New Year’s Resolutions for State Legislators
The biggest news of 2010 was the gain of 690 state legislative seats by Republicans and their capture of both State Houses in 26 states.
Continue reading →Government by Regulations Instead of Laws and Treaties
The Senate’s environmentalism expert, Jim Inhofe (R-OK), warns us that the Obama Administration is trying to implement Cap-and-trade anyway by bureaucratic regulations.
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Obama versus ‘We the People’
Americans were treated to welcome entertainment during the dog days of summer as we watched the Democrats wring their hands over Barack Obama’s tone deafness about political reality.
Continue reading →Elena Kagan Should Be Rejected
Barack Obama revealed his goal for the Supreme Court when he complained on Chicago Radio Station WBEZ-FM in 2001 that the Earl Warren Court wasn’t “radical” enough because “it didn’t break free from the essential constraints placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution” in order to allow “redistribution of wealth.”
Continue reading →Obama Missed A Great Chance
President Obama had a golden Memorial Day opportunity to show the country that (contrary to his left flank) he is not anti-military and not anti-Christian, by telling Attorney General Eric Holder to order the Park Service to permit volunteer veterans to replace the Mojave Cross that was stolen on May 9.
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Good Advice Against a Con Con
Suggestions that the United States call a new constitutional convention, as allowed in the Constitution’s Article V, have popped up in some state legislatures and even on a page in the Wall Street Journal.
Continue reading →Supreme Court Needs at Least One Veteran
For as long as we can remember, the U.S. Supreme Court has included at least one military veteran.
Continue reading →Ten Reasons Why Obamacare Must Be Stopped
The American people oppose Obamacare by almost 2 to 1 in the latest CNN poll. Other polls also show lopsided opposition to passing either the Senate or House health-care bill.
Continue reading →Congress Must Stop the Trial in New York City
The U.S. Constitution can rescue us from the Obama Administration’s latest push toward “remaking America.”
Continue reading →Harold Koh Is Too Dangerous for America
Does Barack Obama really want to make Americans subject to foreign law and courts? That is the question Senators should ask when they vote on his nomination of Harold Hongju Koh, former dean of the Yale Law School, to be the top lawyer at the State Department.
Continue reading →Don’t Fall for Cap and Tax
Barack Obama promised that he won’t raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. He neglected to mention that this tax exemption will go only to those who don’t use electricity, gasoline, heating oil, or natural gas.
Continue reading →Beware of Attacks on the Constitution
Americans are fortunate to have a written Constitution that has withstood the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune for more than two centuries, and we certainly don’t need a new constitution.
Continue reading →Keeping Our American Identity
Can you name the three branches of American government, legislative, executive, and judicial?
Continue reading →Con Con Is a Terrible Idea
We already have a U.S. Constitution that has withstood the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune for more than two centuries, and we don’t need a new constitution. There is nothing wrong with the one we have except that politicians are not obeying it and judges are indulging in too much activism.
Continue reading →Who Will Protect Us Against Invasion?
President George W. Bush, in China attending the Olympic Games, responded promptly to Russia’s invasion of Georgia with the caveat that “territorial integrity must be respected.” We’re still waiting to hear the Bush Administration’s response to this month’s invasion of Arizona’s territorial integrity by the Mexican military.
Continue reading →One Brave Judge Resists Feminist Agenda
A New Jersey judge recently confronted an issue that courts have been avoiding for years: are restraining orders constitutional? Accused criminals have “due process” and many other constitutional rights, but the feminists have persuaded many judges to issue orders that restrain actions of non-criminals and punish them based on flimsy, unproved accusations.
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