Democrats Want Biden To Consult with Congress Before Nuke Launch
More than 30 Democrats serving in the United States have written President Joe Biden asking him to consider expanding the number of people involved in the decision to launch a…
Trump’s Leadership Underrated
As the saying around Washington goes, “President Donald J. Trump frequently steps on his own message”. Nowhere is that observation more accurate than in the matter of his leadership during…
Emergencies Do Not Expand Constitutional Power
Fear is a powerful driver of public policy. Ordinarily, that is not greatly troubling. We have speed limits, food sanitation laws, and many other regulations based on rational fear of…
When agencies regulate in secret, none of us is safe
Imagine what it must feel like to have a government agent show up at your door, accuse you of violating some rule you’ve never heard of, and threaten you with…
The Danger of the Attacks on the Electoral College
Once upon a time, the Electoral College was not controversial. During the debates over ratifying the Constitution, Anti-Federalist opponents of ratification barely mentioned it. But by the mid-twentieth century, opponents…
Rural Americans would be serfs if we abolished the Electoral College
Should rural and small-town Americans be reduced to serfdom? The American Founders didn’t think so. This is one reason why they created checks and balances, including the Electoral College. Today…
After the Supreme Court Said Unions Can’t Force Non-Members to Pay Dues, Almost All of Them Stopped
By Eric Boehm • Reason Given the choice of no longer paying to support unions they didn’t want to join in the first place, lots of public sector workers took…
Technology and the Fourth Amendment
By John Yoo & James Phillips • National Review We now hold the equivalent of yesterday’s supercomputers in our pockets. Communications occur instantly, from encrypted messages to Twitter blasts that…
Blame Congress for Politicizing the Court
By Senator Ben Sasse (NE) • Wall Street Journal Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of hating women, hating children, hating clean air, wanting dirty water. He’s been declared an existential…
Was Gorsuch Worth A Trump Presidency? It’s Starting To Look That Way
By David Harsanyi • The Federalist It’s odd, isn’t it, that so many of the folks who warn us about the authoritarianism of the GOP also happen to support an…
Sorry, Liberals, But America Is Not A Democracy, And It’s Better That Way
By Clifford Humphrey • The Federalist It is no secret that the United States is a severely divided nation. In fact, division seems to be one thing that unites Americans…
President Obama’s Top Ten Constitutional Violations of 2015
by Ilya Shapiro • National Review As we approach the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency, there isn’t much that the president can do to change…
Political Lies: Executive Orders by Another Name
President Obama has issued a form of executive action known as the presidential memorandum more often than any other president in history — using it to take unilateral action even…
A glaring example of failed leadership
by Editorial Board • U-T San Diego There is not likely to be any comprehensive reform of this country’s broken immigration system during Obama’s remaining two years. There probably…
The Divine Right of Barack Obama
The president who began as a champion of the legislature’s prerogative to declare war has morphed into Napoleon. by Charles C. W. Cooke • National Review…