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Relevance: 24% Posted on: September 4, 2001
Do term limits help? I mean, do they really, really help our political leaders behave in a more responsible manner? Well, my goodness they would have to, at least insofar as they show the door to the most corrupt careerists and make way for new people, more idealistic people. If…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: November 9, 2022
The GOP has just issued a 1,000-page report about corruption in the Department of Justice and its Federal Bureau of Investigation. Based largely on the disclosures of 14 whistleblowers, plus what’s in plain sight — what we’ve all been able to see for ourselves over the last several years —…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: March 24, 2017
This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. Talk about a silly rite. Senators repeatedly fired questions about specific legal views that no High Court nominee ever answers. Why not? Because to answer would be to pre-judge possible future cases.…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: April 30, 2001
Now and then I must admit that the career politicians don't produce bad laws based on bad thinking and venal motives all by themselves. They have help. Some of their enablers are in the media. If all you knew about global warming was what you read in Time magazine, you…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: July 4, 2012
With the Supreme Court’s decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, Obamacare has achieved its first milestone: The repudiation of logic, the Orwellian assertion that A both is and is not A. The massive healthcare package, officially titled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, requires that individuals buy medical insurance. The law imposes…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: July 22, 2020
“He was stuffed into what may have been a rental van operated by unmarked federal agents,” explained Cato Institute’s Patrick Eddington, “and taken to the federal courthouse, where he was interrogated without counsel. He wisely refused to answer questions and was then subsequently released without any kind of charges being…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: May 15, 2008
Cato Institute has announced the recipient of the 2008 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty. The $500,000 prize is awarded every other year “to an individual who has made a significant contribution to advance human freedom.” This year’s winner is a 23-year-old Venezuelan law student named Yon Goicoechea. Yon leads…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: April 9, 2009
In Portland, Oregon, the difference between Constitutional takings and just plain theft by government can be seen in bright neon. The “Made In Oregon” sign on what used to be called the Bickel Building, on Burnside Street, is something of a landmark. It’s huge. It used to say “White Stag…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: April 10, 2000
Our Constitution begins with the words "We the People." Was that just a typo? I ask because David Broder, the Washington Post reporter, has written a book attacking the right of voters to enact laws directly through the initiative process. Broder argues that the process destroys representative government, has no…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: August 9, 1999
My wife and I are expecting a new baby. Needless to say, we're excited. But just the other day we got some bad news: our unborn child is already very deeply in debt. According to recent estimates, a child born this year will have to pay $100,000 in federal taxes…