The Obamacare Ruling and the Rise of Unlimited Government
There have been so many bad decisions rendered by the Supreme Court in American history that it is difficult to rank the court’s recent ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka...
View ArticleYes, the Supreme Court’s Medicaid Decision was Good Contract Law
In NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare decision) a 7-2 majority voided that part of the law that required states to join the Medicaid expansion or lose all (not just a part) of their Medicaid funds. The...
View ArticleJudge postpones hearing on Aurora mass-shooting suspect’s notebook
A hearing regarding the notebook of the Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes that he mailed to his psychiatrist has been postponed for one week. The subject was supposed to be debated during...
View ArticleCelebrating Justice O’Connor: Parade Magazine Muffs the Job
This week's Parade Magazine, the Sunday insert, featured a cover article on former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. It was a terrific choice: Justice O’Connor has lived an inspirational life....
View ArticleThe Supreme Court – A Law Unto Themselves
Wherever LAW ends, tyranny begins. – Inscription in the Minnesota Supreme Court chambers Recently, Judge Andrew Napolitano gave a dim prognostication of what could happen to the rights of the American...
View ArticleCan You Trust the President, Congress or the Courts to Protect Your Privacy...
“The game is rigged, the network is bugged, the government talks double-speak, the courts are complicit and there’s nothing you can do about it.”—David Kravets, reporting for Wired Nothing you write,...
View ArticleWhy States Must Shun the Obamacare Medicaid Expansion
During the Obamacare case before the Supreme Court, the Independence Institute argued that the law’s provisions forcing the states to expand Medicaid were unconstitutional. Neither the Constitution nor...
View ArticleTen most wanted corrupt politicians list released by watchdog
As occurs each and every January 1, the nation’s top legal eagles for investigating government corruption and abuse released their own list of top ten government leaders — corrupt government leaders....
View ArticleIs the Supreme Court Ruling on Surveillance Really That Significant?
In a remarkable achievement of legal sophistry, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against a constitutional challenge to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act. The 5–4 ruling this February...
View ArticleFormer Michigan Supreme Court Justice sentenced for bank fraud
A bank fraud suspect who once sat on the bench of the highest court in the state of Michigan will be spending the next year of her life behind bars, the U.S. Attorney’s office reported this week. Diane...
View ArticleSupreme Court vs. Supreme Authority
“I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.” – Martin Luther King Jr. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected any day to release opinions on...
View ArticleCourt rulings elevate sexual identity over race
The Supreme Court’s decisions are dividing Democrats as much as Republicans. This week the U.S. Supreme Court issued a series of opinions defining civil rights that could portend a dramatic change in...
View ArticleHeritage: SCOTUS Decision by the Numbers
The Heritage Foundation today published a short overview of the ramifications of this week’s Prop 8 and Defense of Marriage Act cases at the Supreme Court. From Heritage: 50 The number of states...
View ArticleSupreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling: Stigmatization of America
Throughout the United States, gay marriage proponents are celebrating, proclaiming that the Supreme Court’s rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8 has made the...
View ArticleMock ‘Marriage’ and the Death of Freedom
While poorly decided U.S. Supreme Court cases are a dime a dozen, prior to last Wednesday, two stood out among the most wretched and constitutionally groundless in American History. First was the 1857...
View ArticleEntertained out of your freedoms
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. For those who did not know the severity of that which is taking...
View ArticleSupreme Court Marriage Decisions
The Supreme Court decision on marriage, as Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his dissent, “is an assertion of judicial supremacy over the people’s Representatives in Congress and the Executive. It...
View ArticleJustice Department places ‘hold’ on Trayvon Martin trial evidence, including...
The U.S. Department of Justice, overseen by Attorney General Eric Holder, has ordered the Sanford, Florida police department to keep possession of all the evidence from George Zimmerman’s second-degree...
View ArticleJudges Who Want to be Supremacists
Redefining the First Amendment is a core aim of Barack Obama’s plan to “fundamentally transform the United States.” He is steadily changing the First Amendment’s words, “free exercise” of religion, to...
View ArticleSenator Rand Paul is Right About the NSA, Wrong About the Supreme Court
United States Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is outraged about the surveillance activities of the National Security Agency which has been caught red-handed collecting vast troves of data on American...
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