Is the First Amendment a protection of the individual’s right to free speech or merely a recognition of the social utility of free speech? That’s the question which underlies the divide between the Supreme Courts conservative and liberal wings. Justice
Democrats are facing massive headwinds this election year due to the unpopularity of ObamaCare, but that hasn’t stopped one vulnerable Democrat Senator from embracing the law. Today Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) reaffirmed his support for the healthcare law by saying
Operations to find missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have turned up few leads, and impatience with search operations continues to surface. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who has been embroiled in the missing plane saga, accused the government of not being
Kentucky coach John Calipari enters the Final Four with a majority-freshman roster. That once would have made Kentucky a lock to return to the Final Four in the coming years. Now it means that Calipari will have to recruit a
The Obama administration played a role in GM’s insulation from product liability lawsuits. As it stands, GM is not liable for any injury or death which happened before the government bailout in 2009. General Motors has recalled 1.6 million cars
Withthe Obama administration’s ignoring or rewriting Obamacare seemingly on a dailybasis in violation of the law, Judicial Watch attorneys have turned up the heat on theWhite House. JW filed two newlawsuits designed to break the Obama stonewall – both on
Singer, comic and host of America’s Got Talent, Nick Cannon, defended his “whiteface” persona as simply an impression while “blackface” espouses oppressive racist stereotypes. Cannon told ABC’s Good Morning America, “I know ‘blackface’ was a term that was created in 1869
The House Republican budget set to be unveiled by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Tuesday proposes to balance the federal budget in ten years. Among the many and varied measures proposed by the House Budget Committee chair to save money
As the Obamacare enrollment period draws to a tentative close – and you never know when the period will close, given President Obama’s apparent willingness to manipulate the calendar repeatedly – horror stories about the Affordable Care Act mount. Senate
Interpol harshly rebuked the Malaysian government this week after officials claimed they did not check flyer’s passports against Interpol’s database because their servers were too slow. The feuding follows an announcement from China that they have seen evidence of debris
Hollywood routinely treats environmental matters with doom and gloom proclamations, consider alarmist movies The Day After Tomorrow and An Inconvenient Truth. This weekend, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone of the Spider-Man franchise yukked it up while trumpeting the glory of
Late last week, the Illinois House Revenue Committee approved a plan to impose a tax surcharge on residents earning more than $1 million a year. The measure, backed by Democrat House Speaker Mike Madigan (pictured) would affect around 14,000 individuals
Amazon is denying they will do this, but that’s what big companies do in these situations. The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon is looking at a FREE streaming service of licensed and original content that will be advertiser-based. In
Numerous reports from Malaysian and Australian authorities show that the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been narrowed down and shifted to several hundred miles closer to the city of Perth, Australia. New evidence suggests the plane was
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its latest figures on the annual death toll caused by pollution–and they look shocking. Of all the deaths across the globe in 2012, no fewer than seven million–1 in 8–are apparently the result
The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 continues to narrow as two more satellites find debris fields in a remote location of the southwestern Indian Ocean. Search operations halted Thursday, however, as “severe icing” warnings put search teams at
On March 26th Egyptian Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi resigned his post as minister of defense so he can undertake “a presidential run he is expected to win.” According to The Wall Street Journal, Sisi “tendered his resignation to Egypt’s
French satellites have found what they believe could be a “debris field” made of parts of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Malaysian officials announced to day. The news arrives after inclement weather halted the search Tuesday. Malaysia’s acting transportation minister
The commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution has been the vehicle for expanding the power of the federal government ever since Wickard v. Filburn (1942), much to the delight of big-government liberals. In the Obamacare case of 2012, the Supreme Court
On March 25th the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a San Francisco law that requires “handgun owners to keep their weapons locked up or on their person when they are at home.” The court also upheld a ban
The New York Times reported Tuesday morning that the Obama administration is planning legislation that would limit the amount of private call information the National Security Agency could retain from phone companies and require the NSA to go through a special
As Malaysian authorities definitively conclude that no one could have survived the crash of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the Telegraph reports that police are working with a “suicide mission theory,” as all signs point to the plane being flown deliberately
On Tuesday the a three judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will be hearing Halbig v. Sebelius, one of the more important legal challenges to ObamaCare’s legally problematic implementation. What the plaintiffs are asking is pretty straightforward
On Sunday, a 16-year-old protester died of a severe beating by the Venezuelan National Guard, and a pregnant 28-year-old woman was shot exiting a bus during a protest, as Nicolás Maduro’s regime continues to use severe violence to oppress national
The U.S. Navy was “reborn” on March 27, 1794 when Congress authorized the building of six heavy frigates. Though the new United States had a small navy during the Revolutionary War it was quickly disbanded in peacetime. However, deprivations against
