Yes, the Chavez-supporting Bill Delahunt I wrote about several weeks ago is the same Bill Delahunt who when he was district attorney let Amy Bishop, the neurobiologist who gunned down her colleagues, get away with murdering her brother in 1986.
Freddy’s in Brooklyn is a happening place that has been named one of the city’s best bars by the Village Voice, Esquire, and The New York Times. Unfortunately, Freddy’s–and the surrounding neighborhood–is smack-dab in the footprint of the Atlantic Yards
ABC News: For nearly 30 years, Chicago has banned possession of handguns and automatic weapons inside city limits, one of the most stringent gun laws in the country.
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear McDonald v. Chicago, in which the Court will decide whether the City of Chicago can disarm its citizens by forbidding them from owning handguns, or whether gun ownership is a “privilege” of citizenship
Last time I ragged on our pal James was to take the Malibu mansion-dwelling millionaire to task for his ridiculous “I believe in eco-terrorism” comment. Today, I’m here to talk about the latest idiocy to come out of his mouth.
The District of Columbia’s murder rate plummeted by an astounding 25 percent last year, much faster than for the US as a whole or for similarly sized cities. If you had asked Chicago’s Mayor Daley, that wasn’t supposed to happen.
Everyone has their favorite lawyer joke. Most end up rather poorly for the lawyers. I understand the public outcry against lawyers, recently stoked by the situation at the Department of Justice (DOJ). For those not familiar with this news, Attorney
It always happens. When the mainstream media thinks they are on the heavy side of popular opinion they take a poll and run with it. In a recent poll by ABC and the Washington Post, they determined that 80% of
Polluter Harmony: “It takes strong relationships and the right chemistry to devise schemes that successfully evade or destroy environmental regulations. Sometimes, members of Congress, polluters, and lobbyists are so busy that they don’t have time to find those perfect relationships.
Picture an incandescent light bulb. This is your country. Now imagine a compact fluorescent light bulb. This is your country on Progressivism. What does a country on Progressivism look like? To start with, in the evening hours it’s pretty dim.
Back in early 2009, while the MSM noted the tax evasion problems of several of Obama’s appointees, Congressman Charlie Rangel (D, NY) sat nearby, grinning like the Cheshire Cat from Wonderland. The tax transgressions of Timmy Geithner, Tommy Daschle, Nancy
The U.S. Chamber strongly supports efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, but we believe there’s a right way and a wrong way to achieve that goal. The wrong way is through the EPA’s endangerment finding, which triggers
It’s Not About the Recall, It’s About the First Amendment Review of case briefs, case law research, and consultation with a number of attorneys, judges, and legal professionals contributed to the writing of this article. Tea Party activists might be
Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858 MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now
Daniel Henninger: Nothing–not even George W. Bush–has sent liberaldom screaming into the streets more than the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The Court’s ruling that corporations have a free-speech right to express opinions
To the people of Orlando: your long Florida nightmare may soon be over. Congressman Alan Grayson is up for re-election this year. But in the mean time, he’s continuing his gasbaggery. He’s taking up President Obama’s mantle of intimidating the
The Senate is about to act on the nomination of militant leftist Dawn Johnsen to be the chief of the U.S. government’s elite legal team. But that post is a stepping-stone for top judicial offices, including the Supreme Court itself.
Die-hard supporters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — better known as the infamous ACORN — are not going to like these developments. From City Hall, Edward–Isaac Dovere reports that the embattled Lewis has quietly stepped aside
Remember when the Left was the champion of the Little Guy? When they hated the “undemocratic” Electoral College and passed the 17th Amendment to force the direct election of Senators? When Andrew Jackson effectively invented the modern Democratic Party by
On Friday, I appeared on Bill Moyers Journal with Harvard law prof and cyberspace theorist Lawrence Lessig to discuss the whys and wherefores of the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling. From the show’s writeup: The Supreme Court’s January 2010 decision
Lots of politicians make promises they can’t keep. Statesmen, by contrast, promise less and deliver more. Knowing their own limitations and those of the people they serve, they act according to principles, not just promises. As a presidential candidate Barack
A controversial new documentary film, “Generation Zero” which provides a unique perspective on the causes of the recent financial meltdown and the economic debacle it triggered, will be premiering in a special screening at the National Tea Party Convention in
A major provision of the “Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002”, aka McCain-Feingold, was largely dismissed by the Supreme Court on January 21, 2010. President Obama’s reaction was swift and almost comically over the top. With its ruling today, the
Editors Note: This post is re-printed with permission from The Nation magazine, where it appears as the February 4, 2010 cover story. You can see a video interview with Professor Lessig about the piece here, or take action on issues
As has been amply demonstrated by others, Howard Zinn was an anti-American secular humanist with heavily Marxist leanings. As I have already written, teaching the Zinn Education Project in public schools likely violates the California education code. It discriminates against
