Before 2012, HHS Claimed No Authority to Grant Welfare Work Waivers
The Government Accountability Office found that prior to the Department of Health and Human Services' July memorandum granting waivers of welfare work requirements,...
Constitution
Fed. Appeals Court Skewers CIA on Charade of Secrecy About Drone Program
During a hearing on a lawsuit challenging the CIA’s persistent stonewalling of a petition seeking details of its death-by-drone program, federal appeals court...
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Attack of the Drones
The proliferation in the use of drones overseas and at home threatens timeless principles of constitutional liberty, including due process and the prohibition...
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High Court Will Rule on Gay “Marriage,” Ginsburg Predicts
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg predicted Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court will tackle the issue of same-sex marriage some time during the...
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ACLU Demands CIA Disclose Details of Death-by-Drone Program
Attorneys representing the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are scheduled to appear today in a federal appeals court in defense of that organization’s...
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Appeals Court Judge Reinstates Indefinite Detention — for Now
On Monday, September 17, on the 225th anniversary of the signing of the final draft of the Constitution, with a one-page order a...
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Whistleblower Protests Illegal NSA Data-Mining
A former employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) has released information revealing that the U.S. government has been extracting vast amounts of...
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The “Living Document,” Buried Alive
The Constitution may still be living, but it has been buried alive by deceit and sophistry. It may take archaeological tools to unearth the Declaration...
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UN Promotes Another Gun-Grabbing Program
A United Nations conference aimed at ridding the world of the "scourge" of privately-owned weapons ended recently and the report of the meeting...
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Constitution Day: 225 Years in Passage of Time; Light Years in Loss of Liberty
Every day our Republic moves more distant in many ways from that day 225 years ago when 39 of the original 55 delegates...
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Legal Foundation: ObamaCare Still Unconstitutional
With the help of the Pacific Legal Foundation, small businessman Matt Sissel argues that the majority opinion from Chief Justice John Roberts kills the Affordable Care Act because it did not...
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Federal Judge Permanently Blocks Indefinite Detention Under NDAA
On September 12 a federal district court judge made permanent on earlier order temporarily blocking enforcement of provisions of the National Defense Authorization...
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“Phantoms of Lost Liberty” Still Haunting Post-9/11 America
In announcing the global war on terrorism in his speech to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush...
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Obama Admin. Argues for Warrantless Cellphone Tracking
In a document filed September 4 in the D.C. District Court, the Obama administration argues that there is no “reasonable expectation of privacy”...
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Obama Lists His Five Criteria for Death by Drone
President Obama is tearing the shroud of secrecy off his once hush-hush death-by-drone program. From his interview with Ben Swann, host of Fox...
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