Today in 1781, the Battle of Yorktown concluded with a Franco-American triumph over the British, a decisive conclusion to the American War for Independence.
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October 19, 1789 – John Jay was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States. Even a quick overview of his views on the Constitution, war and peace, property rights and more – can show just how far almost everyone today is from our founding principles.
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Washington nominated Jay for the position on Sept. 24, the same day he signed the Judiciary Act of 1789, and the Senate unanimously confirmed Jay two days later.
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Conventional wisdom tells us federal courts will protect our rights better than state courts. This is why virtually everything is turned into a federal case. But two recent cases relating to cell phone search warrants reveal this isn’t always the case.
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The supremacy clause is limited by three key words that always seem to get left out.
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Bernanke was Fed chairman when the housing bubble, created by his predecessor Alan Greenspan in the wake of the bursting of Greenspan’s tech bubble and the 9-11 attacks, exploded. When the housing market collapsed, Bernanke worked with Congress and the Bush administration to bail out big banks and Wall Street firms.
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Last week, the Detroit City Council narrowly approved an expansion of the city’s controversial ShotSpotter surveillance technology. But instead of using COVID stimulus money as initially planned, the funding will come out of the police department’s own budget.
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With more calls – yet again – to ban so-called “assault weapons,” it’s important to point out that even IF one could call these “weapons of war,” the founders wanted the people to be armed with the “terrible implements of the soldier.”
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