Mar 14, 2013 – With the passage of the 16th Amendment in 1913, the federal government gained the ability to siphon more money from the states through … The same year, the 17th Amendment sharply undercut state legislators’ influence by subjecting U.S. … As a first step toward putting competitive federalism into action, Mayer explained that the Liberty Foundation plans to ask members…

Mar 12, 2013 – For the first time in almost two years we are actually having a discussion about the rising cost of health insurance engendered by … Cruz is proposing an amendment to the CR, which is already full of Barbara Mikulski’s pork, to defund Obamacare. … Supporting the amendment in the abstract is not good enough. …

Mar 29, 2013 – First, you are not loving your neighbor if you are cool with them going to hell. Do you want to go to hell? No? … We are using the state to protect our ability to preach the scripture under the first amendment.…

Mar 28, 2013 – Fifty-eight percent of first births among this group are now to unmarried women. … About 60 percent of first born children in Denmark now have unmarried parents. … (Solely on the “marriage” front, in Massachusetts’s first four years, this statistic was 62 percent.)…

Mar 28, 2013 – These numbers are never cited by anti-Second Amendment advocates. … not cede further ground on this issue due to fear on language: any attempt to curtail the civil liberty outlined in the Second Amendment … First, they’re interchangeable, easily modified, and can be made with remedial shop skills in your garage.…

Mar 28, 2013 – The religious liberty in the first amendment is meant to protect the religious as they seek to draw people to them. … But the world demands instead that the first amendment be used to draw the religious to the world and silence those who refuse to go…

Mar 26, 2013 – ObamaCare for illegals Last Friday, the Senate voted along party lines (43-56) to kill an amendment that would have prevented illegal … It was my first opportunity to observe Obama closely. … His amendment would have required the payment of “prevailing wages” (significantly higher than the minimum wage) to guest workers,…

Mar 26, 2013 – It should never have been regulated by government in the first place, and government shouldn’t have an expanded reach in further regulating … Do not people of faith retain their First Amendment liberty of freedom of religion?…

Mar 26, 2013 – Libertarians will have to decide which they value more — the ability of a single digit percentage of Americans to get married or the first … amendment.…

Mar 26, 2013 – They were on opposite sides of the sales tax compact amendment vote, though. … That is, any one first state that shifts from buyer-owes to seller-owes in sales tax, creating the marketplace of sales taxes that…

Mar 25, 2013 – Any amendment to the Rules must first pass in the Standing Committee on Rules, and then it must pass by a 75% vote of the entire 168 … The influence of the RNC chairman is so powerful that no amendment to the Rules is likely without your personal support.  … Your neutrality would probably defeat any proposed amendment which is in any way controversial.…

Mar 24, 2013 – Early Saturday morning, the Senate adopted its first concurrent budget resolution in four years.  … On the Republican side, perhaps the most egregious vote was the Enzi amendment to allow states to form a cartel and collect internet … The so-called Market Fairness Act passed in the form of a second degree amendment by 75-24, with the support of 26 Republicans. …

Mar 22, 2013 – We have a First Amendment, which I strongly support.…

Apr 10, 2013 – The small matter that stealing his mother’s guns was a crime in the first place did nothing to deter him from murder, which was his … In a normal world this would be an argument for why citizens, who are their own first responders, should have a fighting chance with … The Democrats’ bill seeks to criminalize private commerce with regards to the Second Amendment, which would make even gifts from a…

Apr 8, 2013 – First, the left-wing network offered an extremely creepy segment in which host Krystal Ball coaxed her 5-year-old daughter into offering … How can anyone defend the powdered-wig crowd and their silly old musket-based Second Amendment against first-graders asserting that…

Apr 7, 2013 – This Selective Blindness, at its core, is a selective application of the First Amendment, that will have a lasting impact on what we … That is playing a dangerous game of Russian Roulette with the First Amendment.  …

Apr 6, 2013 – about to keep his job – than a principled Republican who wouldn’t have been unsound on this particular civil rights issue in the first … they have to make the story about that awful, awful National Rifle Association and its despicable tendency to go out and use the First … Amendment to protect the Second.…

Apr 5, 2013 – Late Thursday afternoon, the Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives took the first step toward capitulation on the Obamacare … A few hours later, the amendment directing the Texas state healthcare bureaucracy to start preparing for the expansion was reconsidered … First, it’s well known in Austin that though the Governor is against the expansion, his staff is soft on the issue.…

Apr 3, 2013 – the criminals have them isn’t a good enough reason against why law-abiding gun owners shouldn’t — especially as they are their own first … The anti-Second Amendment lobby is made up of two types of people: individuals who know absolutely nothing about firearms and individuals…

Apr 1, 2013 – Cato bases its defense on photography being protected by the first amendment. … But note this: Our brief explains that photography is an art form protected by the First Amendment because clients seek out the photographer … Photography is thus a form of expression subject to the First Amendment’s protection, unlike many other wedding-related businesses…

Jul 17, 2013 – All but 22 conservatives signed onto it because it officially contained a balanced budget amendment, as promised, even though it wasn … Once we got there, it was a huge shot in the arm, but you’ve got to get there first.” … If you tell them enforcement first, they will find a way to craft a bill “in the spirit of enforcement first,” and ship it off to the…

Jul 14, 2013 – He has held Washington’s feet to the fire to protect the Second Amendment rights that we all hold so dear, especially in the face of … When you walk into my office the first thing you see is a huge picture of my daughter when she was 4 years old. … And I know the 2nd Amendment & the 10th Amendment are not suggestions: they are guaranteed rights: I’ve fought against human traffickers…

Jul 12, 2013 – Swinging into the saddle of his fiscally responsible charger and raising his balanced-budget lance for the first tilt is the dashing … And a vanilla Balanced Budget Amendment with no other restraints on spending is a vehicle for perpetual tax increases.   … But a serious, fearless, rational, and unified commitment to putting a tourniquet on that deficit bleeding is an important first step…

Jul 29, 2013 – Congressmen who assert this are either asserting that funding is not being spent to implement Obamacare (false) or that a defund amendment … the majority, the Republican House included such a defunding provision on the continuing spending resolution (HR 1) when the bill first … Also on January 1, Americans will be forced by their government to buy a product—health insurance—for the first time ever. …

Jul 28, 2013 – “Although the amendment was defeated 205-217, it is clear that concerns remain about the continued implementation of the program in … The amendment was, of course, Rep. … Justin Amash’s amendment to alter NSA/FISA procedures: and as the above shows, it failed by a razor-thin margin.…