The media have been telling us to watch the gun-control case now before the U.S. Supreme Court, where we await a decision about Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
Continue reading →The indignation of Americans is growing rapidly about the U.S. Air Force granting a French company a $35 billion tanker-aircraft contract that could eventually grow to $100 billion and is estimated to create 100,000 jobs in Europe. French government subsidies are one of the factors that enabled the lucky company (known as EADS) to underbid Boeing.
Continue reading →Why are Republicans in Congress trying to help Barack Obama (D-IL)? Republicans allowed a bill that carries his name to pass the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by voice vote last week (without any hearings), which means there was no roll-call vote so we can hold any Member accountable. It passed the House by voice vote last year.
Continue reading →The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on December 4 will again hear a challenge by Michael Newdow to the Pledge of Allegiance and its phrase “under God.”
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Let’s face it. Some people, especially liberals, just don’t like our United States Constitution. Every few years, they come up with wild or devious plans to make major changes.
Continue reading →When displaced American workers complain about outsourcing U.S. manufacturing jobs to take advantage of cheap Chinese factory labor, and about insourcing low-paid Asians on H-1B visas to take engineering and computer jobs, the globalists and multinational corporations have a ready answer.
Continue reading →The three-nation summit at Montebello, Quebec, was held behind closed doors, well guarded behind an intimidating fence and plenty of police, but the news conference that followed on August 21 revealed more than the three heads of state had planned.
Continue reading →A new grab for power over education now lurking in the corridors of Congress reminds me of a song popular in the Harry James/Frank Sinatra era: “I’ve Heard That Song Before.” Section 3401, inserted by the Senate (but not the House) in the pending America COMPETES Act (S.761), would give us another costly and harmful expansion of the federal education bureaucracy.
Continue reading →Contrary to continuing media propaganda, the 2006 election and the killing of the Senate “comprehensive” immigration bill do NOT prove that anti-amnesty is a loser for Republicans.
Continue reading →The reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Education Act offers Congress a splendid opportunity to enforce parents’ rights that have been outrageously trampled on by the public schools.
Continue reading →The Tyranny of Tolerance was published this month with the subtitle: “A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault.”
Continue reading →President George W. Bush pardoned 16 criminals including five drug dealers at Christmastime, but so far has refused to pardon the two U.S. Border Patrol agents who were trying to defend Americans against drug smugglers.
Continue reading →Meth and marijuana aren’t the only drugs parents worry about. The problems caused by prescription combinations called “drug cocktails” have finally broken into the national news stream.
Continue reading →With all the public discussion about the values voters (whether they would vote in the 2006 election or stay home), the underlying (and still unanswered) question is, what is the role of government in defining our culture?
Continue reading →In at least six states, the crucial issue in the November 2006 election may turn out to be whether or not voters must present photo ID.
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Each year the Supreme Court grants fewer and fewer petitions for “cert,” or review. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just told Mike Wallace on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that “The Court receives over 8,000 applications for review each year.
Continue reading →Some federal employees are griping because a new law requires them to take a 25-minute tutorial on the U.S. Constitution. Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) sponsored this law, along with a similar law requiring every public school to “hold an educational program on the United States Constitution on September 17,” which is Constitution Day.
Continue reading →Who could have guessed that Osama bin Laden’s driver/bodyguard would be one of the privileged few to be granted a hearing by the high and mighty U.S. Supreme Court justices! After refusing to hear appeals from thousands of Americans during the past year, the Court’s liberals jumped at a chance to rule that President Bush was wrong.
Continue reading →President Bush entered the White House in 2001 hoping he would be known in history books as the education president who improved public school standards with “No child left behind.” It now looks like his legacy will really be “No illegal alien left behind.”
Continue reading →If President Bush had given his speech calling for immigration reform five years ago, we would have believed him. Now, after five years of doing nothing to protect our borders, he is not credible.
Continue reading →The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, known as Welfare Reform, has been cheered as a stunning achievement of the Republican Congress and its Contract With America.
Continue reading →When our supposedly compassionate federal government pokes its nose into areas that, under our principle of federalism, should be none of its business, the result is often unintended consequences, gross injustices, and of course massive costs.
Continue reading →The conservative movement that elected Ronald Reagan twice, George Bush I once, and George Bush II twice, is essentially a movement of grassrooters who don’t like to take orders from the top and who revolt when they believe they are betrayed or bossed by those they elected.
Continue reading →One of the Senators’ lines of questioning of Judge Samuel Alito that lacked follow-up concerned the power of Congress to define the jurisdiction of federal courts.
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