A government lawyer fears jurors voting their conscience. A government lawyer on Wednesday vigorously defended the prosecution of a man who urges jurors to sometimes disregard the law and vote their conscience, calling him a “significant threat’’ to the integrity of the judicial system. Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Mermelstein argued before ... MORELarry Neumeister: Jury Nullification Making Noise In NY
A government lawyer fears jurors voting their conscience. A government lawyer on Wednesday vigorously defended the prosecution of a man who urges jurors to sometimes disregard the law and vote their conscience, calling him a “significant threat’’ to the integrity of the judicial system. Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Mermelstein argued before ... MORER. Emmett Tyrrell Jr: The Overextended America
Rejecting the entitlement state for freedom and choice. We in America today live in a country circumscribed by entitlement policies devised by an America that has steadily been disappearing. Those policies established over a generation ago cannot possibly in mathematical or demographic terms support the America of the present much less the America of the ... MOREKen Klukowski: Eric Holder's War Against Gun Rights
Attorney General looks to curb, not protect, individual rights. This week we've seen confirmation that the National Rifle Association has been right all along about President Obama's choice for attorney general to lead the Department of Justice. Taken with Eric Holder's arguments at the Supreme Court, and Operation Fast and Furious, the picture ... MOREWashington Times: Obama Wants To Track You
Justice Dept seeks cellphone location information. Consumers love their iPhones, Androids and BlackBerrys. With built in GPS navigation, these handy little gadgets can point the way to the nearest gas station with a low price or the highest-rated restaurant within a few blocks. Results can be personalized based on the user’s location at any given moment ... MOREVictor Davis Hanson: A Gasoline Nightmare
5 reasons Obama's oil tactics won't work. Obama is barnstorming the west — blasting oil companies, trying to convince voters that he supports an “all of the above” policy, and reminding them that drilling has increased since his tenure. But that won’t work for five reasons. 1) No one believes that Obama is sincere. In 2008, in the hope-and-change ... MORE
Jonah Goldberg: The Federalist Solution
Disempower the national elites. The bleating about broken government and partisanship continues: “Why can’t those boobs in Washington agree on anything?” We’re constantly told that the way to fix the country is to dethrone the Left and the Right and empower the middle. Americans Elect, No Labels, the Gangs of Six and Fourteen, conservative Democrats, and ... MORERuss Vaughn: Fast & Furious Was Gun Control To Die For
Operation Vast & Obvious grows ominous. When Operation Fast & Furious first broke into the news, many of us immediately questioned the DoJ's irrational rationale. The proffered assertion that the program was designed to track firearms purchased in America to leaders of the Mexican drug cartels simply made no sense. The glaringly obvious flaw in the ... MOREJacob Sullum: Dharun Ravi's Hateless Hate Crime
Punished for his dead roommates's imagined feelings. After Dharun Ravi was convicted of "bias intimidation" crimes that carry a penalty of up to 10 years in prison, many people wondered why he had rejected a plea deal that would have kept him out of jail. Ravi's lawyer explained that the 20-year-old defendant's parents "didn’t believe their son acted with ... MORE
Christopher Chantrill: The Optics Of Obama's Failures
Of socialized medicine, green energy and Keynesian economics. People are starting to worry that President Obama might be wobbling on his visionary "all of the above" program to bring on the green energy millennium, what with $5.00 gas in the Northeast states. But don't worry. Even though the administration will be changing its "optics" on energy by featuring ... MOREMichelle Minton: Let States Regulate Internet Gambling
Government should protect, not restrict, freedom. This country has many serious problems to address, but an activity that millions of people around the world voluntarily enjoy, mostly without incident, is not one of them and it certainly does not warrant a big new federal regulatory agency. In a recent op-ed in The Washington Examiner, former Pennsylvania ... MOREJohn Hawkins: 5 Reasons Socialism Is Inferior To Capitalism
Economic liberty means people getting what they want. "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." - Winston Churchill. Saying that capitalism is better than socialism is like saying that winning a million dollars is better than being in a high impact car crash. ... MORERich Lowry: The Sad Plight Of Obama's Edsel
Chevy Volt is the Solyndra of automobiles. President Barack Obama says he wants to buy a Chevy Volt when he’s out of office in five years. If getting into a General Motors electric automobile means so much to him, he’d better hope he loses in November. What the president dubbed the “car of the future” in a visit to a Volt plant may not make it to January 2017. ... MORE
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