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The “Commerce Clause” – An Invaluable Constitutional Restraint against ObamaCare and Other Tyrannies from the Founding Fathers

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, December 16 2010

The Congress shall have Power … To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes… ~The Constitution of the United States of America, Article I, Section 8 How symbolically fitting is this? During the very week in which we celebrate the original Tea Party hosted by Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty in 1773, a federal judge in Virginia declared ObamaCare’s central coercive pillar – its “individual mandate” – unconstitutional. District Judge Henry Hudson, after all, affirmed…

A Conservative Christmas List

	Dear President Obama, Age disabuses us of many of the sweetest fables of our childhood.…
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Peggy Noonan Stalls on “New Start”

	What to make of Peggy Noonan's recent intellectual fender-bender in The Wall Street Journal? Ironically…
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Jeff Flake: An Appropriator Conservatives May Come to Love

	Finally, there is good news for fiscal conservatives about congressional spending. Though it seems…
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Pigford Settlement Fraud Opening Floodgates for Other Groups’ "Reparations" Claims

	Happy Reparations Day, America! Tucked away in news reports about the “grand bargain” on…
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Cancun Climatologists: Americans Should Impose “Rationing System” and “Halt Economic Growth”

	On this very week in 1942, coffee was added to the list of rationed items in the United States, joining…
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A Landmark Presidency No More? Obama’s Historical Legacy May be Smaller Than He Thinks

	If a classified ad ran for the presidency of the United States, any serious applicant could be considered…
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WikiLeaks Exposes Liberal Double Standard on Whistle Blowers

	Ever since Daniel Ellsberg and his enablers at The New York Times published the Pentagon Papers, liberals…
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Holder & Napolitano: Two Turkeys That Need the Ax

In recent years, presidents have pardoned two turkeys from facing the chopping block on Thanksgiving…

	1. The DREAM Act Is NOT Limited to Children, And It Will Be Funded On the Backs Of Hard Working, Law-Abiding…
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It Wasn’t the Economy, Stupid

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