Innocent until proven guilty? Think again. ======== An administration task force ignores the rights of the accused. By MATT KAISER And JUSTIN DILLON May 5, 2014 6:56 p.m. ET In January, President Obama convened a White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault and charged it with creating a set of recommendations commensurate with its title. Last Tuesday the task... Read more
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The White House Flunks a Test on Sexual Assault
May 18 | Posted by mrossol | The Left, US ConstitutionThe Investors at War With Political Power
May 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, US ConstitutionRather long, but folks – we need to start paying attention to “the government of ours’ which ‘managers’ of which are more and more thinking they can do as they wish. =========== How a once-obscure federal agency targeted two brothers, and what happened when they decided to fight back in the age of Obama. By JOSEPH RAGO CONNECT May 2, 2014 6:45 p.m.... Read more
Standing to Sue
May 5 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, US Constitution, US CourtsIf this issue is not addressed and “we” continue to allow the executive branch to abdicate its accountability to enforce the laws of the land, I fear we will come to regret it. ====== The legal left and media are always last to know, but there are the makings of a correction in how the courts police conflicts between the political branches.... Read more
Is ObamaCare a Law?
April 2 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCare, US ConstitutionLiberals keep dismissing challenges to ObamaCare, political and legal, so it’s no surprise they mostly ignored last week’s oral argument at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that could send another case to the Supreme Court. Coming in the week the White House wheeled out its 38th rewrite of the law, Halbig v. Sebelius is even more important for the... Read more
Freedom of Speech Wins
April 2 | Posted by mrossol | US ConstitutionFrom Chief Justice John Roberts’s majority opinion in the Supreme Court’s April 2 decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission eliminating caps on the total amount of money that individuals can donate in a single election season: There is no right more basic in our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders. Citizens can exercise that right... Read more
Obama’s Political Surveillance
January 23 | Posted by mrossol | NSA, US ConstitutionHe proposes to change antiterror programs that he admits are necessary and haven’t been abused. ===== President Obama finally joined the surveillance debate on Friday with a conflicted address, and perhaps it would have been better had he stayed out. His new antiterror proposals will do little to secure American privacy but they might make the country less safe. Rhetorically Mr. Obama tried... Read more
