Stopping the Bureaucrats Requires an End to Chevron Deference
By Iain Murray • National Review Online Anyone who studies the power bureaucrats have over ordinary Americans’ lives swiftly comes to the realization that the courts, which…
Scalia Blasts Obamacare Ruling: ‘Words Have No Meaning’
They did it again. The Supreme Court of the United States effectively rewrote the text of Obamacare to save the legislation. By a 6-3 majority, the Court upheld the Fourth…
Sen. David Perdue: Obama Runs ‘Country Without Congress’
Abuse of executive powers threatens democracy by Adam Kredo • Washington Free Beacon President Barack Obama’s abuse of executive power privileges has essentially frozen Congress out…
Obama’s Executive Memoranda Highlights Constitutional Crisis
by Jonathan S. Tobin • Commentary When conservatives protested President Obama’s attempt to go around the Constitution and rule by executive orders rather than with the…
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…
No Justification for Executive Overreach
by Terry Eastland • The Weekly Standard With his aggressive executive action on immigration, President Obama has struck a constitutional nerve in the body politic. The…
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…
Constitutional and Political Freedom
Entrepreneurial & Regulatory Freedom
Fuel/Energy Freedom
Science and Public Policy
Constitutional chutzpah
by Seth Lipsky • New York Post There are three ways something can become what the US Constitution calls the “supreme law of the land.” It…
Feds: Obama Broke Law with Bergdahl Swap
by Chuck Vinch • Army Times The Defense Department broke the law when it transferred five Taliban detainees from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Qatar in exchange…
The CIA’s spying on the U.S. Senate
There must be accountability for the CIA’s snooping on senators by the Editorial Board, New York Daily News Long spook story simple and short: The CIA got caught spying on…
Jonathan Turley: Congress ‘Must Act’ Against Obama’s Overreach or Face ‘Self-Destruction’
by Brendan Bordelon Liberal law professor Jonathan Turley warned a panel of lawmakers that they “must act” in support of a lawsuit against President Barack Obama for executive overreach or face…
I,’ ‘Me,’ ‘My’—Obama Uses First Person Singular 199 Times in Speech Vowing Unilateral Action
by Terence P. Jeffrey Not counting instances when he quoted a letter from a citizen or cited dialogue from a movie, President Barack Obama used the first person singular–including the…
Stopping a Lawless President
by George F. Will What philosopher Harvey Mansfield calls “taming the prince” — making executive power compatible with democracy’s abhorrence of arbitrary power — has been a perennial problem of…
White House withholds thousands of documents from Senate CIA probe, despite vows of help
by Jonathan S. Landay, Ali Watkins and Marisa Taylor The White House has been withholding for five years more than 9,000 top-secret documents sought by the Senate Select Committee on…