By Bob Van Voris and Patricia Hurtado – May 16, 2012 9:01 PM PT Opponents of a U.S. law they claim may subject them to indefinite military detention for activities including news reporting and political activism persuaded a federal judge to temporarily block the measure. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan yesterday ruled in [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Sunday, May 6, 2012 WASHINGTON — Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions. For example, two academics recently wrote in the British Journal of Medical Ethics that “after-birth abortions” — killing newborn babies — are matters of moral indifference because newborns, [...]

April 29, 2012 By Herbert W. Titus and William J. Olson On April 25, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Arizona v. United States, involving the constitutionality of the State’s effort to combat illegal immigration.  In one sense, it was a rematch between former Solicitor General Paul Clement, arguing for Arizona, and [...]

By David Limbaugh (Archive) · Friday, April 27, 2012 Every day, we get a new kick in the gut from the Obama administration. Most recently, Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz was caught on video articulating his view of the agency’s role in enforcing its regulations. Aremendariz said: “It was kind of like [...]

By Jeff Jacoby (Archive) · Thursday, April 26, 2012 US Representative Jim McGovern, a Worcester Democrat, generated some unwanted controversy two years ago when he publicly declared: “The Constitution is wrong.” The context was a discussion of campaign finance during a debate between McGovern and his Republican challenger, Marty Lamb. “A lot of the campaign-finance [...]

If the Supreme Court upholds purchase mandates in health care, they will become a mainstay of federal regulation throughout the U.S. economy. Apr 23, 2012 WSJ By DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. And LEE A. CASEY Since the Supreme Court’s historic three-day ObamaCare hearings in late March, the president and his supporters have tried to pressure [...]

by: Terence P. JeffreyThursday, April 19, 2012 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday endorsed a movement announced by other congressional Democrats on Wednesday to ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow Congress to regulate political speech when it is engaged in by corporations as opposed to individuals. The First Amendment says [...]

Apr 18, 2012 Rocker and gun rights champion Ted Nugent says he will meet with the Secret Service on Thursday to explain his raucous remarks about what he called Barack Obama’s “evil, America-hating administration” _ comments some critics interpreted as a threat against the president. “The conclusion will be obvious that I threatened no one,” [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Thursday, April 19, 2012 WASHINGTON — Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is a courtly Virginian who combines a manner as soft as a Shenandoah breeze with a keen intellect. His disapproval of much current thinking about how the Constitution [...]

Apr 17, 2012 View at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_tryqenQQM&sns=em The First Amendment to the Constitution prohibits the government from infringing upon the freedom of speech, the freedom of association and the freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Speech is language and other forms of expression; and association and petition connote physical presence in reasonable [...]