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Liberal 9th Circuit: Second Amendment Rights not Limited to One’s Home

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 20 2014

One conspicuous casualty of the Obama Administration’s ongoing boondoggle of lawlessness and ideological fiat is something that was once a reliable conservative grievance. Namely, the increasingly rare complaint of “judicial activism” – properly defined not as overturning democratically enacted statutes that happen to be flawed, but rather when judges dissatisfied with their role of interpreting laws as opposed to making laws impose their policy desires absent constitutional or statutory basis. Now in the sixth year of Obama’s tenure, we’ve witnessed…

Problems at the Obama Library [Satire]

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IRS, Obama Administration Suffer Unanimous New Legal Defeat

	In a unanimous decision employing startling but justifiably harsh terms, the nation’s second-highest…
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On ObamaCare, the President Gives Up

	There are a number of ways to look at Monday’s announcement that the Treasury Department is going…
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Whereas Obama Once Compared Himself to Reagan, Today It’s Nixon

	Back in 2008, Barack Obama brashly aspired to a Reagan-like “transformative” presidency: …
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CBO Report: ObamaCare Kills Jobs, Doesn’t Help the Uninsured

	Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo famously said “You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose.”…
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New Worldwide Index Reveals Value of Intellectual Property to U.S. Prosperity

	It’s no secret that America’s economy has continued to stagnate throughout Barack Obama’s…
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The State of the Union and the State of the Presidency

	Back in 2008, one of the McCain campaign’s repeated attacks on Barack Obama was that he was more…
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How ObamaCare’s Insurance Bailouts Add Up to Crony Capitalism

	Looking back on the first four months of ObamaCare – an error-prone rollout for Healthcare.gov…
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The Results Are In: Red States Dominate

	Defenders of federalism — the practice of devolving as much power as practicable to state and local…
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Global Cooling? Great Lakes Experiencing Deepest Freeze in 25 Years

	Want to stump a global warming alarmist? Just ask him to describe how the Great Lakes were originally…
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