“I am unalterably opposed to discrimination of any sort”, do you agree or disagree?

I support Rand Paul and the Tea Party. Let's get our government back.

Rand Paul is a nut case. He wants business owners to be able to exclude black people from their businesses,
yet he wants to force businesses to let guns in.

I would rather take our government forward.

I feel pretty comfortable saying that moving away from segregation is the same as moving forward.

If you want to say that segregation is a conservative position, I am not going to stop you.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and subsequent legislation declared a strong legislative policy against discrimination in public schools and colleges.

To uphold the Government's contention that 922(q) is justified because firearms possession in a local school zone does indeed substantially affect interstate commerce would require this Court to pile inference upon inference in a manner that would bid fair to convert congressional Commerce Clause authority to a general police power of the sort held only by the States.

Simply put, the justification Congress had to pass Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was that mandating such regulations on restaurants increased the likelihood that blacks would engage in interstate travel. With this reasoning, there is nothing to prevent Congress from passing other such laws, for example mandating that all restaurants offer a full vegan menu in order to "promote the interstate travel" of vegans. Congress could pass laws demanding that all restaurants offer a full Halal meal in order to promote the interstate travel of Muslims. Congress could pass laws demanding that all restaurants offer a full range of diet drinks and low calorie meals in order to facilitate interstate travel by overweight people.

The prior court case on which Katzenbach v McClung was based has been called into question in recent years. In Wickard v. Filburn, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could prevent a farmer from growing wheat on his own land to feed his chickens because it affected the "interstate market" in chicken feed. This was the culmination of a series of cases which ruled that the federal government could basically do anything it wanted, with justification under the Commerce Clause, while ignoring all other parts of the Constitution.

Prior to the 1930s, the Supreme Court had regarded the Commerce Clause to read what its authors intended: that only Congress should have the power to set regulations on trade between the various states, a clause inserted into the Constitution to prevent trade wars from erupting between states. For example, North Carolina cannot place import tariffs on goods manufactured in Virginia. California may not forbid its citizens from traveling to or conducting business with Arizona.

Rand Paul can cite numerous other legal precedents in support of his position on the Civil Rights Act.

“I am unalterably opposed to discrimination of any sort”, do you agree or disagree?

Paul began the race as a long shot against Grayson, the GOP establishment candidate and perceived frontrunner in the race to replace retiring Sen. Jim Bunning, a 78-year-old former major league pitcher who opted not to seek a third term under pressure from Republican leaders who considered him politically vulnerable. Bunning ended up bucking them by endorsing Paul.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin also supported Paul, while Grayson received endorsements from establishment leaders Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and former Vice President Dick Cheney.