Americans have cut back on buying cars, furniture and clothes in a tough economy, but there’s one consumer item that’s still enjoying healthy sales: guns. Purchases of firearms and ammunition have risen 8 to 10 percent this year, according to state and federal data.
Several variables drive sales, but many dealers, buyers and experts attribute the [...]
“The executive’s current claim of absolute immunity from compelled Congressional process for senior presidential aides is without any support in the case law.”
Yesterday, the Second Amendment was preserved. At least it was somewhat preserved. The Supreme Court decided in District of Columbia v. Heller (PDF) that it was the right of individuals to “keep and bear arms” individually. SCOTUS had never decided on this aspect of the Second Amendment and I think it’s safe to say that [...]
Filed in Detroit in 2006, the challenge was brought on behalf of several Michigan attorneys and Muslim leaders who thought they may be the targets of domestic spying by the U.S. government. They claimed that a program by the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans without court approval violated the law and their constitutional [...]
It can’t. The numbers simply don’t add up. Normally, you can’t give money to people that you don’t have but when you are able to print more of the stuff, why should conventional wisdom apply? When members of Congress become concerned about losing seats, they temporarily forget that handy arithmetic they learned in [...]
“I am disappointed in the way the Congress compiled this legislation, including abandoning the goal I set early this year to reduce the number and cost of earmarks by half. Instead, the Congress dropped into the bill nearly 9,800 earmarks that total more than $10 billion. These projects are not funded through a merit-based [...]