Jan LaRue: Twisted and Nuts
Listening to government leaders and media avoid any connection between Islamist terrorism and the murderous attack at Ft. Hood is, to use their terminology, about as "twisted" and "nuts" as it gets.
Ken Klukowski: Court Should Uphold Life Without Parole for Minors
On Nov. 9, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases on whether it violates the Eighth Amendment for a minor (under age 18) to be sentenced to life in prison without parole where there's no homicide involved. The answer to that question should be "no," but it's not clear which way the Court will go.
ACLU Defends Identity Theft by Illegals
The Colorado Supreme Court is currently considering whether to vacate a trial court injunction which stopped the state from prosecuting up to 1,300 identity theft cases by illegal aliens. The ACLU brought the challenge not because the charges are false but because, it says, the warrant to obtain the evidence was unconstitutional.
The facts for this article, but not the legal conclusions, come from an article in the Dallas Morning News on 5 November, 2009. It concerns an appeal to the Colorado Supreme Court from injunctions obtained by the ACLU against prosecution of certain identity theft cases.
The cases began when a local resident found […]
Ken Klukowski: Defending Chief Justice Roberts
In recent months, at least three major newspapers have carried columns attempting to push Chief Justice John Roberts into voting to uphold a grossly unconstitutional federal law. But their cheap distortions and Chicken Little yammering will fail. The chief justice will do his job, and the country will be better off for it.
ACLU Supports Smutty Photos of Teenagers as "Free Speech"
The ACLU has filed suit in Indiana to support the “freedom of speech” of two high school students who posted their photographs on Facebook, wearing lingerie and holding phallic objects. What the ACLU deliberately missed in filing suit is that the girls were not disciplined as students, but only as voluntary participants in a sports team.
An article in the Atlanta Examiner.Com on 2 November, 2009, updates a story about an ACLU lawsuit against a school district in Churubusco, Indiana, concerning racy photographs posted on the Internet by two teenagers in a local high school. The girls were on a sports team at the school. At […]
Robert Knight: ObamaCare's Scary October Surprise
Stung by a rising tide of resistance and a closing window of opportunity, House Democrats have unleashed a new version of ObamaCare, weighing in at 1,990 pages and with a $1 trillion price tag. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promises to ram it through quickly, exhibiting a disdain for her countrymen that makes Marie Antoinette look like a populist.
Ken Klukowski: An Open Letter to Nancy Pelosi and Robert Gibbs
Dear Speaker Pelosi and Mr. Gibbs: On Oct. 20, Politico published my column in which I explained how the individual mandate in the health care bill is unconstitutional, since there is no constitutional provision authorizing such legislation and it falls outside the scope of the Constitution's Commerce Clause.
Robert Knight: Dearborn Shoot-Out Opens a Window into Homegrown Terror
Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was the Imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, died in a shoot-out on Oct. 28 after firing on FBI agents during a raid in Dearborn, Michigan. Another seven Muslims were apprehended, and various weapons seized.
Ken Klukowski: Obamacare Still Unconstitutional
My Oct. 20 column in POLITICO ("Making Individuals Buy Insurance Is Unconstitutional") explained why Obamacare's individual mandate is unconstitutional. Erwin Chemerinsky then wrote a rebuttal Oct. 23 ("Health Care Reform Is Constitutional"), claiming to explain how I was wrong.
Robert Knight: How to Encourage Failure
If your company was in a financial fix, would you (a) try to attract top talent or (b) cut salaries so low that top talent wouldn't return your calls?