Daily Archives: June 29, 2011

This is one of the highlights of the aptly named website, Kim Jong-Il Looking At Things. Think the North Korean dictator ever has pondered the wondrous market forces that placed that pencil in his hand?  

In a split 2-1 decision, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld ObamaCare’s individual mandate, using Wickard v. Filburn to buttress its decision. Why is this significant? The Filburn case is one of the worst decisions the U.S. Supreme Court ever handed down. We’ve discussed it in this forum in the past. There’sContinue Reading

Stephen Hayes‘ latest contribution to The Weekly Standard explores the military’s response to President Obama’s plans for removing troops from Afghanistan in time for the 2012 election: Lieutenant General John Allen told the Senate Armed Services Committee [Tuesday] that the Afghanistan decision President Obama announced last week was not among the range of options theContinue Reading

John Stossel‘s latest column posted at Human Events explores the growing number of people identifying themselves as political independents. “Independents are everywhere, and they’re becoming the largest single voting bloc in the country,” Reason magazine Editor Matt Welch says. ” (T)hey can determine every national election and every … election for state office. So independentContinue Reading

We watched or listened to much of the president’s press conference so you didn’t have to. Quick takeaways: The president doesn’t like Harry Reid. Or Nancy Pelosi. Or himself, for that matter. He highlighted a tax break for owners of corporate jets as a revenue-reducer that makes no sense. Turns out that the tax breakContinue Reading

Former New York District Attorney — sorry, U.S. Sen. — Fred Thompson offers National Review Online readers some thoughts about the concept of solving the nation’s budget and debt problems by “taxing the rich.” Let’s get off the defensive with regard to this “fairness” argument and meet it head on. We’ve got the better argumentContinue Reading

Michael Barone‘s latest Washington Examiner article explores U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s approach to the Walmart sex discrimination lawsuit. The high court’s majority rejected the suit, but Ginsburg’s dissent troubles Barone. There was no disagreement that Walmart’s management practices are “a system of delegated discretion.” Walmart store managers, as Justice Antonin Scalia explainedContinue Reading

Should we have been surprised that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the matching-funds provision in Arizona’s taxpayer-funded election campaign scheme? A provision mirroring the matching-funds provision in North Carolina’s law? Not if we listened one year ago to Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard professor who warned Carolina Journal Radio listeners “the Supreme Court is goingContinue Reading