Economics · Featured · Government
In whatever direction we turn, we find the heavy hand of government intruding into virtually every aspect of American society. Indeed, it has reached the point that it would a lot easier to list those areas of people’s lives into which government does not impose itself – and, alas, it would be a very short list. But it was not always that way.
Environment/Energy · Health Care · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics · Regulation
It falls to the voters themselves to rescue the rule of law and the Constitution from the President Obama’s lawlessness.
Health Care · Legal Affairs · Politics
Manipulating large-scale legislative policies, duly enacted, around election schedules goes beyond the parameters of executive discretion.
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Random · Taxes
Barack Obama is finishing his fifth year as president, and continues to try to move America further in the direction of increased government paternalism with the implementation of ObamaCare, a push for a higher minimum wage, more intrusive business regulation, a drive for higher taxes to redistribute wealth, and a persistent insistence that individuals must sacrifice their own interests for that of “society.”
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
Inequality is his middle name.
Featured · Government · Liberty · Politics
It is a time to harness the power of the people who hold the Constitution in high regard and to vote for those who share that regard.
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Politics
America is in desperate need for the increasingly polarized Republican Party to unite on the foundation created by the Founding Fathers to promote the morality of the Constitution.
Lincoln understood that the intertwining of free labor and property rights was essential to securing and maintaining the liberty espoused by the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the Constitution.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics
There is no reason the law should favor state power at the expense of individual rights in combating computer crime or defending the nation’s information systems from foreign attack.
The post office has a terrific advantage of being mentioned in the Constitution and being able to use federal authority to promote the common good.
Economics · Featured · Legal Affairs · Liberty
An opportunity to move back toward reinstituting the protections of economic freedoms (and away from the unbridled deference paid to police power legislation) has presented itself in the Great State of Louisiana.
Domestic law enforcement agencies are using intelligence intercepts and other electronic information against Americans who have nothing to do with terrorism.
McAuliffe and his Democrats say Cuccinelli is an “extremist.” How so? Well, Cuccinelli believes that marriage is between one man and one woman. Where did he get that kooky, outdated idea?
Featured · Health Care · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics
Official, governing opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Justice Department state that the President has the power to decline to enforce laws he believes are unconstitutional. “But these opinions have always insisted that the President has no authority…to ‘refuse to enforce a statute he opposes for policy reasons.’”
Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics
Why should unduly burdensome regulations that place obstacles in the path of those looking to exercise one right be struck down while equally burdensome regulations that infringe on another right are upheld?
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
If the demonization of the enforcement of intellectual property rights were to catch on, the brightest among us would be significantly less likely to invent in every case where the benefits of expending the effort do not overwhelmingly outweigh the costs.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics
Anything the Congress does still must be constitutional. As the Court reiterated yesterday, the Voting Rights Act “imposes current burdens and must be justified by current needs” and that “a departure from the fundamental principle of equal sovereignty requires a showing that a statute’s disparate geographic coverage is sufficiently related to the problem that it targets.”
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Media · Politics · Regulation
The Barack Obama Administration has been on a five-plus-year-long Collect-As-Much-Information-On-Us-As-Possible spree.
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