The Senate Judiciary Committee’s 10-9 partisan defeat of President Bush’s nomination of Charles Pickering contains lasting lessons for Republicans, conservatives, and all those who want to stop judicial activism and limit the imperial judiciary to its constitutional role.
Continue reading →The Bush Administration just took a welcome step to disentangle the United States from the global legacy of the late, unlamented Clinton Administration.
Continue reading →The INS didn’t learn any lessons from its embarrassing approval of student visas for the two dead terrorists who flew the planes into the World Trade towers on September 11.
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Many parents assume that the tests given to their children in public school are only for educational purposes. To the contrary, for many years schools have been demanding that students answer nosy questions about their personal behavior and attitudes, about what goes on inside the family, and even about the behavior of relatives.
Continue reading →DACOWITS has demanded that women be assigned to submarines, to the crews of Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (the vehicles that launch rockets during land-combat operations), to the helicopter crews of Special Operations units such as the Army Rangers, and even to land combat units that directly engage the enemy.
Continue reading →The American people do not and should not tolerate government by secrecy.
Continue reading →Having had to retreat from legislative attempts to establish a national ID card through Social Security numbers or unique health care identifiers, Congress seems to be trying a new tack to implement this wholly un-American idea.
Continue reading →Those who cross our border today are not becoming full participants in American society and do not learn our language.
Continue reading →The Bush Administration has adopted the approach proclaimed by Bill Clinton in a speech in Chicago on January 22, 1997: “We can no longer hide behind our love of local control of the schools.”
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Where are all those strict-constructionist Republicans who’ve been complaining about activist judges who don’t respect the fact that the U.S. Constitution gives “all legislative powers” to the Congress? Don’t those Republicans realize that it is just as unconstitutional to transfer legislative powers to the executive branch?
Continue reading →“I am ruling out a tax increase,” the new Governor of debt-ridden New Jersey declared the day after his election. He said he is embarking on “an agonizing reappraisal of what government should do, and perhaps more importantly, what government ought not be doing.”
Continue reading →The Bush Administration’s announcements that it will delay indefinitely the admission of refugees from terrorist countries, and that it will find and deport foreigners who are illegally in the United States because their visa terms have expired, are two moves in the right direction.
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