Just an old guy who lives in Minnesota and who likes to talk to his computer when he has something to say to the world at large.

Since I've also made a lifetime habit of finding pleasure through the reuse of trash wood discarded by others to build a number of things that are intended to function, rather than to look like samples from a furniture display room, I started and continue to maintain a web site to exchange my knowledge of how-to with others and to thus also provide a place for them to park photos of their offerings as a way to encourage others to join us.

Interested? Take a look.

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Politics, News & Issues > Constitutional & Contract Law How presidential signing statements undermine the Constitution

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Within recent years we have become better acquainted with the subject of presidential signing statements regarding the effectiveness of laws passed by Congress and signed into action by the president. The authority to issue such statements remains a prerogative of the president. Some statements are simply comments regarding the law without any attempt to compromise its intent. At other times, the signing statements have openly claimed the law to be unconstitutional and therefore will not be acted upon by the administration. Whether or not such statements can trump the intent and the lega...

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