Constitution
No Compromise on Compromise
From infancy on, most Americans hear a steady litany of "compromise, compromise, compromise." Whether parents are breaking up a toddler fight in a...
Does the District Court Have Jurisdiction in Case Against Arizona?
Apart from the question of whether there exists an enumerated power in Congress to legislate in matters of immigration policy, there is the...
Read moreIs There an Enumerated Power Over Immigration?
In Judge Susan Bolton’s ruling granting the federal government partial preliminary injunction of several key provisions of Arizona's S.B. 1070, she made specific...
Read moreObama Seeks Expanded Internet Surveillance Authority
Just one week after the American Civil Liberties Union issued a report castigating the Obama administration for its extension and expansion of Bush-era...
Read moreACLU: Obama’s “New Normal” Is Bush’s Old One
Though neoconservatives and other pro-national security-state types would have Americans believe that President Obama has made a clean break with the Bush administration’s...
Read moreFederal Judge Blocks Enforcement of Key Provisions of S.B. 1070
The ink on S.B. 1070 hadn’t dried before motions to enjoin its enforcement were filed in federal district court. One of those motions,...
Read moreElena Kagan Furthers the Funding of Radical Islam
Elena Kagan has a problem with fundamentalism — Christian fundamentalism. Kagan has no similar qualms about Sharia, the jurisprudential expression of Islamic fundamentalism,...
Read moreMassachusetts Moves to Circumvent the Electoral College
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is on the verge of passing a new law that will circumvent the Electoral College system so that future...
Read moreObama Retreats From “Religious Freedom” to “Freedom of Worship”
The wisdom of the Founding Fathers of the American Republic was such that the preservation of religious liberty was enunciated in the first...
Read moreJudge Andrew Napolitano Renews Call For Indictment of Bush/Cheney
Fox Business Channel host of Freedom Watch Andrew Napolitano has renewed a call for the indictment of former President Bush and Vice President...
Read moreNY National Guard Violate Posse Comitatus
Reports from the Empire State indicate that the National Guard is assisting local law enforcement in Albany, that state's capital city, to search...
Read moreOakland Officials Get SMART to Circumvent the Constitution
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is clear: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and...
Read moreACLU Tries to Ground No-Fly List
Once in a while the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) gets something right. Case in point: the ACLU’s lawsuit challenging the federal no-fly...
Read moreThe McDonald Decision and the Second Amendment
The Supreme Court has issued its ruling in the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago. The court found, in a 5-4 vote,...
Read moreBlack Landowners Fight to Reclaim Land Taken by Feds
A group of black former residents of an area of McIntosh County, Georgia, known as Harris Neck has banded together in an attempt...
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