I am a constitutional conservative. So what does that mean? I've earned a couple of law degrees, but defining "constitutional conservatism" shouldn't require a legal scholar.

I believe our founders knew what they were doing when they designed a limited government with specific, enumerated powers. I'm also convinced that many of our problems result from the federal government's insatiable - and unconstitutional - grab for power and money.

On issues ranging from light bulbs to bailouts to the Dodd-Frank banking legislation, Washington has been on a destructive spree of bureaucratic empire-building. It's time for that to stop.

Moreover, I believe in the unjustly neglected Tenth Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

As we discussed in The Fragility of Islamofascism a couple of weeks ago, in order to destabilize the frenzy of Islamofascism it is necessary to instill doubt into fragile Islamofascist minds. 

One way to do so is in regards to the Koran's Satanic Verses, discussed last week in The Skeleton in Islam's Closet.  Now were going to discuss another way - the embarrassment of Allah's advocacy of slavery.

Slavery is no embarrassment to Allah, nor had it been to Moslems who practiced it for 13 centuries.  Now it is and we need to take advantage of the opportunity.  Instilling doubt can be done with a simple request:

Since Allah sanctions slavery in the Koran, either slavery is right or Allah is wrong.  Choose.

[This is the full text of Tim Pawlenty's address today, 6/28, to the Council on Foreign Relation on American policy towards the Middle East. ]

I want to speak plainly this morning about the opportunities and the dangers we face today in the Middle East.  The revolutions now roiling that region offer the promise of a more democratic, more open, and a more prosperous Arab world.  From Morocco to the Arabian Gulf, the escape from the dead hand of oppression is now a real possibility.   

Now is not the time to retreat from freedom's rise....

[For example] it is not wrong for Republicans to question the conduct of President Obama's military leadership in Libya. There is much to question.  And it is not wrong for Republicans to debate the timing of our military drawdown in Afghanistan- though my belief is that General Petraeus' voice ought to carry the most weight on that question.   

What is wrong, is for the Republican Party to shrink from the challenges of American leadership in the world.  History repeatedly warns us that in the long run, weakness in foreign policy costs us and our children much more than we'll save in a budget line item.

America already has one political party devoted to decline, retrenchment, and withdrawal.  It does not need a second one.

That the Washington Post is traitorously on the side of the Jihadi terrorists and against America was further demonstrated on November 2^nd when the paper ran the front page headline story, CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons.

To disclose supremely classified information that the CIA operates a number of prisons for Jihadis in Eastern Europe is an unbelievable compromise of national security. The WaPo reporter who wrote the story, Dana Priest, should go to jail for treason, along with the WaPo editors who approved it.

The CIA has requested a formal Justice Department inquiry into the source of the classified information to the press. The House Intelligence Committee has announced it will hold hearings to investigate the leak. This is infinitely more serious than the Plamegate farce.

Note, however, that the Senate will not, as of yet, hold hearings. That’s because the leak to the WaPo has been traced to.....