Rey's A Point

Category: politics

  • How I’m Voting in 2012 or Why You Shouldn’t Vote Third Party This Year

    I wanted to quickly list my reasons for voting for Romney and not voting for Obama, why I’m not voting for a third party (and why you shouldn’t either) and my prediction of who will win.

  • Presidential Image: Designed For Voters

    It’s that time of the season when the cherry blossoms are in bloom; the cardinals are frolicking with the robins; when the morning dew mingles with the morning showers; and where presidential hopefuls start putting their foot forward. Ah, can you smell feel it? That’s right, we’re past the mid-term mark and political muscles are…

  • I Have A Dream

  • The Constitution: Three Fifths

    Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all…

  • Goodbye 2010: Decade in Review and Junk

    In our lifetime we’ll only get a few moments to wax poetic and review things from our narcissist pinnacle, and with MCF now being gone from the blogging world, I am left picking up the slacker’s slack. In this post, I want to flashback over the last ten years and declare, as only a person…

  • The Constitution: Representative Requirements

    We noted that Congress is divided into two houses which are to balance each other before any mention of other governmental powers: the Senate and the House of the Representatives. These two form one portion of the powers granted to the government. In this section, it’s great seeing how they’re elected. Section 2 – The…

  • The Constitution: All Legislative Powers

    Article I: The Legislative Branch Section 1 – The Legislature: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

  • America’s “Dear John”: JULY 4, 1776

    When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the…

  • The Constitution: Let There Be…A Nation

    We the People of the United States…do ordain I noted that the preamble really wasn’t the setting down of laws, rights or anything but I purposefully didn’t mention the monumental importance of the language that was used. The States of the Americas were already labeled “united” in the Articles of Confederations—but nowhere near the way…

  • The Constitution: Preamble

    This series might be long. It’s going to be an examination of the Constitution of the United States and reflecting areas of concern. Most people find that their concern is localized to the amendments. I’ll sometimes deal with Amendments while dealing with the text. I’ll also ignore the spelling on some of the words of…