The School-Board/DOJ scandal
It’s time to recap what we know about the School-Board/DOJ scandal: The White House Domestic Policy Council formulated a plan to solicit a letter from an outside group that is “not the usual suspects”...
View ArticleThere is no substitute for free speech
I saw this article this morning: A judge ruled yesterday that the Federal Election Commission could go ahead with a sharply limited investigation of the Reader’s Digest for distributing videotapes...
View ArticleIran deal is illegal
Interesting: Some senior U.S. officials involved in the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal have privately concluded that a key sanctions relief provision – a concession to Iran that will open the...
View ArticleOf course they did
The IRS has been using the donor lists that they (illegally) demanded from conservative organizations applying for non-profit status, to identify people to audit. This is what Obama describes as “not...
View ArticleBelieve nothing this woman says, ever
Despite reports to the contrary, Hillary Clinton is adamant that she never sent classified information over her illegal private server: “I am confident I never sent nor received any information that...
View ArticleHappy Birthday
The lawyers for a class-action suit against Warner/Chappell Music claiming that the famous song “Happy Birthday” is actually in the public domain appear to have found the proverbial smoking gun. The...
View ArticleHillary Clinton lies over and over and over again
Literally nothing Hillary Clinton has said about her use of an external email account has turned out to be true: She said that she just wanted to have everything on one device. (As if you can’t have...
View ArticleMichigan v. EPA
The Supreme Court ruled against the EPA today, finding that the EPA must take cost into account when deciding whether to regulate power plants. But don’t be too excited. (Or, if you favor regulating...
View ArticleBypass the Supreme Court?
So, I saw this cross my Twitter feed: This gives the impression that Texas is preparing to ignore the Supreme Court ruling. That would be surprising, and in fact, the actual facts are a bit different:...
View ArticleACLU, you are dead to me
For some time, the ACLU has been lukewarm at best toward religious freedom, but now they have officially come out against it: The ACLU supported the RFRA’s passage at the time because it didn’t believe...
View ArticleCourt rules against IRS in targeting case
Remember the IRS scandal? It faded from the headlines, but it never ended, as the IRS never actually changed its behavior. One of the organizations that the IRS has been discriminating against is Z...
View ArticleThe same-sex marriage decision
As a libertarian, I’ve long felt that people should be able to form whatever partnerships they want to form, without interference from the government. However, as a constitutionalist, I’ve long felt...
View ArticleContempt of court
First, Obama decided to ignore the law and admit illegal immigrants by executive order. Second, when a federal judge was examining the order, the Obama administration lied to the judge: At issue is...
View ArticlePrivacy protects anti-privacy
Last week, the IRS admitted that it shared taxpayers’ private information with the White House. The degree to which it did so isn’t known (by us), but it was to the tune of thousands of documents, so...
View ArticleA new IRS scandal
The Obama administration has admitted in court filings that the IRS shared taxpayers’ information with the White House, to the tune of 2500 documents. A court earlier shot down the administration’s...
View ArticleMaryland buys environmentalist sermons
The Washington Post reports: The news was as welcome to the group of Prince George’s County pastors as a plague of locusts: Maryland’s controversial “stormwater remediation fee” applied to all property...
View ArticleDOJ admits lying to appeals court
Ars Technica reports: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a remarkable letter (PDF) this morning in which the Department of Justice admits its lawyer misled a panel of judges during oral...
View Article“Naked power grab”
That’s how NYT op-ed writer Linda Greenhouse describes the outrage of the Supreme Court granting review of a lower court ruling: This is a naked power grab by conservative justices who two years ago...
View ArticleDon’t you dare return a not guilty verdict
The latest incident in the Obama administration’s war on due process: In a federal probe of Princeton University, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights faulted the Ivy League university...
View ArticleGood news, bad news
The good news is the Washington Supreme Court has upheld the Constitutional principle of the presumption of innocence in rape cases. The bad news is it wasn’t unanimous. Three of nine justices were...
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