Showing posts with label executive order. Show all posts
Showing posts with label executive order. Show all posts

Jacob Sullum: Obama Frees Drug War Prisoners

Credit where credit is due.  On October 31, 1996, the Sanilac County Sheriff's Office, which serves a largely rural area in Michigan's thumb, got a call from a local resident who said he was concerned about his neighbor, Darrell Hayden. No one had heard from Hayden for several days, the man said, and his horses were wandering down Argyle Road. The       ... MORE

Stanley Kurtz: When Hillary's Server Meets Obama's Pen

The next level of tyranny.    Would a Hillary Clinton presidency rerun the corruption, secrecy, and paranoia of the 1990s?  Sure, but that’s not the half of it.  The larger problem would be a marriage of Hillary’s “Go to hell” attitude with Obama’s dangerous expansion of executive authority. What happens when someone who thinks “the rules don’t apply   ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: A Lone Wolf President

Can the president rewrite federal laws?      Can he alter their meaning? Can he change their effect? These are legitimate questions in an era in which we have an unpopular progressive Democratic president who has boasted that he can govern without Congress by using his phone and his pen, and a mostly newly elected largely conservative Republican ... MORE

More Like A Banana Republic Dictator Than A Lame Duck

by Thomas Sowell.    Just what happened last week on election day? And what is going to happen in the years ahead? The most important thing that happened last week was that the country dodged a bullet. Had the Democrats retained control of the Senate, President Obama could have spent his last two years in office loading the federal judiciary   ... MORE

Rand Paul Would Repeal Every Obama Executive Order

He just needs to get elected.    In front of a boisterous pub crowd of young voters here, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) ripped into President Obama over executive overreach and even vowed to repeal “all previous executive orders” in one of his first acts as president, should he run. Paul’s comments came to the New Hampshire chapter of      ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Lawsuits And Impeachment

Foredoomed symbolic actions are overrated.        Whenever Democrats are in real trouble politically, the Republicans seem to come up with something new that distracts the public's attention from the Democrats' problems. Who says Republicans are not compassionate? With public opinion polls showing President Obama's sinking approval  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: A Lame Duck Country?

Constitutional contempt for all to see.     Pundits are pointing to President Barack Obama's recent decline in public opinion polls, and saying that he may now become another "lame duck" president, unable to accomplish much during his final term in office. That has happened to other presidents. But it is extremely unlikely to happen to this  ... MORE

Charles Krauthammer: Government By Fiat

The Constitution means nothing to the current regime.     The Supreme Court this week admonished the Environmental Protection Agency for overreaching in regulating greenhouse gases. The Clean Air Act covers polluters that emit 250 tons per year (or in some cases, 100 tons). This standard makes no sense if applied to greenhouse gases.    ... MORE

Leaked Memo Uncovers Obama Administration Land Grab

by Shawn Martini.      Senator Jim DeMint took to the pages of the Washington Post this morning to raise the alarm about a planned, 10 million acre Western land grab by the Obama administration. A secret administration memo has surfaced revealing plans for the federal government to seize more than 10 million acres from Montana    ... MORE

Andrew 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  ... MORE

Deroy Murdock: The United States Of Decline

America unravels at an increasingly dizzying pace.     America is unraveling at a stunning speed and to a staggering degree. This decline is breathtaking, and the prognosis is dim. For starters, Obama now rules by decree. Reportedly for the 27th time, he has changed the rules of Obamacare singlehandedly, with neither congressional approval  ... MORE

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Andrew Napolitano: Executive Order Tyranny

Obama yearns to be king.         Can the president legally bypass Congress and rule the government by decree? The answer to the question above is: No. But you wouldn't know that by listening to President Obama. In the past three weeks, the president has made it clear how he plans to run the executive branch of the federal government in the next  ... MORE

Patrick J. Buchanan: Why Congress Is Held In Contempt

Impotence not seen as a virtue.       "I've got a pen," said President Obama early this week. "I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions ... that move the ball forward." "When I can act on my own without Congress, I'm going to do so," the president added Wednesday at North Carolina State. Thus did Obama signal that    ... MORE

John Stossel: Are We Rome Yet?

Empires do crumble.      Unfortunately, the fall of Rome is a pattern repeated by empires throughout history ... including ours? A group of libertarians gathered in Las Vegas recently for an event called "FreedomFest." We debated whether America will soon fall, as Rome did. Historian Carl Richard said that today's America resembles      ... MORE