Connecticut just became the tenth blue state to pledge to cast its electoral votes for whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote nationally. Why? Because according to the measure’s proponents, the electoral college — along with everything else that’s more than 10 minutes old — is backward and stupid. Here’s one more step toward making…
It costs a lot of money to fund all of the federal government’s unconstitutional programs and activities. In the first quarter of 2018, the U.S. government hit borrowing levels not seen since the peak of the financial crisis. The U.S. Treasury’s net borrowing totaled $488 billion from January through March, according to a statement released Monday. That was…
A presidential policy (which is what the deal is) is just a policy. It isn't, and constitutionally cannot be, a law.
It seems the kids who wanted the federal government to violate my basic rights are unhappy because a government entity is violating their basic rights. A Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student tweeted out a photo of herself holding a clear backpack issued by the school in the wake of the tragic shooting last month.…
Over the weekend, President Trump celebrated firing more than 100 missiles into Syria by Tweeting, “Mission Accomplished!” They say if you cannot learn from history you are condemned to repeat it. So I guess we are repeating it. We all remember that “Mission Accomplished” was the banner behind then-President Bush as he gloated aboard a…
To "declare war" in eighteenth-century terms included "declaring" by taking military action as well as by issuing a proclamation, and even relatively small armed conflicts with foreign nations were considered "war."
The Senate committee members’ grilling of Zuckerberg put on full display what seems intuitive: that there is no way a legislative body can have adequate knowledge to manage every element of a society of 325,000,000 people (let alone the entire world). These people are comparably ignorant of any particular issue or “policy area” that comes…
Did you know the location of tattoo parlors in Long Beach, California is a federal matter? Yup. It sure is. The city was forced to alter its zoning laws for tattoo shops after a guy named James Real sued the city asserting that restrictions on tattoo businesses violated his First Amendment right to free speech.…
Today, Jeff Sessions issued a statement announcing that the DOJ is officially putting together regulations to ban bump stocks. In a statement, Sessions said the U.S. Justice Department is proposing to amend the rules by clarifying that bump stocks fall within the definition of a “machine gun” under federal law. The DOJ says if the proposal is made final, bump-stock-type devices…
Coming in at over 2200 pages, votes are already starting on a budget that no one in congress has actually read.