U.S.
(Center for Immigration Studies) This report
examines the efforts by the Southern Poverty
Law Center (SPLC) to smear the Federation
for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and,
by extension, the Center for Immigration
Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA. Conducted in
the name of tolerance, civility, and good
governance, that campaign is itself intolerant,
Citizens United Decision Affirms Free Speech Rights
(Washington Policy Center) The Supreme
Court’s recent decision in Citizens United,
striking down part of the 1971 Federal Elections
Campaign Act that criminalized political speech
by corporations and unions, has drawn much
attention and criticism. The attention is
warranted, but not the criticism. It remains
whether and to what extent corporations and
unions will use their newly confirmed right to
speak about federal candidates in our...
Protecting The Public From Itself: The Unconstitutional “Say No To Drug Ads” Act
(Washington Legal Foundation) This legal
backgrounder examines the Say No to Drug Ads
Act proposed to end the tax deductibility of
direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising.
After evaluating the SNDAA’s policy implications
and its impact on free commercial speech, the
publication concludes that the legislation would
be unsound and unconstitutional if passed into law.
The SNDAA’s contradictory goals...
Augustine and the Case for Limited Government
(Humanitas, Volume XVI, No. 2) This article
will examine those elements of Augustine’s
thought that bear on the issue of the proper
tasks of political authority and will explore his
insights for the light they shed on the
appropriate role of government in a decent
society. The aim is to show that both his
political thought and ontology are in accord
with the vision that impels the demand for
limited government as well as with the...
Keeping a Republic: Overcoming the Corrupted Judiciary
(Heritage Foundation) America, beginning
about 50 years ago, has steadily become less
of a republic, and there will always be those
who prefer the victory of their interests to
republican processes. The problem is both
political and intellectual, and so must be
the solution. Almost regardless of the
outcome of the intellectual struggle,
however, there remains the political battle
to nominate and confirm justices and judges
The Ready Reserver Corps: Buried in the Health Care BIll
Obamacare: Impact on the Uninsured
(Heritage Foundation) The Administration’s health policy agenda—embodied in Congress’s two giant health care bills (H.R.3590 and H.R.4872)—is now law. The justification for the new law’s burdensome taxes, unprecedented mandates, deficit spending, and stifling government regulation is that millions of Americans will now be insured. But the real impact Obamacare will have on the uninsured is not what many Americans might have expected...
Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice
(Mercatus Center) When government refuses to make itself transparent and open and fails to make public information meaningfully available, hackers will liberate the data. It has happened many times over, and it will doubtlessly happen again. Each time government data is freed, citizens gain useful access to valuable information that rightly belongs to them. But perhaps more importantly, government is forced to deal with the...
(National Center for Policy Analysis) On the campaign trail in 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama announced a plan to create five million new "green collar" jobs. Since becoming president, he has repeatedly touted his support for green jobs; for instance, in his 2010 State of the Union address and Earth Day remarks on April 22, 2010. In addition, recent stimulus legislation and appropriations bills have contained provisions to subsidize or promote green job creation.Unfortunately, there is growing...
MS-13 SMUGGLES THOUSANDS OF MUSLIM TERRORISTS INTO U.S.
(TheLastCrusade.org) The situation at the border now poses a grave threat to national security. Agent Mike Scioli of the U.S. Border Patrol confirms that the Tucson sector of the Border Patrol is facing a worsening problem with Mara Salvatrucha, a Salvadoran street gang that now controls the flow of arms, drugs, and illegal aliens into...
MS-13 Gang Member with Arabic tatoos (Police Photograph)
(NY Post) Emanuel(brother of White
House Chief of Staff) says medical
care should be reserved for the non-
disabled, not given to those "who are
irreversibly prevented from being or
becoming participating citizens . .
Health Care Reform: A Better Plan
(by Charles Krauthammer) In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Bill Bradley created a legislative miracle. They fashioned a tax reform that stripped loopholes, political favors, payoffs, patronage and other corruptions out of the tax system. With the resulting savings, they lowered tax rates across the board. Those reductions, combined with the elimination of the enormous inefficiencies and perverse...
UK to Michael Savage: Apologize for Your Views and We Might Lift Ban
(WND.com) The government in the United Kingdom has dispatched a letter to talk radio icon Michael Savage that he must "repudiate" the views the government has attributed to him before he even can be considered for removal from a banned-in-Britain government list. "Any such repudiation must be genuine and comprehensive"...
Derivatives Overhaul Seeks to Reduce Risk
(WSJ.com) The Obama administration
detailed a sweeping plan to more
closely oversee the giant market for
derivatives by forcing many of the
products to trade on regulated
exchanges or electronic venues.
Obama health-care plan destroys cheap health care options, raises taxes
(Examiner.com) In 2008, Obama
promised not to raise taxes on
anyone making less than $250,000 a
year. But he is now breaking that
promise by proposing to tax some
middle-class families to pay for...
Emanuel: Believes in withholding care from elderly for greater good.
