1. Is there a reason why the Census Bureau needs to be in the White House rather than the Commerce Department? Does this stink to anybody else? Do we really want Rahm Emmanuel involved with counting heads? Let’s not politicize the Census Bureau.
2. Debunking Darwinism – the first post in a 12-part series at The Point.
3. Are prenups ok for Christians?
4. April 26th is International Internet Evangelism Day (HT: Catalyst Catablog)
5. Reaching people who want to make a difference.
6. An apologetic for the multi-site church… I’d love to hear your thoughts on newer development in church planting.
7. This made me laugh out loud.
8. Fight back against the tolerance fascists.
9. Three ways the office of the presidency has been dummied down. Some bonus material.
10. My friend Steve explains why he is an emerging urban conservative.
11. There is an increasing number of states that are declaring state sovereignty.
Although Fox News and CNN are not telling you about it, a growing number of states are declaring sovereignty. Washington, New Hampshire, Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, California, and Georgia have all introduced bills and resolutions declaring sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment. Colorado, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Alaska, Kansas, Alabama, Nevada, Maine, and Illinois are considering such measures.
12. Appropriate ways to drop your kids off at Sunday school.
13. The man who is truly responsible for global warming due to all his hot air.
HT: Angela Stevens
14. Mother of U.S.S. Cole victim – “I made a mistake voting for Obama.”
15. Kevin DeYoung has a new book coming out - Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will or How to Make a Decision Without Dreams, Visions, Fleeces, Open Doors, Random Bible Verses, Casting Lots, Liver Shivers, Writing in the Sky, etc. I love the title! (HT: Stephen Murray)
16. A man walks near a woman, University police in a panic. Can we say ridiculous? (HT: Cassy Fiano)
17. She warned us, but we didn’t listen. Sarah Palin’s convention speech almost seems prophetic in light of what we are seeing in Obama’s firs few weeks in office. (HT: Conservatives for Palin)
18. Abortion after rape – What do women really feel? And choose?
19. A 12-year-old speaks out on the issue of abortion.
HT: Stand to Reason
20. Uncovering the stimulus – Chicago style. By the way, Porkulus passed the cloture vote in the Senate 61-36. Here are the three GOP turncoats and their phone numbers. Final vote on the Generational Theft Act of 2009 expected tomorrow with likely more pork added during the House/Senate conference.
FWIW, #1 is actually illegal; someone needs to challenge that in court, because there's no way it will hold up.
I'm sure it will be. I can't see the GOP sitting there and accepting that. Do you have a reference to the federal law that speaks on this?
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2009/02/...
The key is twofold: first, the census is established by Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution–it's an activity assigned to the legislative branch, not the executive; and two, while Congress has chosen to delegate that responsibility to a Director of the Census whom they placed within the Commerce Department, that official acts at the behest of Congress, not of the executive branch. As such, the Secretary of Commerce doesn't even report the findings of the census to the President, but rather is responsible to “publish” them.
What Barack Obama is trying to do here is in clear violation of federal law–and you'd have a pretty strong case that it's an unconstitutional power grab, to boot.
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