Recently my wife talked me into watching a little movie entitled “Extraordinary Measures,” staring Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford. The film had “made for TV” written all over, although the story is engaging and the lessons learned, significant. Fraser stars as a desperate father with two seriously ill children fighting for their lives. Ford plays a [...]
The Obama administration’s imagination as to what the government should be doing is without limits. Obama, and those who surround him, seem to honestly believe that the government is the solution to most (if not all) problems. Over the last two years the government has taken over insurance companies, financial institutions, and even auto companies, [...]
By Robert Barnes Washington Post Staff Writer The Supreme Court ruled for the first time Monday that the Second Amendment provides all Americans a fundamental right to bear arms, a long-sought victory for gun rights advocates who have chafed at federal, state and local efforts to restrict gun ownership. The court was considering a restrictive [...]
I’ve been a committed conservative and, with the exception of one year where I listed myself as an independent, a registered Republican since 1978. What makes that rather unremarkable statement more intriguing is that I’m an American who happens to be black. Anyone who follows politics knows that puts me in rare and sometimes lonely [...]
By Kevin McCullough While defending his own policies President Obama has routinely been rude and sarcastic to his predecessor, George W. Bush. Yet Obama appears to be making the resident of the previous White House look like a genius compared to his own serious missteps in office. Case in point – Interior Secretary Ken [...]
I feel like a broken record, but the Constitution is explicit about what the federal government can and cannot do. Article I of that document lists seventeen powers that the federal government can do. The Tenth Amendment was designed to dismiss any notion that the federal government had broad powers beyond those laid out in [...]
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — One week before Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan begins her Senate confirmation hearings, both liberal and conservative groups are criticizing her record on abortion rights. The anti-abortion group Americans United for Life, which calls Kagan a pro-abortion activist, recruited failed conservative Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork for [...]
From the New York Times: WASHINGTON — In a case pitting free speech against national security, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld a federal law that makes it a crime to provide “material support” to foreign terrorist organizations, even if the help takes the form of training for peacefully resolving conflicts. Chief Justice John G. [...]
I remember the liberal, and even Marxist, teachers and professors I had growing up who talked about how wonderful it was that Russia had “zero unemployment.” “Zero unemployment,” I thought, “that’s amazing!” Little did I know then that the jobs many Soviets were doing was digging holes and refilling them, all at taxpayer expense. This [...]
I remember when I first realized the federal government under President Obama had crossed the Rubicon. It was the weekend of March 28-29, 2009, and the news was starting to trickle out that the White House forced the chairman of General Motors, G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. to step down after nine years in the role [...]
