One of the things that ought to offend every American who loves the Constitution is the alarming tendency of lowly district courts to issue nationwide injunctions. This is appalling. District courts by definition have legal authority in their districts and nowhere else. They may issue an injunction that they intend to apply to the entire […]
President Vladimir Putin has named Tax Service chief Mikhail Mishustin as Russia’s new prime minister, the Kremlin said Wednesday. The 53-year-old Mishustin has worked in the government since 1998 and kept a low profile while serving as the head of the Federal Tax Service since 2010. The Russian leader made the appointment after he engineered […]
May 20, 2010 “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgement to the very first radical: From all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the very first radical known to man, who rebelled against the establishment, and did it […]
Regressives cherish an utterly sophomoric myth, that the problem with modern society is guns. If we could just get rid of guns, they think, society would once again be peaceful and harmonious, and everyone would get along famously. But the problem in modern society is not guns, it is people. The left thinks that guns […]
One of the most pernicious distortions of the plain meaning of the Constitution is the conceit that U.S. citizenship automatically belongs to anyone born in America. It doesn’t. A correct interpretation and application of the 14th Amendment makes this clear. This amendment, ratified in 1868, was enacted for one simple purpose: to grant citizenship to […]
The biggest threat to the safety and security of the American people is not North Korea or Russia but Islam. As we saw on 9/11, when 19 Muslims hijacked planes and flew them into the Twin Towers, Islam carries a dark and dangerous energy that is determined to vanquish Christianity and extend its demonic rule […]
Nothing was quite so unimportant to the founders of this nation as the independence of the Department of Justice. If I close my eyes, I can almost see the determined set of James Madison’s jaw as he etches into the stone of our Constitution those memorable words which embodied what he called his passionate “regard […]
Bob Mueller has threatened President Trump and his legal team with a subpoena if he will not voluntarily submit to an interview. But a subpoena is constitutionally unenforceable against a sitting president. This is clear from the section of the Constitution which discusses impeachment. The power of impeachment to hold federal officials accountable in between […]
How often have you heard that assault rifles should be banned because they are not intended for hunting? Invariably, in the face of that argument some well-intentioned patriot will attempt to persuade us that such weapons are sometimes used to hunt. And that is true only in the sense that one might attempt to eat […]
Critics from both left and right are all over Jeff Sessions for his decision to revoke an Obama-era executive order on marijuana. It ordered the Department of Justice to turn a blind eye to pot production, transportation, and sales in states that have legalized recreational use of weed. There are several important issues involved here. […]