On Broccoli, ObamaCare, and the Commerce Clause
The most important rule in constitutional law, the late Justice William Brennan liked to tell his law clerks, is "the rule of five." Five votes out of nine on the...
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Chief Justice Says States Have Compromised Their Sovereignty
Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday what has long been known but seldom spoken. During the third and final day of Supreme Court hearings on whether the Patient Protection...
Cradle-to-Grave Regulation Debated at “ObamaCare” Hearing
Supreme Court justices and opposing lawyers grappled with the question of limits on the power of Congress to regulate interstate markets Tuesday in the middle of three days of...
Justices Question “Penalty Tax” in “ObamaCare”
The attorney general of South Carolina told reporters Monday that the Supreme Court debate over the Patent Protection and Affordable Care Act is a life and death struggle, not...
Iran Nuke Threat Not Imminent, Officials Say
Iran does not have a nuclear bomb, has not decided to build one and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead. Those are three things the...
Georgia Tea Party Activists Allied With Unions in Fighting Anti-picketing Bill
Georgia Tea Party activists have joined forces with organized labor to oppose a bill before the state House of Representatives that would limit the right of demonstrators to gather...
N.H. House Kills Repeal of Same-sex Marriage
An effort to repeal the state's same-sex marriage law was rejected by the New Hampshire House of Representatives Wednesday, with lawmakers in Concord voting 211-116 to kill the repeal...
House Budget Committee Chairman Ryan Says Voters Ready for Budget Cuts
Despite predictable outcries against a plan advertised as a $5.3-trillion cut in federal spending over the next 10 years, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis., left) says voters...
N.C. Rep. Walter Jones: “Uncle Chang” Funding $10B-a-Month War in Afghanistan
Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C., left) asked Tuesday when Congress might hear that it's time for Americans to come home from the war "Uncle Chang" is funding in Afghanistan. "As...
Santorum Still Explaining His Specter Endorsements
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum's interview on ABC's This Week Sunday appeared to be going well until guest host Jonathan Karl asked the former Pennsylvania Senator about another in...
St. Joseph and the Rendering Unto Caesar
A fanatic, Santayana said, is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim. It's a pretty fair description of the way Americans celebrate Saint Patrick's Day,...
NSA Building Largest Spy Center Ever
In the little town of Bluffdale, Utah, between the Wasatch Range and the Oquirrh Mountains, the National Security Agency (NSA) is building what will be the nation's largest spy...
New Spy Apparatus Lets People “Bug” Themselves
The good news is that in the near future governments, including our own, may no longer be planting bugs or tapping phones to spy on people. The bad news...
Afghan Probe Claims 15 to 20 U.S. Soldiers Involved in Massacre
Between 15 and 20 American soldiers were involved in the March 11 massacre of civilians in Kandahar Province, according to a parliamentary probe of the killings, not merely one...
Possible Assassination Attempt on Panetta Reported
A driver who crashed a vehicle on a Kabul runway near Leon Panetta's plane Wednesday may have been targeting the U.S. Defense Secretary in a car bomb attack, the...