Your hot button issue

[opebo]

1) legalization of Prostitution
2) Ditto Drugs
3) Abortion
4) Gay marriage

[opebo]

You are talking about the invalidation of laws that have been passed by legislatures, as opposed to ordering legislatures to pass laws.  There is a difference.

I am not opposed to judicial review.  I think it is essential for the protection of minority opinions within the confines of the basic rights provided under the constitution.  But now we are reaching the point that minority opinions are being allowed to tyrannize the majority.  So many things have happened in the last 50 years that the majority didn't want, and while some were required by the constitution, such as legal equality among the races, many others were not.

The pendulum has swung too far in favor of judicial activism and must swing back or we will have a constitutional crisis.

The 'activism' has been to protect the individual from the tyranny of the majority.  Is it tyrranny of the majority to not allow them to tyrannize the minority?  I think not - i think it is the best aspect of America, and has occurred all too infrequently in our history.

[opebo]

1. national right ot work law
2. abolition of the death oenalty
3. free trade
4. equal rights for all.  it is 2005 and people are still discriminated against because of who they are or what they do in private. 

These are all fine liberal ideas (classical liberal).  I agree with them all in principle.  Number one however should probably be somewhat unpopular amoung those who have to work for a living.

[opebo]

Failure to protect the life for all citizens (who have not been convicted in a court of law) from the time of conception to natrual death.

These dependent cells aren't citizens.  Heck Mexicans aren't citizens and they're actual human beings.

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No such thing.  We secularists are trying to defend our right not to have your disgusting practices and primitive rites shoved down our throats in the public forum and on the public dime.

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Do you mean like the latest attempt at censorship by the GOP?
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050301/ap_on_go_co/congress_indecency_1

[opebo]

I totally agree, it's as if everyone wants to jump on the victim bandwagon.  We've become a society of casturated cauterwhaling cry-babies.

wahhhhh!  my great-great-great-grandfather was a slave!! pity me, pay me!

If we just stopped all liberal/democratic handout policies and took away the onetary incentive of victimhood, this would all go away.

Nah, it wouldn't go away, you just wouldn't have to see it.  The descendants of slaves would be in their ghettos, and the women would be in the kitchen, and all would be right with the world. 

Of course in reality there are no 'handout policies', only people arguing that there should be.  So perhaps they're being incentivised less by the possibility of reward, and more because their current situation is so bad.

[opebo]

What's wrong with working in the kitchen?  My father-in-law is doctor and he works in the kitchen every night reparing dinner for his family.

The point is that was their only option.  It was a prison.

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Poverty makes ghettos, and poverty makes crime. 

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Wow, talk about rose coloured glasses.  Most of the jobs that are eternally advertised in newspapers are of the subsistence level working poor variety - under $10/hr and no benefits.  The very few that are at a 'middle class' level require years of very expensive training which poor people cannot afford, and besides they're ineligable even if they could afford university due to economically segregated public schools.  There are opportunities in America - for the investment of capital, not for the working class.