Commentary

Is Banning Racial Preferences Unconstitutional? Supreme Court Will Decide

By Timothy H. Lee
Wednesday, March 27 2013

Since its inception, “affirmative action” has barely survived judicial scrutiny. That it has survived at all is a wonder of judicial contortion. The 14th Amendment, ratified in the aftermath of the Civil War, mandates, inter alia, equal protection of individuals under law: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection…

Reefer Madness: The Obama Team at Sea

	From oysters in California to red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico, federal regulators acting in the name…
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Dangerous “Marketplace Fairness Act” Would Increase Sales Taxes and Expand State Taxation Authority

	Should states be empowered to begin taxing businesses far beyond their individual borders? Should…
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Labor Nominee Puts Landrieu in Quandary

	Louisiana’s Democratic U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu may be in an awkward position due to President…
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Gun Control Could Kill Senate’s Democratic Majority

	What gives Congress the power to think it can treat the Second Amendment like a second-class right?…
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Growing Number of Part-Time Workers is Bad for American Economy

	The findings of a recent Gallup poll show that one-in-five American workers are now employed part-time…
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IG Report Shows Viper’s Den at Justice Department

	The lead two sentences in a Tuesday afternoon Politico story got it right: “A scathing new…
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Obama Should Cut His Million-Dollar Golf Games, Not White House Tours

	According to NBC, canceling White House tours would save the administration $74,000 a week. Taking a…
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Obama Sequester Strategy Revealed [Satire]

	Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, we at the Center for Individual Freedom have been able…
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CBO Report Shows Excessive Spending, Not Insufficient Taxation, Explains Our Deficits

	In 2007, the federal government took in an all-time record $2.6 trillion in revenues. That year’s…
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Kerry’s Foreign Aid to Egypt Paving Way for Islamic State?

	What will the State Department’s $250 million in new foreign aid to Egypt buy for American taxpayers? …
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