Random Thought of the Day - All Men Are Created Equal

The Declaration precedes the Constitution. “All men are created equal” is the necessary preface to “We the People.”

Equal rights and the consent of the governed are the principles that make self-government intelligible in the first place. Without them there are no real limits to what majorities can enact, including doing away with democratic rule.  Once “all men are created equal” is dispensed with, once it is no longer held to apply to a certain group of people, what might limit the arbitrary rule of a few, or one, over other groups without their consent?  The right to love and and marry, regardless of preference is a right, grounded in our basic equality. And no majority should be able to take that away.

In reading some opinions about how our leadership has recently been standing by their party-lines, during this election month, instead of defending the core value in the Declaration of Independence, points to a larger (less apparent) issue with society.

The Change - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Something really caught me today while reading your blog — this clip from the Iranian protests.
All of our media coverage today seems to be focused on spinning election results from last night, and what they mean for our “big two” political parties.  Doesn’t anyone else see the deeper meaning of what last year meant?  You don’t need to look any further than how Iran was united against the U.S. during the Bush administration, to now a splinter revolution taking place that is drawing a line in the sand against its government.  I don’t mean to imply that Obama waved some magic wand here; all of the credit goes to Iranians willing to stand up to the thugs patrolling their streets.

But would it be happening this way if the Middle East still viewed the United States the way it did during the Bush years?

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Did anyone every realize that the CAPTCHA security control for keeping track of logins on sites such as eBay & TicketMaster actually stands for Completely Automated Test to tell computers and humans apart???

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Prince William’s girlfriend is named Samantha.

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