Guns Before the Court
Today the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case that
is likely to result in a landmark decision. In McDonald
v. Chicago, the Court will consider whether the individual
right to bear arms it recognized in District of Columbia v.
Heller can be enforced against State and local governments.
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Re: Obama Administration’s Seizing of the Economy
Hugh Hewitt on “the EPA’s “Congress-and-people-be-damned” declaration on the regulation of greenhouse gases” and with it, “the arrival of another power grab by the president’s appointees and the agencies they control” (emphasis mine):
The only solution to this and all the other power grabs –GM, the banks, Obamacare– will be a wholesale forced retirement of Democrats [...]
Re: The Democrats’ willingness to abandon the most vulnerable among us
Carol Brown at The American Thinker on a “sad story,” indeed:
As Senate Democrats hung together last week on a “test” vote on health care reform, their willingness to cut Medicare to fund their colossal plan revealed their willingness to abandon the most vulnerable among us - the frail and elderly. Many among the oldest of [...]
Mad About Free Trade
Daniel
Griswold is not shy about sharing the
high aspirations he harbors for his superlative new book
Mad About Trade: Why Main
Street America Should Embrace Globalization.
The Cato Institute scholar seeks nothing less than to marshal
whatever evidence necessary to induce Americans to fall [...]
Contra Richard Haass
In a Washington Post op-ed, Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that Afghanistan does not matter as much as General McChrystal and our military leaders think. Haass says Afghanistan is not a “war of necessity,” but a “war of choice.” His reasoning does not justify his conclusion.
Haass says there are [...]
Health Care: When "the Worst" Is Enemy of "Bad Enough"
Let’s see if we can follow the logic here. According to AP
One of the most widely accepted arguments against a government medical plan for the middle class is that it would quash competition — just what private insurers seem to be doing themselves in many parts of the U.S.
Several studies show that in lots [...]
