September 10, 2018

The Race to Get Trump in New York Courts

New York State’s attorney general can investigate and prosecute the businesses and charities of Donald Trump based there, beyond the reach of presidential pardons. Four Democrats are fighting for the opportunity to lead the legal charge. Faced ...

August 17, 2018

Let Vermont Show Wyoming the Way

The coming midterms have brought renewed attention from Democrats to one of their perennial complaints: the malapportionment of the United States Senate, where each state gets two senators regardless of population.  This is usually fra...

December 20, 2017

Blue-State Scrooges

As I look out of my office window at the glass and steel office buildings lined up Sixth Avenue like corporate soldiers drawn up at attention before Radio City Music Hall, my thoughts turn to – tax reform.  Specifically to the to the ...

April 13, 2017

Why Sanctuary Cities Encourage Illegal Immigration

Numerous cities have declared themselves to be “sanctuary cities,” where local police are forbidden to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in enforcing our national immigration laws.  Legislation is now moving through the ...

September 8, 2016

Corporate Tax Evaders for Hillary: Why Big Business Supports the Tax-Hiking Candidate

One of the curious aspects of this very curious 2016 election is the significant support for Hillary Clinton from large corporations.  Hillary has proposed many tax hikes, and been silent on the question of reducing the United States’ 35% ...

August 11, 2016

Would Trump Ever Leave the Race?

Donald Trump has fought through a 17-challenger field to win the Republican presidential nomination.  Now the smartest move for Trump would be to leave the race. Yes, I mean that.  (And I am not the only one to wonder if his commitment...

September 16, 2015

Ask the Candidates What They Will Do About the Supreme Court

With the Supreme Court’s imposition of gay marriage nationwide and county clerk Kim Davis’ defiance all recent news, it is likely that constitutional issues will come up at this Wednesday’s GOP presidential candidate’s debate....

January 2, 2015

Tom Donohue for speaker of the House

Conservative Republicans’ deep-seated dissatisfaction with John Boehner’s lackluster performance as Speaker of the House has erupted in widespread calls for his replacement when the House of Representatives meets on January 6 to elect a n...

September 5, 2014

Too Cool to Care: Could Obama's Privileged and Pot-filled Adolescence Explain his Presidential Lassitude?

Barack Obama stands apart from other modern American Presidents in many ways.  In addition to the obvious bi-racial background, he is the only President to win the Nobel Peace Prize in his first term, and the only one ever designated Advertising...

October 14, 2013

Sun Tzu, Ken Cuccinelli, and the 'War on Women' Gambit

Maybe we really have fallen through the looking glass.  Virginia's highly qualified and able Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, continues to trail shady political hack Terry McAuliffe in recent polls of the Virginia governor's race.  The gap...

August 31, 2013

Enacting the Liberty Amendments

The heartening success of Mark Levin's The Liberty Amendments has brought to the fore the long-standing debate over the unused second half of the Constitution's Article V. This allows two thirds of the States to require Congress to issue a call for a...

July 8, 2012

Justice Roberts Explains Justice Roberts: Politics, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Change

For students of constitutional history, one of the eerie aspects of Chief Justice John Roberts' vote to uphold the ObamaCare individual mandate was its resonance with the vote of an earlier Justice Roberts.  Chief Justice Roberts has not explain...

November 9, 2011

The Real 1%

With the constant nattering of the Occupy Wherever movement, it looks like we are going to have to deal with the notion of the 1% vs. the 99% for some time to come.  Of course, the Occupy people, to the extent they have any coherent notions at a...

September 24, 2011

The Democrat Handbook: Playing Like It's 1936 All Over Again

It is now clear (as if there was ever any doubt) that the Democrats will be reverting to their traditional narrative for the 2012 elections.  President Obama's tax-the-rich fiscal proposal and Democrats' congressional district by-election campai...

August 29, 2011

You call this 'regulatory reform'?

Professor Cass Sunstein has announced the first results of the regulatory review the President ordered at the beginning of the year.  Sunstein is the regulatory czar to the czar of all the czars -- his former University of Chicago law ...

August 3, 2011

Barack Obama is the Real Winner In the Debt Ceiling Deal

The mainstream media and leftist talking heads are declaring the debt ceiling deal a great victory for the Tea Party and a defeat for Barack Obama.  However, the political reality is that Barack Obama is the real winner from this deal.  The...

June 1, 2011

A Balanced Budget Amendment is not enough - Give Us Back Our Constitution

Washington is all astir over the Obama administration's demand that the debt ceiling be raised so that the federal government can increase its borrowing (and hence spending).  House Republicans are assuring their Tea Party supporters that they w...

March 20, 2011

Bernie Sanders, Free Marketeer?

Successful politics requires certain skills.  Two of these are persuasion and building strategic alliances.  Both are going to be essential if we are ever to have any hope of putting down the over-centralized, freedom-sapping, federal behem...