Thomas Sowell on affirmative action and judicial activism.
VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Congressional Testimony
Thomas Sowell on affirmative action and judicial activism.
David Beckworth: The Low-Interest-Rate Blues
The Fed continues to make deficit spending easier. One of the most insidious developments in the economic crisis has been the low-interest-rate environment. Short-term interest rates have been stuck near 0 percent for four years, while long-term interest rates have declined to historically low levels. These low interest rates have created ... MOREWhen Congress Voted Down The Fourth Amendment
by Radley Balko. Earlier this month,
President Obama nominated North Carolina Rep. Mel Watt to head up the
Federal Housing Finance Authority. Here's a fun little nugget about Watt
that has little relevance to the job he's seeking, but has lots of
relevance to the current debates over leaks, press investigations,
wiretapping, and such: Back in ... MOREBob Unruh: States React To Fed Agenda With Nullification
Fighting back against government overreach. On the heels of a recent
poll that said 29 percent of registered voters believe an “armed
revolution” may be needed in America to restore liberties, a second poll said Americans already have figured out a solution – reject federal laws that are unconstitutional. Now it appears on issues ranging from ... MOREZach Weissmueller: Who Decides How You Die?
A question of self-ownership. You may have the right to control your own life, but what about
your own death? This is a question facing several states across the
U.S., including, most recently, Vermont and Montana. While physician aid-in-dying, or assisted suicide, has been
legal in Oregon for almost two decades and legal in Washington
for ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: An Assault On Freedom Of The Press
Government's response to inconvenient truths. The firestorm commenced by the revelation of the execution of a search warrant on the personal email server of my Fox News colleague James Rosen continues to rage, and the conflagration engulfing the First Amendment continues to burn; and it is the Department of Justice itself that is fanning ... MOREBarry Farber: Lois Lerner Is The New Chutzpa Champ
Move over Sweet Daddy Grace. Chutzpa is busting out all over. “Chutzpa” is the Yiddish word for a quality possessed by gutsy characters who bristle with unspeakable effrontery, the kind of person who could walk through a revolving door behind you and come out ahead of you. It takes chutzpa, for example, to shoot both parents and then ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Obama Debates War On Terror With Self
President criticizes his own abuses of executive power. Last week a guy named Barack Obama gave a
speech in which he expressed appropriate concern about the
abuse of government power in the name of fighting terrorism. Too
bad he's not in a position to do anything about it. Obama, who used to teach constitutional law at the University of ... MOREAriel Shearer: IRS Targets Medical Marijuana In War On Pot
The tea party has company. For the past several years, the Internal Revenue Service has been systematically targeting medical marijuana establishments, relying on an obscure statute that gives the taxing agency unintended power. The IRS has been functioning as an arm of justice, employing the U.S. tax code as a weapon in the federal ... MOREVIDEO: How To Build Your Own AK-47
Reporter Bryan Schatz went inside a "build party" where anyone can make a rifle that no cop will ever know about. Read the full story here.
Jeffrey Folks: Christie Conservatism
The president's bulky and ungainly doormat. Once again, Chris Christie has walked the Jersey Shore with President Obama, and once again he has enunciated what his brand of conservatism means. It is not, he said, an attempt to gain political advantage or advance one's ideology. Nothing so ungenerous as that. It's the opportunity ... MORE
John Stossel: Gas Myths
Plan to drive more this summer? Annoyed by the price of gas? Complaining that oil companies rip you off? I say, shut up. Even if gas costs $4 per gallon, we should thank Big Oil. Think what they have to do to bring us gas. Oil must be sucked out of the ground, sometimes from war zones or deep beneath oceans. The drills now bend and dig sideways ... MORETeacher Faces Discipline For Informing Students Of Rights
by Jacob Sullum. A
high school social studies teacher in Batavia, Illinois, faces
disciplinary action for informing students of their Fifth Amendment
rights in connection with a survey asking about illegal drug use.
The survey, ostensibly aimed at assessing the needs of students at
Batavia High School, was distributed on April 18. After picking up ... MOREHolder's Judge Shopping For A Fox News Subpoena
by Larry O'Connor, Breitbart News. The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, a bulldog on the DOJ/Fox News secret subpoena story, reports that the effort by the Justice Department to obtain the controversial court order was arduous, contentious and unsuccessful until finally a third judge acquiesced. The new documents show that two judges ... MORE
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)