Obama Policies Inspire “Blowback”
President Obama last week gave an interview in the Situation Room at the White House to discuss the decision he made one year ago to send Navy SEALs on...
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Rubio embraces interventionist foreign policy
In the circular world of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, you have to go further right to get to the left. "I recently joked that today, in the U.S. Senate,...
ALEC Drops Task Force Pushing “Stand Your Ground” Laws
The American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative organization that advocates "model legislation" for legislatures across the country, announced Tuesday that it is disbanding the task force that has promoted...
Opponents Distort the Meaning of Stand Your Ground Law
Imagine you an armed citizen walking down a busy street with a holstered gun under your jacket. A honking horn or perhaps someone's shouted greeting distracts your attention momentarily...
Task Force Says Inadequate Education Threatens U.S. Prosperity, Security
The United States spends more on K-12 education than many other developed countries, but with results so poor that inadequate education threatens national security, according to a study sponsored...
Cosby Blames “The Gun” for Trayvon Martin Killing
"It's the gun," actor, comedian, and sometime social commentator Bill Cosby said when asked about possible racial implications in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, whose killing sparked a...
Biden Pushes “Patriotic” Tax Hike on the Rich
Vice President Joe Biden Thursday repeated one of the controversial statements he made in the 2008 campaign. Speaking in Exeter, New Hampshire, Biden said it is patriotic for rich...
Remembering the “Amazin’ Mets” of 1962
The "bio" of legendary New York journalist Jimmy Breslin says he "has been a columnist since 1963, when he won national attention by covering John F. Kennedy's assassination from...
Court’s Approval Rating Beats Obama’s
If President Obama plans to run against the Supreme Court this fall, he may have some catching up to do. A Rasmussen Reports poll released Monday shows the high...
For Dems This Year, It’s Not “The Economy, Stupid”
With gasoline prices climbing back up toward $4 a gallon, the President's healthcare reform in troubled constitutional waters, and job growth underperforming even the most pessimistic forecasts in the...
Easter Message: On Avoiding — and Evading — the Obvious
We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men — George Orwell. Day by day remind yourself that...
Hope Springs “Infernal” on Opening Day
Like him or not, you can learn a lot by reading George Will's columns and books. I learned, for example, that someone long ago, perhaps before there were greenhouses,...
Report Says United States Is Planning Nuclear-powered Drones
While Washington's political leaders and much of the nation's news media have been calling attention to and raising alarm over Iran's nuclear program, the United States has been quietly...
High Court Okays Invasive Strip Search in Minor Offenses
If you are stopped for speeding or arrested for an unpaid fine, you may be subjected to a strip search and thorough inspection of even the most private body...
Now “Progressives” Want “Judicial Restraint”
There may very well be a train wreck coming if and when the Supreme Court declares the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ObamaCare") unconstitutional just before the justices...
On Broccoli, ObamaCare, and the Commerce Clause
The most important rule in constitutional law, the late Justice William Brennan liked to tell his law clerks, is "the rule of five." Five votes out of nine on the...
Chief Justice Says States Have Compromised Their Sovereignty
Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday what has long been known but seldom spoken. During the third and final day of Supreme Court hearings on whether the Patient Protection...
Cradle-to-Grave Regulation Debated at “ObamaCare” Hearing
Supreme Court justices and opposing lawyers grappled with the question of limits on the power of Congress to regulate interstate markets Tuesday in the middle of three days of...
Justices Question “Penalty Tax” in “ObamaCare”
The attorney general of South Carolina told reporters Monday that the Supreme Court debate over the Patent Protection and Affordable Care Act is a life and death struggle, not...
Iran Nuke Threat Not Imminent, Officials Say
Iran does not have a nuclear bomb, has not decided to build one and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead. Those are three things the...
