Is the Second Amendment to the USA Constitution moral as it is used today?

Sometimes it is difficult to get all parties on the same page for peace proposals taken seriously.

February 2016,  Estonian Journal of Military Studies (click here)

Rationalist theories (click here) have met with difficulties when used to establish credible security governance in multicultural environments for actors possessing a different sense of logic. The case of Ukraine serves as a perfect example of a Hobbesian challenge to a Kantian international system. The present research topic is influenced by the theoretical works of Alexander Wendt and Richard Lebow, and seeks to examine the cultural patterns that influence international systems and their security governance practises. In addition, it is also an attempt to produce contrasting conceptions for interpreting norms, perceptions, and motives. Motives impelled by a Kantian system are divergent from the motives of Hobbesian and Lockean systems. In Ukraine, the Hobbesian political culture, presented by Russia, challenges the Kantian principles of international organisations (UN, EU, OSCE, NATO), which are responsible for the security governance in the postmodern international system. Figuratively, ‘the world of Merkel’, which is influenced by Western liberal traditions, is opposition to ‘the world of Putin’, which corresponds to a Hobbesian and Lockean interpretation of international security. A determined Hobbesian actor can pose serious challenges, or even enact permanent changes, to a Kantian international system. With their intervention in the Ukrainan crisis Russian political elites successfully carried out neoconservative postulates of foreign policy, while international institutions (e.g. the UN, the OSCE) have met with serious difficulties in their attempts to introduce necessary measures of effective security governance.

First published Tue Feb 12, 2002; substantive revision Mon Sep 12, 2022

The 17th Century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (click here) is now widely regarded as one of a handful of truly great political philosophers, whose masterwork Leviathan rivals in significance the political writings of Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Rawls. Hobbes is famous for his early and elaborate development of what has come to be known as “social contract theory”, the method of justifying political principles or arrangements by appeal to the agreement that would be made among suitably situated rational, free, and equal persons. He is infamous for having used the social contract method to arrive at the astonishing conclusion that we ought to submit to the authority of an absolute—undivided and unlimited—sovereign power....

First published Mon Feb 23, 2004; substantive revision Fri Jan 21, 2022 (click here)

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) argued that the supreme principle of morality is a principle of practical rationality that he dubbed the “Categorical Imperative” (CI). Kant characterized the CI as an objective, rationally necessary and unconditional principle that we must follow despite any natural desires we may have to the contrary. All specific moral requirements, according to Kant, are justified by this principle, which means that all immoral actions are irrational because they violate the CI. Other philosophers, such as Hobbes, Locke and Aquinas, had also argued that moral requirements are based on standards of rationality. However, these standards were either instrumental principles of rationality for satisfying one’s desires, as in Hobbes, or external rational principles that are discoverable by reason, as in Locke and Aquinas. Kant agreed with many of his predecessors that an analysis of practical reason reveals the requirement that rational agents must conform to instrumental principles....

I don't know who Putin is channeling to continue to commit genocide against innocent and peaceful people, but, it is my guess communists have less desire to talk than fight.

The peace prospects with Russia by any other country do not exist. Propaganda is immoral and Putin shines it on all the time.

International Law must be upheld as the supreme measure of morality. Enforcing it may be difficult, but, cannot be compromised. Allowing any act of genocide is not to be tolerated.

Democracy in the United States of America will never be compromised by anything less than moral.

"Warsaw East European Review," Vol. 8, 2018 (click here)

Who is this guy?

He is iconic to the Federalist Society (click here). His profile is used for their purposes. I just was wondering who he is that he carries such emblematic clout.

Each month, (click here) a panel of experts convenes to discuss the Court’s upcoming docket sitting by sitting. The cases that will be covered are included below.

Do they utilize the Shadow Docket much? What is their interest in it? I mean they own so many Justices. And at least one wife.

Normally, there is a Mission Statement for an organization this size with as much private money to achieve their goals. But, I can't find one. There is only a list of stuff that includes in it the words "Mission Statement" (click here).

The Federalist Society has it's own "Case Archive." (click here)

Our Purpose (click here)

• Law schools and the legal profession are currently strongly dominated by a form of orthodox liberal ideology which advocates a centralized and uniform society.  While some members of the academic community have dissented from these views, by and large they are taught simultaneously with (and indeed as if they were) the law.

The Future of NEPA Reform (click here)

As a condition of his vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, Sen. Joe Manchin demanded space for his own permitting-reform package in the latest spending bill. While his proposed legislation was ultimately pulled over objections to aspects tangential to permitting, interest in permitting reform remains strong. The target of many reformers’ ire is the current interpretation of the National Environmental Policy Act: a 1970 statute (click here) designed to ensure that the government gives adequate consideration to environmental impacts before embarking on major actions. While this has had significant benefits for environmental quality, the review process is often long, costly, and subject to aggressive litigation that often stretches for years. Is it time to rewrite portions of NEPA? And, if so, what should those reforms look like?

The attack every aspect of the law regarding the natural world. And we are living on Earth that is on meltdown. The opening for complete reform of Greenhouse Gas POLLUTION into our atmospheres is less than nine years. What is the organization and political action committee even in existence for?

Joe Manchin is affiliated with The Federalist Society?

The LGBT community is safe in Oregon, are they in every other state? What will the Republican Supreme Court do next to thank the Federalist Society.

November 11, 2022
By Mariana Alfaro

Tina Kotek (click here) on her last day in office as the Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, Jan. 20, 2022. Kotek, D-Portland, served as speaker from 2013-2022 and resigned to focus on her campaign for governor.

Democrat Tina Kotek (click here) is projected to win the tight race for Oregon governor.

The former speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives defeated Republican Christine Drazan, a former state lawmaker, and Betsy Johnson, a former Democratic state lawmaker who left the party and ran as an unaffiliated candidate....

...With the victory, Kotek is now one of two women — along with Maura Healey in Massachusetts (D) — who will become the country’s first openly lesbian governors.

During her nearly decade-long tenure in the state legislature, Kotek played a key role in expanding abortion access, increasing Oregon’s minimum wage, investing $50 million in clean energy and passing legislation that guarantees sick leave for all Oregon workers....

...“I ask my fellow Oregonians, no matter who you voted for, or even whether you voted at all, to believe in our state and our future,” she said. “Please, be engaged so we can all help solve problems togeth

Kotek said that, once she takes office, she will focus “on three things first”: Declaring a state of emergency over the state’s homeless crisis, expanding access to mental health and addiction treatment services and working to “bridge the divisions in our state.”...

I especially liked her approach to housing. It is vital for a healthy economy and successful schools. 

"Housing supply in Oregon has not kept pace with the population growth, and the state continues to fall behind every year. What is your plan to increase housing stock?

The housing supply crisis has been decades in the making and is being felt in every corner of our state. As House Speaker, I led the way to begin the arduous work of addressing our severe housing shortage, including investing over a billion dollars to build more affordable housing and maintain the current supply of affordable housing, removing barriers to housing development, allowing for more housing options, and more. But there is much more work to do. My priority on day one will be to start implementing my plan to tackle Oregon’s housing crisis.

We simply have to get more serious about building a lot more housing. The goal will be to build enough housing to meet the need for people currently experiencing homelessness, address the current shortage of housing, and keep pace with future housing demand over the next decade. I’ll start by issuing an executive order on Day One to create a long-term plan to build enough homes in urban, suburban, and rural communities to meet this goal."...

The rural communities in Oregon (click here) need to be addressed as well as the cities. The rural areas a primarily Republican, but, with an outreach by the Governor getting to know the farming community and smaller towns, their problems can be solved as well.

There is a difference in the election map from 2020 to 2022. The Republican influence in the rural counties has come under question. The strongly Republican counties are now only leaning Republican. The Democrats have primarily held their ground in Oregon. Governors like the Governor-Elect can continue to bring traditionally Republican counties into a clearer understanding of the Democratic Party by solving problems and making it real.

The LGBT community is important to Governor-Elect Tina Kotek. I believe when members of that community are elected to office it makes Clarence Thomas' ridicule of the USA Constitution where all citizens have rights all the more clear what a completely horrible Associate Justice he is. It only proves how religiously bigoted many of the Robert's Courts decisions are when it comes to the civil rights of American.