under: All Postings, The Founding, supreme court