UMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  you do know that buying a $1 latex condom for each screw is a fairly new innovation?  right?  I mean they have had sex in Africa since, um, how old is Lucy again?

I want solitary confinement

It's a serious bill and may pass. 

I believe the ban on bills of attainder in Article I, and the 5th Amendment guarantee of due process prohibit the Congress from enacting a law that says "Joe Blow from Cocomo is a terrorist, an Al-Qaeda supporter and he shall be confined until such time as the Congress sees fit to release him."

That being true, Congress cannot delegate the power to make such findings to the President through a Defense Authorization Act.

Congress can prescribe lengthy imprisonment for the crime of being an Al Qaeda supporter; but the Constitution guarantees a judicial process before any person can be subjected to that punishment.

All of the practical problems arising from prosecuting Al Qaeda in our courts arise from invented procedural rules imposed by the courts, and those procedural rules should be hit head on by the government to make upholding the Constitution practicable.

yeah we preferred him to the guy accused of treason, who raised money by online credit card donations with absolutely no controls to prevent foriegn donations, who let thugs who "patrolled" a polling place with clubs off with probation and a promise to obey the law until 2012

cause 3 years of that wears on you

I'm sure you were taught that Justinian, but it's a lie belied by the experience of the United States itself.  Denied organized police, our small cities policed themselves.  Denied the military, our communities armed themselves.  The development of college-trained, permanent, paid police and firefighters and schoolteachers is still so recent that it is living memory.  There are people still alive who were born in states without public schools but learned to read.  You know how 24HrFitness is a private company that survives by selling subscriptions?  That's how most Americans bought education.

You mentioned contracts law as one of the "basic" needs served by government.  For the first 170 years of our Republic, every state had its own contract law.  In cases of interstate commerce, federal judges developed rules to determine which state law would apply in various situations-- the buyers, the sellers, the shippers, the insurers.  It was not until the 1950s that lawyers, law professors, retired judges and manufacturers got enough  political juice to sell the Uniform Commercial Code to various state governments, and even then, it's been adopted piecemeal.  The effort to create the basic laws of contract for the protection of commerce, came from private citizens.

Same thing with Underwriter Laboratories, that guarantees appliances are safe from electrical fire.  Same with the NAASD, that develops quality standards for metallurgy.  Same for rocketry.  Saying that it is helpful or useful for expert private sector regulation to be adopted by government and expanded nationally is one thing; saying that absent Uncle Sucker we would be apemen is ridiculous.  The American economy produced 33% of agricultural product and 70% of the steel in the world by 1890, and government services of the time would best be described as registration rather than regulation. 

We are living the results of central planning -- we declare our pride in social justice and fairness, and we'd rather wallow with 1/3 of adult Americans out of the workplace than allow some people to make a bundle embarrassing our politicians by leading us out of the wilderness.  Washington will not resolve the recession.  Washington is too concerned with seeing all their important friends make it.  They are crippling alternatives.  They are stifling economic innovation because it will not follow the appropriate political channels.

pretty sure the moon has been asking for it

keeps peeping in parrot's window while he sleeps

that's basically belonging to the Standing-At-The-Back-Dressed-Stupidly-And-Looking-Stupid Party

but without the social conscience

Keynesian economics won't work in this country because the government can't measure the economy accurately, and instead of solving that problem it just demands more spending.

"Saddam Hussein disagrees.

As do the Bolsheviks."

which side had the fervor while the other side wanted to enjoy the good life

"It's obvious the religious right can not co-exist with mainstream society. Rather than a civil war, I would prefer territory with semi-autonomy be partitioned off for them to live exactly as they please. The only service they would receive from the state is military protection, and they would be expected to obey some basic commerce laws, pay taxes for the military and court system, and forfeit their right to political participation on the federal level. Beyond that, they can institute whatever religious laws and education they want within their jurisdiction.
The alternative, of course, is war."

How are you going to create that situation?