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Today the Supreme Court handed down a decision regarding the EPA’s recent efforts to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The ruling essentially bars the Enviromental Protection Agency (EPA) from unilaterally rewriting federal law to make its climate change related regulations more workable for the agency....
Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) informed the House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means that they had “lost” three years worth of emails from Lois Lerner, the disgraced IRS official at the center of the scandal involving the IRS targeting of conservative and tea party groups, because her computer crashed. Naturally, many were skeptical of the claim given its...
Obviously, the order in which the amendments in the Bill of Rights appear does not give any one admendment supremacy over another. That being said, it is safe to assume that since the founding fathers incorporated Freedom of Speech into the First Amendment, they obviously found it of the utmost importance to the survival of our republic. Yet despite what could not be a clearer enumeration, the...
Today the House Committee on Ways and Means announced that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), has claimed to have “lost” three years of emails from disgraced official Lois Lerner due to a computer glitch. Conveniently, the misplaced emails are from the same time period when targeting of conservative and tea party groups was occurring under Lerner’s watch. American Encore President Sean Noble...
Syndicated columnist Michael Barone has a piece in which he gives praise to a book that argues America, and the western welfare state model generally, is coming very close to the day in which its impossible financial obligations dramatically outweigh its ability to pay for them. The weight of our debt is seemingly only surpassed by the short-sightedness and passivity of our politicians. ...
