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Relevance: 20% Posted on: May 25, 2011
Is American life now best described by the plot of a Nathanael West novel? Maybe. In West’s A Cool Million, the young hero meets calamity after calamity, often at the hands of America’s authorities. I stopped after a prison official had all the hero’s teeth ripped out to “prevent infection.”…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: January 31, 2013
A recent court decision has slowed—dare we hope, stopped?—the erosion of an important check on executive power. This is the constitutional provision that the president’s appointment of certain high officials be subject to Senate approval. Trevor Burrus of the Cato Institute reminds us that presidents have sought to circumvent the…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: March 19, 2019
“What if there were five justices selected by Democrats,” presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke explored at an Iowa campaign stop, “five justices selected by Republicans, and those ten then pick five more justices independent of those who picked the first ten?” Beto, meet FDR. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried something similar…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: March 21, 2012
Last Friday, the President of the United States signed an Executive Order on “National Defense Resources Preparedness,” and it’s gotten no small amount of attention. It seems to commandeer the entire economy — pretty much anything the government needs — in cases of a presidentially (not congressionally) declared “emergency.” The…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: September 18, 2012
What have the rich got that we haven’t got? Besides money? Well, many assaults on their money. Less cash-encumbered mortals also get our pockets picked by those with political pull. But persons of certain envious bent are particularly eager to assail the wealthiest among us. (You know who you are,…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: May 7, 2020
“Women should be believed.” That’s what Joe Biden said when Justice Brett Kavanaugh faced allegations of sexual assault during his 2018 Supreme Court confirmation process. While former Vice President and presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Biden is still for “taking the woman’s claims seriously,” now that he’s been accused, he…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: April 23, 2014
Those sworn to represent us in government often represent themselves, instead. And sometimes these same self-actualizing politicians find that our constitutional rights merely get in the way of their political desires. Years ago, then House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Missouri) proposed substantial re-writing of the First Amendment, arguing: “What we…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: February 24, 2015
The past offers us many lessons. And cause for alarm. And inspiration, too. Seventy-two years ago today, three young Germans — 21-year-old Sophie Scholl, her older brother by three years, Hans, and their friend 24-year-old Christoph Probst — were put to death by the Nazis. They were decapitated — guillotined —…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: October 8, 2017
The mainstream media and political insiders have discovered The Awful Truth about legislative term limits. Click on over to Townhall for the whole astonishing story! Then come back here for the background: Detroit News: Mass turnover fuels push for Mich. term limit reform U.S. Term Limits Ballotpedia: State Legislative Election…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: June 10, 2022
Decades of wrongheaded policies have eroded San Francisco’s once much-vaunted charm. These policies include onerous burdens on building construction; lax attitudes toward homeless folks’ tent cities and public excretory practices; and a green light for sundry criminal activities, including broad-daylight theft. The green light flashed statewide in 2014, when Californians…