Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Much has been made of Obama’s statement that the gun rights crowd should stop worrying, because Obama contends that he is “constrained” by the system the Founders put in place. If you don’t read his actual words with great care, it sounds as if he’s saying he’s contractually constrained —
Continue readingEvery day, I am more impressed with Ted Cruz. He’s smart, he’s courageous, he’s knowledgeable, and he’s deeply loyal to the Constitution. I understand that he went to Harvard Law School, rather than my alma mater, The University of Texas School of Law in Austin, but I can forgive him
Continue readingFellow Weasel Watcher Greg, at Rhymes with Right, came up with a good poster likening every woman’s right to have a gun to a black woman’s right to sit anywhere she wants in the bus. That poster, combined with a discussion I had with some young ‘uns about the Bill
Continue readingMichael Ramirez pithily sums up all the deliberate or accidental hazards in American life that exceed the risks of rifle (“automatic” or otherwise) violence: As you can see, cars are infinitely more deadly to Americans than are the rifles that are getting Progressives so excited. Those who wish to control
Continue readingMy fellow Watcher’s Council member, Greg, who blogs at Rhymes with Right, has put together the ultimate smack-down for those (especially those journalists) who argue that the Second Amendment extends only to muskets and other weapons in use when Congress enacted the Bill of Rights: Carrying this irrefutable logic over
Continue readingYears ago, during the Bush administration, Terry Gross, of NPR’s Fresh Air, interviewed a writer who was in an absolutely tizzy about Bush’s use of executive orders. Sadly, for the life of me, I can’t find that interview. What I also can’t find is any evidence that this author has
Continue readingToday’s question: Can President Obama use an executive order to override the Constitution? Today’s answer, courtesy of Matt Drudge is “yes, he can, but it won’t be pretty.” (Click on image to enlarge.)
Continue readingNational Review Online is running hot today, because it’s got two great articles on gun control, both of which clearly express what I was trying to tell those Marin-ites around me who are absolutely certain that (a) gun control saves lives and (b) the Second Amendment is stupid or misunderstood.
Continue readingWayne LaPierre, the NRA’s executive VP, says that our violent culture is to blame for gun violence and that, as long as the culture is what it is, school children should have police protection. Despite the fact that the majority of Americans agree with him, the drive-by media is excoriating
Continue readingIn 1973, the United States Supreme Court created a federal right to abortion by finding that abortion falls into an unstated Constitutional dimension called “the right to privacy.” (Note: British and American common law has always recognized a right to privacy, but the Constitution makes no mention of it.) Thus,
Continue readingWith a birthday that falls very close to July 4, I’ve always been quite proprietorial about this holiday. One small part of my brain, while watching fireworks, always thinks “For me? Why thank you!” Fortunately, that’s only a smart part of my brain at work. The bigger part of my
Continue readingOne of my favorite blogfriends sent me a link to John Yoo’s article excoriating Justice Robert’s decision in the harshest terms. Yoo states plainly that the decision spells the end of individualism in America, since it expands the government’s taxing power to encompass everything. Those who seek a silver lining
Continue readingMany people are asserting that, in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, the end is near. I see that in op-eds, in blog posts, and in my email box. America’s constitutional experiment is over, they say. They might be right. Or not. But here’s the deal: if we give
Continue reading[UPDATE: Since I wrote this post, there is now reason to believe that Roberts issued his opinion for the wrong reasons, not the right ones. If I were to rewrite this post today, I would be less charitable to the man. Nevertheless, putting aside Roberts’ motives, I stand by the
Continue readingDon Quixote and I were talking today about the Commerce Clause. We weren’t saying anything original. We were simply wondering whether the Supreme Court, in ruling on ObamaCare, will address the vast reach of the Commerce Clause and whether it will (a) reaffirm that reach; (b) reverse that reach entirely
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