Forbes – Since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, he has changed it five times. Most notably, he suspended the employer mandate last summer. This is widely known, but almost no one seems to have grasped its significance. The Constitution authorizes the President to propose and veto legislation. It does not authorize […]
NYC Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly Blind to His Gun-Control Hypocrisy
Daily Caller – Outgoing New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has spent his career promoting an extreme gun control agenda. He believes it should be as difficult as possible, and mostly illegal, for law-abiding Americans to own a firearm for self-defense. Now he wants taxpayers to pay $750,000 for his personal protection as he […]
Is Our Government Still “Of the People”?
The Foundry – It took a long Civil War and hundreds of thousands of dead, but America eventually rid itself of the scourge of slavery and the democratic cause triumphed, thereby confirming Lincoln’s contention that “ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets.” The challenge to democratic government, however, would not disappear. In the […]
Finally, E-Verify Security Tightened to Deter ID Theft
USCIS – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that the E-Verify program has been enhanced to help prevent identity fraud. The enhancement identifies and deters fraudulent use of Social Security numbers (SSNs) for employment eligibility verification. An employer may enter information into E-Verify that appears valid – such as a matching name, date of […]
Obama’s Obsession With Our Gun Rights
Daily Caller – Barack Obama, the candidate who promised Americans in 2008 that “I will not take your guns away,” now, as President of the United States in 2013, has embraced the universal firearm confiscation of Australia and England—schemes that saw the destruction of hundreds of thousands of registered, legal firearms that had been outlawed […]
Texas A&M Law Professor Says It’s Time to Repeal Second Amendment
Daily Caller – A full-time professor on the faculty of the newly-minted Texas A&M University School of Law called for the repeal and replacement of the Second Amendment. She tells students in her constitutional law courses that the entire United States Constitution is an obsolete document. “Why do we keep such an allegiance to a […]