Texas to blackmailing Obama: Maybe you can just keep your federal funds By Dan Calabrese Surely you heard this past weekend about the Obama threat to withhold federal education funds from states who don’t immediately embrace Obama’s transgender bathroom policies. The current shell game of collecting money through the IRS and then sending it back […]
Court Says Administration Violated Constitution in Funding Obamacare Subsidies By Terence P. Jeffrey Judge Rosemary Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an opinion today declaring that the Obama administration violated the Constitution by funding Obamacare subsidies for which Congress did not appropriate funds. “Congress passes all federal laws in […]
Hillary: It’s just a ‘security inquiry’; FBI director: There’s no such thing . . . it’s a real investigation By Dan Calabrese Oh, and he just might release the full report if Obama tries to protect her. Maybe the Republicans should have nominated James Comey. The FBI director (who was a Bush appointee, after all) […]
Hillary, Deleter of the Free World Matthew Vadum Employees of the U.S. Department of Justice have given so much money to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign this time around that critics justifiably doubt the agency can handle her private email server case fairly and impartially. In what appears to be a super-sized potential conflict of interest, […]
‘Hope and change’ lies remembered By Herman Cain The collective public has a short political memory. But let there be controversy over which bathroom a person should use based on the sexual identity they were born with, the rights of a bakery not to make a cake against their religious beliefs, or which energy sources […]
Does Originalism Constrain Judges? Michael Rappaport One of the criticisms made of originalism is that an originalist methodology does not constrain judges. Recently, I heard a nonoriginalist critic of originalism claim that an originalist judge can reach any result that he desires. Even if we interpret this claim as exaggeration, I still believe that […]
States Don’t Have to Comply: The Anti-Commandeering Doctrine Mike Maharrey Most Americans believe that the federal government stands absolutely supreme. Nobody can question its dictates. Nobody can refuse its edicts. Nobody can resist its commands. This is simply not true. Laws passed in pursuance of the Constitution do stand as the supreme law of […]
Sane Jews Do Not Vote for Hillary By Joan Swirsky At the beginning of January 2016, an organization called NORPAC—a lobby whose mission is to support candidates and sitting members of Congress “who demonstrate a genuine commitment to the strength, security, and survival of Israel”—invited its members to “an exclusive and intimate” cocktail reception for […]
Obama Adviser Quoted: ‘We Created an Echo Chamber’ to Sell the Iran Nuclear Deal By Patrick Goodenough (CNSNews.com) – A lengthy New York Times Magazine profile of President Obama’s Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes portrays him as a spinmeister contemptuous of the foreign policy establishment who fed credulous journalists a misleading […]
North Carolina Lawmaker Dismisses U.S. Deadline To Change Bathroom Law By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – Republican leaders in North Carolina on Thursday refused to back down from a law regulating which restrooms can be used by transgender people after the federal government told the state the law violated the U.S. Civil Rights Act. […]