June 5, 2016

To the Progressive, Facts Are the Enemy of Certainty

Whenever they need to ignore objective reality, history, and constitutionality progressives just love to say that certainty is not possible. It’s as if they’ve stepped through a looking glass into a world of make-believe where the only re...

May 15, 2016

The Brennan Legacy and the 2016 Election

Time for a reality check. What we need is a winner, because a Trump win in November is how we stop Hillary from appointing another Breyer, Ginsburg, Kagan, or Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. If past is prelude, even a Republican-controlled Senate can...

November 13, 2014

A Pie in the Face from Texas Voters

Sometimes the irony's so thick you can cut it with a knife. Try this on for size: a black Texas Republican wins the protected Democratic House seat in a district that was redrawn by Supreme Court decree to create an "opportunity" under ...

October 30, 2014

Ginsburg Dissent Gives Democrats a Boost

There's one thing we can say about the Texas voter ID dustup with total assurance:  Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissent from the Supreme Court's decision to allow full implementation of the law in this year's election is not the work o...

October 24, 2014

Texas Voter ID Survives the Race Card

Thanks to the Supreme Court, the new Texas voter ID law was in effect when early voting began in the 2014 midterm. The court upheld the Fifth Circuit's stay pending appeal of an October 11, 2014 District Court injunction barring implementation of...

October 2, 2014

Ginsburg's <em>Elle</em> Interview: Identity Politics in Robes

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's recent Elle interview reads like a primer on identity politics, exposing the rot at the heart of the judiciary. Ginsburg's griping about not being able to retire because Obama couldn't appoint anyone like her drew a ...

May 7, 2014

<em>Town of Greece</em> Challenges Liberal Religion Clause Dogma

The decision in Town of Greece v Galloway takes the Supreme Court one step closer to overcoming decades of liberal anti-Christian bigotry. Kennedy's opinion for the Court attacks head-on the longstanding liberal doctrine that nitpicking by m...

February 18, 2014

The Virginia Gay Marriage Decision: Even Worse Than You Think

Ranting about Judge Wright Allen's Virginia gay marriage opinion may clear the sinuses, but actually reading it to find out how she justifies her decision is much more useful. What becomes clear after even minimal exposure is that what we're dealing ...

February 17, 2014

The Second Amendment Reaffirmed

The 9th Circuit has given us a take-no-prisoners affirmation of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. In an opinion by Reagan appointee Diarmuid O'Scannlain, the court flatly rejected the progressive "pretense" of using the regulatory sta...

February 16, 2014

CA Public Employee Unions Under Fire

In June 2912 the SEIU had its head handed to it by SCOTUS for wrongfully financing its political agenda with member's money. Knox v. SEIU leaves no doubt that unions operating in a union shop may not appropriate dues for political purposes without pe...

February 8, 2014

Engelbrecht Unloads on the Honorable Elijah Cummings

This week's IRS hearing by Congressional Oversight Committee were quite lively. The Democratic talking point was faux outrage at payback to the honorable Elijah Cummings, ranking member, delivered by Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote. It seems t...

February 3, 2014

The Philly Test Score Scandal

Dr. Susan Berry's excellent Breitbart.com article on the school cheating scandal in Philadelphia is a miniature roadmap to financial disaster, intellectual mediocrity, political corruption, and moral decay. Citing a report by Steve Gunn at EAGNews, D...

February 1, 2014

Silencing the Opposition

On Wednesday, Mitch McConnell told Fox News' Megyn Kelly that the Obama administration is "initiating a new rule through the Treasury Department in the IRS to quiet the voices of outside groups." According to McConnell, the new rule would redefine wh...

January 29, 2014

Judge McGinley Bungles Voter ID

Bernard L. McGinley's Pennsylvania photo ID opinion leaves us wondering, "Just what's this guy up to?" For starters, it's a split decision. McGinley rules against requiring a photo ID at the polls, but rejects the equal protection claim so dear to th...

August 18, 2013

Overturn Wallace

Town of Greece v. Galloway can make the Supreme Court's highlight reel by setting right 25 years of bad law. Conservatives are spoiling for a fight because the 2nd Circuit's opinion is a direct attack on the longstanding American tradition of opening...

July 23, 2013

A Teachable Moment on Recess Appointments

Obama's brazen attempt to nullify the separation of powers has been slapped down by yet a third federal court. The 4th Circuit held in National Labor Relations Board v. Enterprise Leasing Company Southeast, LLC that orders compelling two companies to...

July 7, 2013

The 10th Circuit Takes a Detour to a Win for Hobby Lobby

The news from the 10th Circuit is good, as far as it goes. A unanimous eight-judge panel ruled last Thursday that Hobby Lobby should not have to pay $475 million in fines to the extortion racket known as ObamaCare while it challenges the constitution...

July 3, 2013

Citizens United: The IRS Scandal's Smoking Gun?

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission did not cause the IRS scandal. And when the Democrats say it did, conservatives should turn their weapon against them with a vengeance. That can be done to great effect because although Citizens United d...

July 9, 2012

Roberts Among the Houyhnhnms

When an opinion as important as John Roberts' in NFIB v. Sebelius calls to mind Jonathan Swift's trashing of elitist doubletalk, something's gone seriously wrong at the Court.  In one of political satire's greatest moments, Gulliver is told that...

June 25, 2012

SCOTUS Derails the Democrats' SEIU Gravy Train

Some days, things just work out right.  Last Thursday was one of those days for conservatives.  It was a day of reckoning for the Service Employees International Union and the Democratic politicians they use our tax dollars to buy and pay f...

June 9, 2012

Justice Stevens Gets a Medal

Every now and then, a picture's taken that perfectly captures political reality.  One of them was snapped on May 29 during the same White House ceremony in which the president insulted millions of Poles with his "death camps" gaffe.  There ...

May 27, 2012

Catholic Lawsuits and the Establishment Clause

The other shoe has officially dropped.  Forty-three Catholic plaintiffs have brought twelve lawsuits charging that the ObamaCare abortion pill mandate violates their free exercise rights.  So perhaps it's time to have some fun with the issu...

May 13, 2012

SCOTUS and Religious Freedom's Slippery Slope

The ObamaCare contraceptive mandate has caught a lot of flack from Catholics who claim that it violates the free exercise rights of church-affiliated employers by forcing them to include birth control in employee health care plans.  The outrage ...

April 29, 2012

Sex, Lies, and School Bus Rides

The furor over the ObamaCare abortion pill mandate may be obscuring a very important point: nothing about the mandate itself, Obama's "compromise" with church-affiliated employers, the Sandra Fluke dustup, or the crass political calculation driving t...

April 12, 2012

Obama's Constitutional Trap for Conservatives

The president's attempt to intimidate the Supreme Court during his April 2 press conference had the distinct smell of desperation.  And the excuse Obama gave -- that nine unelected judges striking down a law enacted by a popularly elected legisl...

March 24, 2012

The Supreme Court and the Winn Decision: A Win for the Constitution

ObamaCare's abortion pill mandate may be the center of media attention now, but it's just the latest skirmish in a decades-long power struggle.  Another fight that conservatives should keep an eye on is the Supreme Court's move to derail the sec...

March 5, 2012

ObamaCare and Contraceptives: The Free Exercise Zero-Sum Game

If conservatives want to win the fight over the abortion pill mandate, they'd better know what its rules are and how progressives exploit them.  The Supreme Court wrote the rules, but they have nothing to do with constitutionality or the First A...