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Is there a more worthless phrase on the political landscape than “judicial activism”? And a court that gave us Bush v. Gore and Citizens United will prove conclusively that it sees no limits on its...
View ArticlePoint: How The Supreme Court Will Find The Individual Mandate Constitutional
This is part of The Liberty Papers’ continuing Point/Counterpoint series, where two contributors (or a contributor and a guest) argue competing sides of an issue. In this installment, I will argue that...
View ArticleCounterpoint: The Supreme Court Will Find The Individual Mandate...
Earlier this week, Brad Warbiany started out the latest in our occasional series of Point-Counterpoint exchanges by arguing that the Supreme Court will ultimately uphold the Constitutionality of the...
View ArticleOn Judge Jerry Smith’s “Homework Assignment” And Judicial Deference To The...
Last Tuesday, a federal judge in the 5th Circuit, Jerry Smith, blasted a DOJ lawyer on an ObamaCare case in the wake of Obama’s comments on judicial activism. The Judge assigned the lawyer a...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: Killing vs. Squealing Edition
Judge Andrew Napolitano wrote an excellent article in yesterday’s Washington Post entitled: Killing vs. Squealing. The judge laments that the Republicans in the congress aren’t so much concerned about...
View ArticleDo We Really Want the President to Enforce ALL Federal Laws?
The Rule of Law, theoretically at least, is superior to the arbitrary Rule of Men. For most of human history, the law has been subject to the whim of a head of state be s/he a monarch, czar, dictator,...
View ArticleFiscally Conservative Republicans To Spend $3M In Tax Dollars To Defend DOMA
Ugh. House Republican leaders have signed on to spend up to $3 million to keep defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court, according to a copy of their newly revised legal contract obtained by The...
View Article“Common Sense” Legislation to Curb Gun Violence?
Like most people who value individual liberty, I listened to President Obama’s speech about reducing gun violence with a great deal of trepidation. He presented several ideas such as limiting the size...
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Are You or Someone You Know a Victim of the Drone Mentality?
In light of the recent white paper release by the DOJ concerning the Obama administration’s drone policy, I thought it would be apropos to repost a post I wrote back in November 2011 entitled: Are You...
View ArticleRecovered from the Memory Hole: When Obama Supported the Sequester
President Obama is really insulting the intelligence* of the American people acting as if he had nothing to do with the sequester he signed. In the SOTU he said congress “passed” the sequester. But as...
View Article‘Super Epic’ Tweet of the Day
There’s some really great tweets about Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster. So far, this is my favorite: ACLU, CodePink & a Tea Party senator all on the same page. We’re an Elizabeth Warren rain dance away...
View ArticleThe Constitutional History Lessons You Didn’t Learn in School
More often than not, history is written by the winners and taught by individuals who love big government. Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom has been providing a refreshing non-P.C. presentation of history...
View Article“Bad” or “Wrong” or “I don’t like it” is not equivalent to “Unconstitutional”
In a comment on someone elses post, another reader wrote “The DEA is an unconstitutional and illegal agency”. This bugs me… We frequently see these sorts of statements made about the DEA, the ATF, the...
View ArticleAuthoritarians Willing to Sacrifice Liberty to Defeat Same-Sex Marriage
For decades, social-order authoritarians have been girding themselves in the armor of Borkian judicial restraintism in their battle against the phantom threat of wanton lifestyles. Naturally, the...
View ArticleThe Growing Cult of the Imperial Presidency
Yesterday, President Obama used executive orders to further burden the fundamental right of self-defense. On the same day, in an effort to defend his Senate absenteeism, GOP candidate Marco Rubio gave...
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