COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Liberty Is Not for Wimps
The bottom line is that it takes a bold person to be for personal liberty, because you have to be able to cope with people saying things and engaging in voluntary acts that you deem offensive.
‘No Conclusive Evidence of Wrongdoing’
Spooks, leaks and the media’s selective memory.
Federal Court Blocks Trump Admin’s Immigration Executive Order
A second federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s new executive order (EO) on immigration travel, while the federal judge who blocked the first EO is reserving judgment on the revised EO.
The ACLU's Radical Roots
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) purports to uphold First Amendment freedoms for all Americans, but its seminal doctrines and selective choice of cases reveal something else altogether.
Sitting on Their Hands
The first Republican president in eight years, who enjoys a GOP-controlled Congress which George W. Bush lost, provided an optimistic blueprint for governing.
Top Legal Experts Analyze Gorsuch Judicial Record
National legal experts analyzed Judge Neil Gorsuch’s judicial record at a Heritage Foundation forum on Wednesday, predicting a conservative intellectual to succeed Justice Antonin Scalia.
Courts Must Dismiss All Current Immigration Executive Order Lawsuits
If any federal court refuses to dismiss a lawsuit based on the old executive order, then that may be the first issue on this controversy to reach the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Throws Out Transgender Case
On Monday the Supreme Court threw out a major transgender lawsuit, sending the case back to a lower federal court in light of the Trump administration’s rescinding of an Obama policy implicated by the lawsuit.
Florida Judge Rules Another Trump Immigration Order Unconstitutional
A county judge in Florida has ruled unconstitutional on Tenth Amendment grounds another of President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration, this one concerning federal funding for sanctuary cities.
President Trump Must Make Sure Foreign Governments Play by the Rules
In his first ever address to a joint-session of Congress, President Donald Trump took a firm stand on the side of the American people.
Graham’s 2020 Tax Law for POTUS Candidates Unconstitutional
Several Supreme Court cases involving Congress buttress the idea that Graham’s idea would not pass constitutional muster.
Klukowski: Sessions Recusal an Act of Statesmanship
Democrats’ overcaffeinated cries over Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ statements on Russian contacts is an attempt to obfuscate the plain truth.
Why the Democrats Sit on Their Hands
President Donald Trump has spoken to Congress and the nation. He provided Americans with a positive vision and offered realistic solutions, with an overriding theme to bring people together to make America great again.
Resisting Civility
The Democratic Party and ‘progressives’ of all types are mounting the dangerous ‘resistance’.
Undermining Academic Achievement
Many black politicians and educators would never have their own children attend the rotten, dangerous schools that are so much a part of our big cities. Many black parents, captured by these schools, would like to get their children out.
Antonin Scalia’s Widow Attends Trump’s National Address Before Congress
Maureen Scalia, the widow of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, attended President Donald Trump’s national address before a joint session of Congress Tuesday night as the president and first lady’s guest.
Ted Cruz at CPAC Creates Buzz of Next SCOTUS Pick
Many CPAC-goers are wondering if Cruz might be President Trump’s next pick for the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Hears Case on Fatal Border Shooting
How a U.S. Border Patrol argent’s use of lethal force at the U.S-Mexican border implicates constitutional rights and foreign affairs dominated arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in Hernandez v. Mesa.
There's Nothing Free
Here's a question for those of us who support trade restrictions in the name of saving jobs: In whose pockets did most of the $1.1 billion that Americans paid in higher prices go?
Supreme Court Begins First Sitting of Trump Presidency
Between new lawyers leading OSG and new justices joining the nation’s highest court, February 2017 marks the beginning of a new trend in the legal arguments and decisions at the Supreme Court.