While the Senate Judiciary Committee asked questions this week of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, President Obama’s choice to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, the Supreme Court announced a ruling on an issue Democrats would prefer to avoid; the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. In McDonald v. Chicago, the Supreme Court of the United [...]
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Reciprocity initiative vote reveals problems going forward.
For the second time in the first six months of the Barack Obama administration, Republicans have lost a crucial vote in Congress resulting from an inability to hold the whole caucus in each chamber together. The cap and tax trade bill last month passed in the U.S. House of Representatives by a mere seven votes; had all House [...]
A Reaction to the Report Row
Both sides miss the point in the row over the recently-leaked DHS memo (available via a link here) regarding potential domestic security threats. The administration, in its sense of self-righteousness and view of American history, misses the faults in its assumptions about such threats. Conservatives meanwhile, in their own self-righteousness and certitude, miss key lessons from the history [...]