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January 2013

January 17, 2013

The gun control package

The President has issued sweeping new gun control measures, a combination of Congressional proposals and...

January 07, 2013

My prediction has already come true

On January 1, one week ago, I predicted in our annual exercise that someone would...

December 2012

December 18, 2012

The presidential election was held yesterday

The Electoral College cast its ballots on Monday. The results won't be official, though, until...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

A tie in the Electoral College?

One possibility in the election: Both candidates get 269 electoral votes, resulting in a tie. ...

October 08, 2012

Pulpit Freedom Sunday

Yesterday had been declared "Pulpit Freedom Sunday" by a group of activist pastors and a...

October 08, 2012

How illegal immigrants inflate the electoral college

Illegal immigrants and other non-citizens don't have the right to vote, of course. But, as...

September 2012

September 20, 2012

Why do we even have a president?

Historian Kenneth C. Davis looks at the origin of the office of the President, something...

August 2012

August 10, 2012

“Liking” as free speech

Well, the consensus as to my query about whether you would like a "like" feature...

August 03, 2012

When Taft saved the Constitution from Teddy Roosevelt

In the course of a column on Tea Party candidate Ted Cruz's victory in Texas...

July 2012

July 27, 2012

Government persecution of Chick-fil-A

Michael Barone summarizes a number of pundits criticizing the mayors of Boston and now Chicago...

June 2012

June 25, 2012

Commentary on Harrison’s “Open Letter”

Julia Polese of the Institute for Religion and Democracy on LCMS President Matthew Harrison's open...

June 25, 2012

Presidential lawlessness

Charles Krauthhammer on how President Obama is acting lawlessly, doing something that he himself earlier...

June 19, 2012

Obama as the new Nixon?

The president as above the law. From Victor Davis Hanson discussing the de facto amnesty...

June 08, 2012

Congress letting bureaucrats make the laws

Another practice in which Congress evades its constitutional responsibilities: Passing laws that consist largely of...

June 01, 2012

Defense of Marriage Act ruled unconstitutional

The Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law defining marriage as being between a man...

May 2012

May 09, 2012

The People’s Rights Amendment

House Democrats have introduced a proposed constitutional amendment that would specify that the rights guaranteed...

April 2012

April 16, 2012

The founders’ individual mandates

It is unconstitutional to force individuals to buy health insurance, according to critics of Obamacare. ...

March 2012

March 26, 2012

Supremes hear Obamacare arguments today

Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether or not Obamacare is constitutional. The...

March 23, 2012

The constitutional right to a plea bargain

The Supreme Court just rocked our criminal justice system: A divided Supreme Court ruled for...

March 12, 2012

The UN & NATO authorize our wars, not Congress

So says our Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: The Obama...

February 2012

February 20, 2012

Forcing a company to give away a product for free

Charles Krauthammer points out yet another problem with President Obama's contraceptive mandate compromise: The president...

February 10, 2012

Is the U.S. Constitution obsolete?

[An earlier version of this post went up with just the raw quotation and with...

January 2012

January 09, 2012

Recess vs. pro forma sessions

Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese on why, according to the Constitution, pro forma sessions...

December 2011

December 22, 2011

Newt and the courts

What do you think of Newt Gingrich's expressed plan, if he is elected president, to...

July 2011

July 04, 2011

The National Debt and the Constitution

As we wrestle with the national debt and as Congress debates over whether to raise...

June 2011

June 14, 2011

An even bigger reason why Obamacare is unconstitutional

So far the main argument why the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" is unconstitutional...

March 2011

March 07, 2011

Veto by lack of quorum

As you know, 15 Democratic state legislators in Wisconsin are hiding out in Illinois--beyond the...

March 03, 2011

You be the judge

Two Supreme Court cases. . . . (1) A man was shot. Just before he...

April 2010

April 01, 2010

Is the health care law unconstitutional?

An editorial in the Washington Post, no less, which supported the health care reform bill,...