The Illusion of State Sovereignty
August 1, 2009 by Dawn
Filed under Featured Writers, Features
In the last 100 days, 36 states have introduced sovereignty bills. Almost entirely a conservative/libertarian movement, these bills aim to reclaim powers that are allegedly allocated to the states under the 10th Amendment, and free the states from onerous federal policy and regulation. Incidentally, the last time this movement occurred was during the commencement of [...]
Rep. Todd Akin (MO): Sotomayor Represents Judicial Activism
July 16, 2009 by Dawn
Filed under Featured Writers, Features
By Rep. Todd Akin (M0)
America’s legal tradition is the most principled, reliable, and open of any society in history. The corner stone of this tradition is the U.S. Constitution, which William Gladstone, four-time British Prime Minister, called “the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.” By its nature, it is an enduring document. Yet, its reliability will soon be compromised by the placement of a new Supreme Court Justice.
Judge Sotomayor has downplayed her remarks that courts of appeal are “where policy is made.”. . .
Thomas Jefferson vs. ABC News
June 22, 2009 by Dawn
Filed under Featured Writers, Profiles in Conservatism
By Kelli Krauss
“The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers… [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass [...]
