Will national politicians allow liberty? Imagine your state just passed a law legalizing marijuana in small amounts. If you are at least 21 years old, you can possess up to two ounces, give as much as one ounce to other adults, and grow as many as six marijuana plants at home. Because you enjoy consuming pot recreationally, you plant ... MORE
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Andrew Giambrone: Will Congress Let D.C. Legalize Pot?
Will national politicians allow liberty? Imagine your state just passed a law legalizing marijuana in small amounts. If you are at least 21 years old, you can possess up to two ounces, give as much as one ounce to other adults, and grow as many as six marijuana plants at home. Because you enjoy consuming pot recreationally, you plant ... MORELawmakers Should Protect Property Rights
What a conservative Congress should do. Property rights are a fundamental value of political conservatives, and the new conservative majorities in Congress and the state Legislature have early opportunities to enhance those rights. Those rights most often have become controversial in eminent domain cases, where governments ... MOREWith a Big GOP Wave, Americans Wisely Voted for Gridlock
by J.D. Tuccille. On election night, TV talking heads watching the Republican wave/surge/tidal flow across the country earnestly looked at each other and asked if the new Republican Senate majority can work with the president and overcome the gridlock that has so turned off voters. Umm...what? Yeah, I know Americans keep telling ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Waging War
The War Powers Resolution is a two-edged sword. James Madison is commonly referred to as the Father of the Constitution in large measure because, in the secrecy of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, he kept the most complete set of notes. He also had a very keen mind and a modest demeanor and an uncanny ... MOREJosh Hicks: IRS Finds More Key Hard-Drive Crashes
They say just bad luck, no tampering. The Internal Revenue Service is missing e-mails from five more employees whose records could shed light on the agency’s targeting scandal, but there are no signs that its personnel have intentionally destroyed evidence, according to an IRS review. In a report to four congressional committees on Friday, ... MORE
Sally Pipes: Obamacare's Device Tax Grows More Devious
Business is not going well at the Internal Revenue Service. The agency projected that it would collect $1.2 billion between April and September of last year from Obamacare’s medical device tax, which went into effect at the beginning of 2013. But the tax take was just three-quarters of that. Implementing the tax has proven nightmarish. ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Spying, Lying And Torture
The manifestation of lawlessness and incompetence. In some respects, the recent admission by CIA Director John Brennan that his agents and his lawyers have been spying on the senators whose job it is to monitor the agency should come as no surprise. The agency's job is to steal and keep secrets, and implicit in those tasks, Brennan ... MOREJason Snead: Civil Forfeiture Criticized in Congress
Politician comes out against legalized theft. The growing national chorus in favor of civil asset forfeiture reform
gained new allies in the halls of Congress last week. Denouncing civil
forfeiture as an “ugly development,” Representative Tim Walberg (R–MI) took to the floor of the House of Representatives to call for the practice to be ... MORE
Incumbents Should Be Tossed To The Curb, But Won't Be
by David Harsanyi. 90% will be re-elected. Even in the most catastrophic year for congressional incumbents, 90 percent of them will win re-election—and most of them will do so rather easily. Many of them, in fact, won't even have to run a campaign. This fact might be somewhat obscured lately, what with all the talk of the impending ... MORELet's End Congress's Blanket Authorization Of Force
by Gene Healy. It may sound hard to believe, but Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid,
D-Nev., isn't always wrong–at least when he states the obvious:
"9/11 is a long time ago," he
said Wednesday, "and it's something that needs to be
looked at again." The "it" is the post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military
Force resolution, or AUMF, adopted three days ... MOREThe Dumbest Federal Policy You'll Read About Today
by A. Barton Hinkle. It benefits special interests, hurts consumers, and harms the planet. If you are like most people, you probably spend a lot of time
wondering, "What is the absolutely worst environmental policy on
the planet?" And if you are like most people, you probably think it
is America’s ethanol policy. So Virginia's recent decision to ... MOREVIDEO: Garden Variety Congressional Nitwittery
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U.S. Congresswomen thinks Constitution is 400 years old.
U.S. Congresswomen thinks Constitution is 400 years old.
Walter E Williams: Governed By Rules, Not Men
What kind of rules should govern our lives? I'd argue that the best rules are those that we'd be satisfied with if our very worst enemy were in charge of decision-making. The foundation for such rules was laid out by my mother. Let's look at it. My mother worked as a domestic servant. That meant that my younger sister and I often lunched ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: An Unconscionable Silence
Our cowardly Congress. The political philosopher Edmund Burke once remarked that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good folks to do nothing. A glaring example of the impending triumph of a constitutional evil that could be stopped by folks who have been largely silent is the tyranny coming from the White House. And the folks ... MOREHouse Punts on Debt Ceiling, Cedes Power Of The Purse
by Robert Romano. A feckless gaggle of representatives. Last August, before a partial government shutdown occurred in the
ill-fated attempt to defund Obamacare, House Republican leaders were
reportedly urging their conference to just wait for the debt ceiling,
that that would be the time to achieve some concessions. On August 13, National ... MORE
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