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Jan 21, 2012 09:18 PM
 ObamaCare’s expansion of Medicaid unconstitutionally violates the Coercion Doctrine under the Tenth Amendment thereby transgressing state sovereignty and violating the Constitutional framework of federalism. ObamaCare, therefore, simply cannot stand without bringing the entire edifice of federalism down around it.
Jan 20, 2012 01:57 PM
 REPRISE -- In National League of Cities v. Usery (1976), the U.S. Supreme Court found that the Tenth Amendment requires the existence of a set of essential state powers that remains beyond the reach of congressional regulation or preemption. The Court reversed itself in Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985), holding that the Tenth Amendment provides the Court no basis on which to limit the Congress in the exercise of its commerce powers. Although contradictory, both holdings can be inferred validly from the U.S. Constitution. This absurd result reveals profound inconsistencies in the constitutional design of federalism, requiring a constitutional solution. The article concludes with a discussion of a variety of constitutional remedies, including constitutional amendments.
Jan 15, 2012 04:50 PM
 To paraphrase Justice Potter Stewart in Jacobellis v. Ohio, the Court doesn’t need to draw precisely the outer bounds of federal power to know that ObamaCare exceeds them. The Court can know an act of legislative obscenity when it sees one—especially when it’s a lurid display of crude federal power that produces a contradiction at the heart of our political system. ObamaCare exceeds the bounds of constitutional decency and therefore cannot stand.
Jan 07, 2012 05:31 PM
 E-Verify is government over-reach at its worst. It is an arrogant exercise of power without having to assume responsibility or accountability for implementing the law. It constitutes impressing private citizens into the federal police apparatus and imposing a hidden tax on businesses. It is no less than federal conscription, dragooning private businesses into becoming the enforcers of federal government policy. It is another manifestation of the federal government’s growing proclivity to expand its routine use of force and violence while outsourcing their implementation (from mercenaries in Iraq and Afghanistan to rendition to foreign countries). It is an affront to the Constitution and an assault on the rights of individuals.
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Jan 24, 2012 04:31 PM
The sometimes euphoric commentary about SOPA, and concerning the allegedly significant "victory" of the legislation being set aside for now is wildly out of touch with the realities of State power -- and with the nature of the State itself. The essence of the State is domination, oppression, brutalization and exploitation. We appear to possess some small remaining slivers of liberty only because the State has not chosen to utilize and consistently apply the powers it already has -- at least, not yet.
Jan 24, 2012 07:28 AM
Staunch advocates of private property might be expected to support “intellectual property rights”—patents and copyrights—but these days that expectation is more than likely to be wrong. IP has come in for a thrashing from libertarians, among others, in the last few years, and it may be all over but the funeral.
Jan 23, 2012 08:17 AM
Bush and Cheney’s cronies in big business helped walk us right into the blast furnace of financial meltdown. Then they rushed to save the banks with taxpayer money. Now, it’s startling the number of high-ranking Obama officials who also have spun through the revolving door between the White House and the sacred halls of investment banking. President Obama may call them "fat cats" and stir the rabble against them with populist rhetoric when it serves his purpose, but after the fiscal fiasco, he allowed the culprits to escape virtually scot-free. And when he’s here in New York, he dines with them frequently and eagerly accepts their big contributions.
Jan 22, 2012 11:08 AM
 New Hampshire looking to ban state employees who work with the public from wearing perfume. Of course, body odor is fairly offensive to the senses as well. Don’t we deserve protection from that? Clearly the proper balance here is for the federal government to require regular showers and the application of deodorant, but ban all but the unscented varieties. All of this would be proper under the authority of the Commerce Clause, of course.
Jan 20, 2012 11:51 AM
 "Economists everywhere agree" gold standard is bad idea. Fiat currency can be inflated at whim - such as the greenback during the “Civil War” or the Federal Reserve note when losing its silver/gold backing in the late 60’s. Meanwhile, the value of gold is incredibly stable relative to other commodities. Which one is the bad idea again?
Jan 19, 2012 09:59 AM
 Prior to the American Revolution, eminent British jurist William Blackstone described Parliament as possessing “sovereign and uncontrollable authority in making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws.” The American revolutionaries rejected the idea that a legislature, or any other branch of government, could possess ultimate power. In June 1776, the Virginia Declaration of Rights averred, “all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the People; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.”
Jan 17, 2012 07:42 AM
 As the Praetorian Class (military, police, prosecutors, judges and other various "security" and "justice" personnel) ascends, the clear, albeit unstated, message that emerges is that actions and events of regular citizens only occur with its tacit consent. Whether driving on roads, traveling in the air, visiting public land, walking down the street or even living in your own home, every action you take is predicated on permission of the Praetorians. By preconditioning the populace to enforcement of its edicts, most of which are completely arbitrary, the Praetorian Class sets itself up for a high degree of autonomy in its actions--a state within a state. This is confirmed by the fact that consequences for malfeasance within the Praetorian Class are almost never observed, and when it happens, it typically becomes a grotesque spectacle in which one of their own is sacrificed as an example, so as to keep appearances of effective internal controls.
Jan 16, 2012 10:27 AM
 One of the few virtues of the federal government has been its inefficiency. With functions spread out across different agencies and duplicated powers and responsibilities, it has often proved unable to harm the economy as much as it could owing to power games and competition among agencies. Now the president wants to change all that. He wants a ruthlessly efficient government to intrude in all aspects of our lives without internal checks and balances.
Jan 13, 2012 09:51 AM
 VIDEO: Faking It -- How the media serves the war machine and manipulates the world into war.
Jan 13, 2012 09:17 AM
 BOOK REVIEW: Richard Betts’s new book, "American Force: Dangers, Delusions and Dilemmas in National Security," is an indictment of many of his fellow members of the national-security policy-making elite—for their failure to adapt to a changing world, their inadequate analysis of costs and benefits, and their generally sloppy thinking about several security-related concepts on which Betts gives us instruction. He pins blame for misdirections in U.S. security policy over the past two decades squarely on this elite rather than on larger streams of public opinion.
Jan 13, 2012 08:54 AM
 Three reasons U.S. Establishment wants to go to war with Iran: 1) US government is committed to using its superior military and economic position to achieve world hegemony. 2) Israel’s desire to eliminate all support for the Palestinians and for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. 3) To deter or slow China’s rise as a military and economic power by controlling China’s access to energy.
Jan 10, 2012 01:49 PM
 The American criminal "justice" system has been implemented with malice aforethought. When one-third of the US population has a criminal record, the system is not merely broken, it has approached the stage of terminal authoritarianism, even totalitarianism. It survives only because of ignorance, fear ... and money. The legal profession in the United States is a professional cartel where legislating lawyers and regulators produce thousands of new enforceable laws and regulations every year; judges, prosecutors, and private sector counsel lock arms to ensure that legal invoices, (which total almost 10 per cent of GDP – almost $1.4 trillion annually), are paid as a priority surpassed only by the claims of government. Prosecutors in the US justice system receive extraordinary protection and are rarely if ever exposed to the consequences of their unethical and illegal actions that ruin lives of the "guilty" and their families alike.
Jan 10, 2012 01:06 PM
 Is there a link between cancer and the polio vaccine? There is a good chance that there is, according to a Baylor University study released on February 18, 1999 and published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. At the time, the announcement sent shockwaves throughout the medical establishment and caused a great deal of public alarm. After all, who hasn't had at least one polio shot?
Jan 09, 2012 07:37 AM
 Ahead of the Republican primary Tuesday, there’s no sign that the populist conservative movement is poised to shape the presidential results in the “Live Free or Die” state — or anywhere else, for that matter.
Jan 07, 2012 12:41 PM
 If we are going to keep committed, experienced physicians from retiring early or taking another job where they stop practicing medicine, we must free doctors from oppressive price controls and expensive regulations that are choking their practices.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Retired lieutenant colonel's take on the military-industrial complex: As a country, we seem to have a teenager’s fascination with military hardware, an addiction that’s driving us to bust our own national budgetary allowance. At the same time, we sell weapons the way teenage punks sell fireworks to younger kids: for profit and with little regard for how they might be used.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
After largest tax increase in Illinois' history, the state still can't pay its bills. Only solution is to cut government spending says state comptroller.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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Monday, January 16, 2012
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Monday, January 9, 2012
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Friday, January 13, 2012
President Obama is leading the pack in donations from the defense industry: according to the Center for Responsive Politics, he’d taken in almost $112,000 from defense industry donors through December 2011, twice as much as Mitt Romney, the leading Republican recipient of defense-industry campaign contributions.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Jail inmate dies after deputies directly sprayed him and fogged his cell with pepper spray at least 8 times. Deputies then put him into a restraining chair, a controversial device that binds inmates at both wrists, both ankles, and across the chest, and then sprayed him at least two more times after he had been strapped to the chair. He was also stripped naked, and outfitted with a "spit mask," a hood designed to prevent inmates from spitting on jail personnel, which kept the pepper spray in close proximity to his nose and mouth, ensuring he would continue to inhale it for the full six hours he was in the restraint chair.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
A young Iranian nuclear scientist was killed by a magnetic bomb placed on his car by a motorcyclist in Tehran Wednesday. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, is the fourth scientist linked to Iran's nuclear program killed in the past two years, which Iran blames on the U.S. and Israel. Both countries officially deny the accusations.
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
The Department of Homeland Security announced the National Operations Center and its Office of Operations Coordination and Planning can collect personal information on news anchors, journalists, reporters or anyone who may use “traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.”
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Monday, January 9, 2012
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, run neck-and-neck with President Obama in a general-election matchup, according to a new CBS News poll released late on Monday that shows the two front-runners in Tuesday's New Hampshire GOP primary running stronger against the president than their fellow Republicans.
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