It is a core belief of the Democrat faithful that they are better-educated than we are, which allows them to understand the Truth that is Obama. Nothing could be further from the real truth. I’ll stack up my degrees against any Democrat, and so can most of you judging from the quality of writing seen here, but that’s not the point. The simple fact is that Democrat politicians do not appeal to the intellect. Instead, they rely on name-calling and manipulation to attract the simple-minded.

Would you like to be chic? Join the Democrats and mingle with the stars of pop culture. Would you like to be intelligent and well-educated? Join the Democrats and prove that you are a genius with a five-foot-tall stack of sheepskins. You don’t want to be a pig, do you? Then don’t wear lipstick, attend church services, learn to shoot, or take on the establishment.

H.L. Menken said that no one ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Perhaps. But plenty of people have lost elections by doing so. Let’s see how smart they are in November.

**America was never intended to be a nation where everyone in every state shared the same values. The original colonies had their own distinct cultures, religions, and traditions, and they wanted to make certain that those were preserved before they agreed to enter the national union. That’s what federalism is; that’s why the 10th amendment is in the constitution. But federalism and local government has been destroyed by the appointed judges of the federal judiciary.

The Warren Court was absolutely right in its cases dealing with racial discrimination, such as Brown v. Board of Education. These were firmly grounded in the 13th amendment’s prohibition on slavery. This applied to all the states because it was part of the federal constitution. But the Supreme Court became intoxicated with the power of its constitutional holdings and blatantly ignored the constitution by venturing into public policy questions strictly reserved to the states by the 10th amendment.

Roe v. Wade was such a case. Although it had no express power to do so, and although all powers not specifically vested in the federal government were expressly reserved to the states by the 10th amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe held that state laws prohibiting abortion were unconstitutional, basing this holding on a “penumbra” (i.e., unspoken and invisible) right of sexual privacy that derived from an equally specious case where it held that Connecticut could not prohibit the sale of condoms. These decisions appear complex and very, very learned, but their complexity is nothing but a smokescreen to conceal their basic illegality. The supreme court simply did not have the authority to apply the constitution in such an absurdly broad way; the judges knew it, so they couched their opinions in complicated language and Byzantine analysis expressly designed to prevent the average person from realizing that taffy was being distributed.

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