Fed Guilty; New Berlin Not Guilty
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 96 Current Event Journal Sentinel, June 23, 2011 (full article available online) U.S. authorities sued New Berlin Thursday, alleging that race was the reason the city blocked a low-income housing development by MSP Real Estate Inc., a violation of the federal Fair Housing Act. A 13-page complaint filed [...]
Teachers Join Constitutional Challenge
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 95 Current Event According to the Journal Sentinel, June 15, 2011 Madison – One day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered the reinstatement of collective bargaining legislation that potentially affects thousands of public-sector employees, a coalition of unions filed suit in federal court seeking to block the ruling. [...]
Health Care Law Challenge with Standing
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 94 Submitted by: Mark Musselman Current Event According to the Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2011 RICHMOND, Va.—A federal appeals-court panel Tuesday questioned the state of Virginia’s right to sue to overturn the federal health care overhaul and showed sympathy towards the Obama administration’s arguments on the substance of [...]
The Looming Social Security Crisis: A common-sense, free-market plan for reforming Social Security.
Introduction: Since the introduction of The Path to Prosperity: Restoring America’s Promise, herein referred to Representative Paul Ryan’s budget proposal, earlier this month, Social Security reform has taken a backseat to the restructuring of Medicare. At this writing, Social Security remains the largest, most convoluted, and easiest to reform of the three entitlement programs. The [...]
Government-Dependent Press Losing Its Freedom
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 93 Current Event According to FOXNews.com - June 02, 2010 (full article available online) A list of potential policy recommendations to reinvent the field of journalism that has been compiled by the Federal Trade Commission is a “dangerous” overreach of power and a waste of taxpayer funds, critics of [...]
Government-Dependent People Losing Their Freedom
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 93 Current Event According the Wall Street Journal; September 15, 2010 Efforts to tame America’s ballooning budget deficit could soon confront a daunting reality: Nearly half of all Americans live in a household in which someone receives government benefits, more than at any time in history. At the same [...]
Libya and The War Powers Act
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 92 Current Event Published May 22, 2011 | FoxNews.com President Obama could be impeached for violating U.S. Constitution and law by going into Libya without congressional consent, but Rep. Dennis Kucinich says he doesn’t want to cause that kind of havoc on the Republic, he just wants the [...]
GITMO IS OK
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 91 Current Event According to the New York Times on March 7, 2011 WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday reversed his two-year-old order halting new military charges against detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, permitting military trials to resume with revamped procedures but implicitly admitting the failure of his pledge [...]
Current Events v. Founding Documents: Fed Judge Opposes Nat’l Day of Prayer
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 87 Current Event According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on April 16, 2010 (full article available on-line) A Wisconsin federal judge on Thursday found the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional, saying it violates the First Amendment prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion. The decision by U.S. District [...]
OP-ED: The 10 Cannots, Counsel for POTUS
In 1916, outspoken conservative activist, and Presbyterian Reverand, William J. H. Boetcker penned what became globally renowed as the The Ten Cannots. This wisdom is often misattributed to President Lincoln. If there is any counsel I could offer our president, it would be this. “You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot [...]
