Harry Reid's Senate seems to think so. It’s one of the clearest, easiest-to-understand provisions in the Constitution. And Harry Reid’s Senate flouts it routinely. The Origination Clause in Article I, Section 7 states: “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.” ... MOREMichael G Franc: Is The Constitution A Republican Plot?
Harry Reid's Senate seems to think so. It’s one of the clearest, easiest-to-understand provisions in the Constitution. And Harry Reid’s Senate flouts it routinely. The Origination Clause in Article I, Section 7 states: “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.” ... MORERonald Bailey: Separating Church And State Money
If religious institutions truly want to be left alone .... “I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute,” Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum declared in a February 26 interview with ABC’s This Week. “What kind of country do we live in that says only people of nonfaith can come into the public ... MOREF H Buckley: Meet The Flukes!
Too many Americans today are "born without a skin." There’s a uniquely American ritual that has so far escaped the attention of cultural anthropologists. A group of people huddle, near a water cooler perhaps. One of them lowers his head, looks nervously from side to side, and then begins to speak softly, so that no one else might hear. You’ve ... MOREWashington Times: The War On Teachers Unions
Romney seizes high ground on school choice. Parents would like to choose where their kids go to school, if they could. In a speech to the Latino Coalition’s Annual Economic Summit in Washington D.C., Mitt Romney laid out his case for choice-based education reform. “Here we are in the most prosperous nation, but millions of kids are getting a Third ... MORE
Glenn Greewald: Obama's Warrantless Spying Fight
Wants reform-free power to eavesdrop without warrants. In 2006, The New York Times‘ James Risen and Eric Lichtblau won the Pulitzer Prize for their December, 2005 article revealing that the Bush administration was eavesdropping on the electronic communications of Americans without the warrants required by the FISA law (headline: “Officials Say U.S. ... MOREJohn Stossel: Crony Capitalism Stifles Competition
Instinctively, we look for people's motives. We need to know whom we can trust and whom we can't. We're especially skeptical of business because we know business wants our money. It took me too long to understand that business's desire for profit is a good thing. To get our money, businesses — if they can't look to the government for favors ... MOREKenric Ward: 'Repeal Amendment' Gets A Virginia Push
Self-defense from an unlimited federal government. Virginians are among the leaders pushing a Repeal Amendment that would give states the option to revoke federal laws or regulations. Touted by conservatives and constitutionalists as a tool to restore the balance of national and state governments, the amendment would enable states to repeal any ... MOREThis Memorial Day, Freedom Is Dying Before Our Very Eyes
by Andrew Napolitano. What if Memorial Day reminds us of times when we had more freedom? What if freedom is dying right under our eyes? What if the memory of the past is more fulfilling than the reality of the present? What if the federal government could write any law, regulate any behavior and tax any event, no matter what the Constitution ... MOREKyle Olson: Are We Slaves To The Government Class?
Public servants or public masters? Over the past year, a lot of people have been talking about “the 1%” versus “the 99%.” But if you’re concerned about one class exploiting another for economic gain, that’s the wrong way to look at the problem. The protesters are right about one thing: there are gross class inequities in America. There is one class that ... MORE
VIDEO: John Stossel - Reining In Regulation
A look at the "Reins Act" as a means of curbing America's regulatory monster.
Sarah Hulsenga: Romney To Greatly Expand School Choice
A serious proposal to improve American education. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday proposed a major change in the government's education policy that would tie federal funds to students and not schools and greatly expand school choice. "I'm going to expand parental choice in an unprecedented way," Romney says ... MOREEddy Dlfenbein: 100 Million Americans Without Jobs
The national unemployment rates gets lots of attention, and lately more attention has been paid to the workforce participation rate since more Americans have given up looking for a job, but we can also see that an astounding 100 million Americans don’t have jobs. Specifically, these are people who are part of the civilian over-16 non-institutional ... MOREDavid Harsanyi: Church Of The Holy Contraception
The new mandated societal imperative. Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am. Though it's commonly said that social conservatives would force us to live under theocratic rule if they could, these days the group most successful in imposing its worldview on others happens to be ... MORE
Johan Goldberg: Obama, Romney And The 'Social Market'
Which kind of capitalism is in our future? ‘This is not a distraction, this is what this campaign is going to be about,” President Obama said Monday at the NATO summit. The “this” in question is Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital and what it says about Romney’s economic vision for the country. Team Romney should have ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Is That A Spy In Your Pocket?
Warrantless cellphone tracking threatens your privacy. In January the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that tracking a suspect's movements by attaching a GPS transmitter to his car counts as a "search" under the Fourth Amendment. But because the majority opinion emphasized the physical intrusion needed to surreptitiously install ... MORERichard F Miniter: Education Decline, One Step At A Time
SMART arguments for dumb ideas. Some time ago, I joined the National Council for the Social Studies, the NCSS. I've since had that membership canceled -- I suspect because they read some of my pieces and realize I'm neither a social studies teacher nor a groupie. However, thanks to that fleeting association, I remain on several NCSS e-mailing lists ... MORE
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