http://conservativeposts.com Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:25:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://conservativeposts.com/2009/05/another-second-amendment-victory/ http://conservativeposts.com/2009/05/another-second-amendment-victory/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 01:47:34 +0000 Scott http://conservativeposts.com/?p=380 The Texas state Senate approved a bill to allow concealed carry license holders to carry firearms on public college campus classrooms and dorms. Opponents to this bill say that violence will increase over otherwise petty issues, such as disputes over grades, love affairs, and other rivalries.  They also say that it will lead to a [...]

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]]> http://conservativeposts.com/2009/05/supreme-court-takeover/feed/ 0 http://conservativeposts.com/2009/04/constitutional-ignorance/ http://conservativeposts.com/2009/04/constitutional-ignorance/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:19:44 +0000 Scott http://conservativeposts.com/?p=315 There’s a lot to the US Constitution.  The men who wrote it were very smart in the way they worded it.  They had the foresight to include checks and balances, through the separation of powers among the various branches of government and defined what each branch can, and more importantly, can’t do. They also defined [...]

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