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On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:59:53 -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:


That seems to me to be a major difference between the neocons and
traditional conservatives. The neocons seem to want all government
supported organizations to espouse ONLY the neocon view of the world.
Of course, the PC branch of liberalism is just as bad.


Whereas the Constitutional view is one in which the Federal government
is so limited in scope that none of this would even be a discussion.


Tim, you lost that argument in 1861. Most legal opinion of the day held
that a state that had freely joined the union could freely leave it. Old
Abe even argued that once in a court case, IIRC. We still went to war to
prevent it.

So yes, the federal government has expanded far beyond its original scope.
Often at the behest of the general public. You're trying to close
Pandora's box.