Tea Party favorite and newly-elected Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) took his oath of office today – and immediately moved to take on President Obama’s chief legislative accomplishment, Obamacare. Cruz is the first Hispanic to serve as a Texas Senator. His
On January 2, Vanity Fair ran an all-out attack on the constitution, the 2nd Amendment, and common sense in a column by Kurt Eichenwald titled, “Let’s Repeal the Second Amendment.” Eichenwald’s approach consists of attacking the NRA, arguing that gun owners
Last month, a federal district court judge in Albany, New York ruled that the eight year old prosecution of former New York State Senator Joe Bruno can proceed to trial in February of next year. Because the statute under which
The biggest liberal newspaper in the country has printed a column from a top progressive scholar calling on the American people to ignore the Constitution with its “evil provisions,” revealing the far-left agenda for what it is and making sense
Illinois is the only state in the Union that does not allow some sort of concealed carry statute for its law-abiding citizens. Illinois is also home to the city with the highest murder rate in the country. And yet, the
Just last week Breitbart News reported on the threat to religious liberty from the HHS Mandate: starting today, Hobby Lobby is subject to penalties of $1.3 million per day for its owners refusing to violate their Christian beliefs after a
The six Indian men arrested for the brutal gang rape turned murder of a young 23-year-old female student are now facing the death penalty. India erupted in protests over the way the government handled the attack and over how the
Late Sunday evening, Federal Judge Lawrence Zatkoff of Michigan ruled that Domino’s Pizza would not have to provide contraceptives or abortion services to his employees under Obamacare. Zatkoff wrote that the founder of Domino’s, Thomas Monaghan, had “shown that abiding
In a NY Times op-ed, Georgetown University constitutional law professor Louis Michael Seidman called for politicians and judges to engage in “constitutional disobedience.” According to the Georgetown University academic, the Constitution, “with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions”,
(AP) Israel indicts ex-minister LiebermanBy AMY TEIBELThe Associated PressJERUSALEMIsrael’s Justice Ministry filed its indictment against former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in a Jerusalem court on Sunday, charging him with breach of trust and fraud in a case that could further
While politicians have kept the focus on the fiscal cliff and displaced anger toward law-abiding citizens who own guns, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was able to quietly overturn longstanding precedents to give unions some Christmas gifts that will
“We must obey God rather than men!”–Acts 5:29. Now that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied Hobby Lobby’s application for an emergency injunction protecting them from Obamacare’s HHS Mandate on abortion and birth control, Hobby Lobby has decided to
On Thursday, the California Supreme Court upheld two state laws allowing labor unions to picket on privately owned property. Justice Joyce L. Kennard justified the state’s interference in protests on private property because “the state’s interest in promoting collective bargaining
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied Hobby Lobby’s emergency application to be exempted from the HHS Mandate on abortion services, but that should not be considered a sign that the HHS Mandate will survive its legal challenges in the
(Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has refused to block enforcement starting next week of a requirement in President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare overhaul that some companies provide insurance coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. In an order
Chicago has been a shining city on a hill for gun-grabbers for decades. In fact, so extreme is the gun control in the Windy City that prior to the 2010 Supreme Court decision in McDonald v. Chicago, you couldn’t even
Friends and family of Judge Robert Bork gathered in McLean, VA Saturday to lay to rest the legal titan. Six current Supreme Court Justices attended the service, a testament to Bork’s legal legacy. The former Judge and one-time nominee to
American Civil Liberties Union Legislative Counsel Gabe Rottman says that cracking down on violent video games in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut, massacre would be a step in the wrong direction. The group says that just because Adam Lanza,
The nation mourns the passing of one of the finest judges ever to sit on the federal bench: Robert Heron Bork. This distinguished judge passed away on Dec. 19 at the age of 85, and his contributions to the law
(AP) Bork, whose failed nomination made history, diesARLINGTON, Va. Robert H. Bork, who stepped in to fire the Watergate prosecutor at Richard Nixon’s behest and whose failed 1980s nomination to the Supreme Court helped draw the modern boundaries of cultural
Judge Robert Bork, who’s probably best known for being defeated in 1987 as a Supreme Court Nominee after Ted Kennedy launched a vicious and malicious personal attack against him, is dead at the age of 85. By all accounts, Bork was
Robert Bork, former federal judge and Supreme Court nominee, has died due to heart complications in a Virginia hospital. Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan in 1988 but withdrew his name from consideration after contentious Senate
As those who carry water for the gun-control crowd do so feverishly in the aftermath of the Connecticut shooting, the New York Times (NYT) is leading the pack by trying to convince students of American jurisprudence that the Supreme Court created a
A top federal appeals court signaled Friday that it might act on Obamacare’s HHS Mandate–requiring employers to cover birth control and abortion-related services. After repeated assurances that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would not mandate abortion or people of faith
(AP) Federal judges sue to win promised pay increasesBy JESSE J. HOLLANDAssociated PressWASHINGTONWith the nation teetering on an economic “fiscal cliff,” federal judges may soon force Congress to dedicate possibly millions of dollars to what some of those same judges
