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America’s Constitutional Crisis
It falls to the voters themselves to rescue the rule of law and the Constitution from the President Obama’s lawlessness.
Tagged: U.S. Constitution
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · FIRE
Where the U.S. Economy Is Going, and Why
The full bill for Obama’s failed economic policies has yet to arrive. But no such explosion of debt has ever escaped a day of reckoning, and no such monetary surge has ever had a happy ending.
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Featured · Government · Liberty · Politics · Random
Looking Into My 2014 Crystal Ball
Pundits are expected to make predictions for the year ahead and far be it for me to avoid what, generally speaking, depends on who is making them. Major trends are already in place and easy to predict as they proceed, but it is always unknown events that upend predictions. Mother Nature and perpetrators of evil can always be counted upon to provide them.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Government · Regulation
Crooked Labs, Agencies and Prosecutors
Former Durham, NC district attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred for withholding evidence from the defense and lying to the court in the trumped-up Duke lacrosse team rape case. Ex-Boston crime lab technician Annie Dookhan was prosecuted for faking test results and contaminating drug samples, to get accused dealers convicted. In both cases, charges against their victims were dismissed or are under review.
Featured · Politics · Regulation
Obama vs. the Constitution
“If you like your health plan, you can keep it,” is the Lie of the Year, according to PolitiFact. But Barack Obama has been operating under an even more momentous lie for his entire presidency.
The Supreme Court is Undermining Science and Society
The Supreme Court has taken up another case based on the Environmental Protection Agency’s campaign of lies that carbon dioxide is the cause of “climate change” and claims about the quality of air in the United States. The Court is composed of lawyers, not scientists.
Featured · Government · Random · Regulation
Are America’s Best Days Really Ahead?
America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century tells the story of our nation’s government as crushingly expensive, one that is failing at its basic functions and unable to keep its promises. Such an unworkable and out-of-control government cannot continue as the status quo.
Obamacare Yet Again Shows: More Government Means a Worse Private Sector
The lies about ObamaCare from the Administration and the Democrats are now being revealed in a fast and furious fashion.
Executive Branch Trampling on Privacy, Freedom of the Press
It’s a sobering thought that the executive branch has brought eight leak-related prosecutions in the past five years compared to only three under our Constitution’s previous 221.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics
‘So Far Out on a Limb It’s Pathetic’
What happens when Congress is not in session and the Commander-in-Chief is AWOL? You get Syria.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Liberty
Absolute Rights – and Wrongs: Is It Really All About the Kids?
In the wake of the celebrated shootings in Newtown, Connecticut; Aurora, Colorado; and the streets of Chicago, both parties have fallen over themselves to act “serious” about the problem of[...]
In Praise of Sequestration
For four straight years, the United States of America has not adopted a budget, notwithstanding the requirement of Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution that “a regular statement and[...]
A Federal Court Slaps Down President Obama’s Aggressive Abuse Of Executive Power
Can the President make “recess appointments,” which do not require Senate confirmation, when the Senate is not in recess? No President in American history had ever tried to do that before. But[...]
The Morality of Capitalism: If It Feels Good, Do It
Heartland’s CEO Joe Bast spoke recently at the “Yes, We Did Build It” rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin, sponsored by the Citizens for Responsible Government. (That’s Wisconsin Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, at[...]
Freedom of Religion, and What Hath God Wrought?
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m., the University of Chicago’s Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, Martha Nussbaum – appointed in both the Law[...]
President Obama: Legally Unfettered?
I’ve written before that President Obama seems shockingly ignorant of legal principles, including but not limited to constitutional law, surprisingly for a law school instructor who taught that specialty for[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Environment/Energy · Liberty
An Astronaut’s View on: the Shuttle Program, Climate, Labor, and Free Speech
Reactions to recent events by Harrison Schmitt — Heartland Institute Board member, former U.S. Senator (R-N.M.), and the last man (and first scientist) to set foot on the moon. (Cross-posted at America’s Uncommon[...]
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Readable Links- Who Owns the Land?
- The terrible economic burden of occupational licensing
- Competition, disruptive innovation, and men's razors
- Althouse: The Clinton White House "conspiracy commerce memo" warned, in 1995, that "THE INTERNET... allows an extraordinary amount of unregulated data and information to be located in one area and available to all."
- The Epic Hypocrisy of Tom Steyer
- Competition, Rent-Seeking, and High-Frequency Trading
- Popular Technology.net: 1350+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic Arguments Against ACC/AGW Alarm
