Jun 28, 2011 – be increased that led to the Cut, Cap, Balance Pledge — force real and sizable cuts, cap spending, and pass a Balanced Budget Amendment … Now is the time for conservatives to up the ante and pledge scorched earth on Republicans who raise the debt ceiling without first … cutting spending significantly, imposing enforceable caps on spending, and passing the Lee-Cornyn-Hatch Balanced Budget Amendment a…

Jun 28, 2011 – The Supreme Court threw out California’s video game censorship for the children, ruling in Brown v EMA that it violated the First Amendment … I love video games, but I agree with Justice Thomas who with Justice Breyer dissented, putting the rights of parents first, and showing…

Jun 27, 2011 – So here’s a better idea: First, Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey needs to get repeated votes on his bill to require that interest … The nominations bill, S. 679, currently pending in the Senate, has a big hidden amendment to ObamaCare in it. … They rose, in many cases, close to double digits in the first year.…

Jun 27, 2011 – terrible crisis, then the best option should be to do nothing — either extract major cuts, cap spending, and get a balanced budget amendment … Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the nation’s stockpile supposedly set aside for emergency supply disruptions.Upon hearing the news, my first…

Jun 24, 2011 – candidate for Congress — incumbent or challenger — who does not sign a pledge promising not to vote for a debt limit increase without first … passing a balanced budget amendment, making deep spending cuts and putting strict limits on future government spending. … primary Republicans who raise the debt ceiling without extracting serious concessions to include passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment…

Jun 23, 2011 – and Ben Domenech are joined by Mario Loyola to discuss the court challenge of Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid, how the Tenth Amendment … So, the individual mandate is there to solve a problem that’s created by Federal regulation in the first place. … How much the 10th Amendment is not just an abstract principal. The 10th amendment was meant to protect self-government.…

Jun 21, 2011 – The bill changes American patent law into European patent law by granting patents to those who file first – giving big corporations … This violates the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution and constitutes a “takings” without just compensation.  …

Jun 21, 2011 – And even more pointed questions about why conducting what has been categorized as being a stealth political attack on Second Amendment … Feel free to first respond by saying “So… guns don’t kill people: people kill people, right?”…

Jun 21, 2011 – If any Republican dares to raise the debt ceiling without first ensuring (1) cuts in the budget; (2) caps in spending; and (3) the … Lee-Cornyn-Hatch Balanced Budget Amendment makes it out to the states, conservatives must agree to at least attempt to find someone … There must be scorched earth against any who vote to raise the debt ceiling without cutting, capping, and balancing first.…

Jun 20, 2011 – met: (1) substantial cuts in spending; (2) enforceable spending caps; and (3) passage of the Lee-Cornyn-Hatch Balanced Budget Amendment … Here’s the Erick Erickson Pledge: I pledge that if any Republican votes to increase the debt ceiling without first cutting, capping … debt ceiling without forcing (1) substantial cuts; (2) enforceable caps; and (3) sending the Lee-Cornyn-Hatch Balanced Budget Amendment…

Jun 20, 2011 – met: (1) substantial cuts in spending; (2) enforceable spending caps; and (3) passage of the Lee-Cornyn-Hatch Balanced Budget Amendment … If the union won, it would have been the first-ever unionized Target in the nation.…

Jul 7, 2011 – Then, there will be no excuses for opposing a Balanced Budget Amendment. … selected individuals, industries, or social engineering endeavors – and those “credits” granted to people who have no tax debit in the first … problem, we can proceed to the real deficit reduction mechanisms; free market entitlement program reforms and a Balanced Budget Amendment…

Jul 7, 2011 – Some, however, are arguing that a Balanced Budget Amendment will never pass, so why bother? … In reality, Republicans won’t get a two-thirds vote in either House when they first bring the Balanced Budget Amendment to the floor … If they do, they will have their way and get a Balanced Budget Amendment.…

Jul 18, 2011 – But when looking to endorse candidates, those who express a willingness to support someone else first will certainly be given more … McConnell sat by idly as sponsors of the bill played “let’s make a deal” — offering amendment after amendment to buy off opponents … to the Incumbent Protection Act a/k/a the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act to take away the free speech rights of Second Amendment…

Jul 13, 2011 – As I first out of the gate and drew the most ire from McConnell supporters, I think it is safe to conclude they are unhappy with me … The GOP should do the same — show an absolute unwillingness to raise the debt ceiling without their balanced budget amendment passing…

Feb 9, 2011 – Leadership has committed to an open amendment process, and many have even intimated that they will support it. … It will be interesting to see if the amendment passes. At this point, I am skeptical that it will. … If proponents are not confident that the amendment passes, then an amendment strategy should be the last resort, and the full slate…

Feb 8, 2011 – The first witness on the agenda, however, is Dr. Thomas J. … DiLorenzo publishes frequently on lewrockwell.com and doesn’t have much use for the fourteenth amendment.…

Feb 5, 2011 – In the first place, Melissa’s post studiously ignored one of the chief reasons that many conservatives have voluntarily chosen not … considered to be a proper function of government in both Western and American tradition – long has the Supreme Court been clear that the First … Amendment offers no protection to obscenity.…

Feb 18, 2011 – The Rehberg Amendment would do the following according to the House Republican Study Committee: This amendment would insert a new … The Rehberg Amendment is phase one and the first skirmish in the effort to chip away, with the ultimate goal of full repeal, of ObamaCare … on the language contained in the Rehberg Amendment. …

Feb 17, 2011 – They have an amendment to the Continuing Resolution (CR) in the House to cut billions more in spending.  … The RSC Amendment would keep the Republican Pledge to America and cut a full $100 billion in non-security discretionary spending with … Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) to restore $510 million for Homeland Security grants for first responders.…

Feb 28, 2011 – who have been on the receiving end of that particular brand of attention unions reserve for anyone bright enough to understand the First … Amendment, and unwise enough to actually apply it, should accordingly take solace that it isn’t personal.…

Feb 23, 2011 – Of course, the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment would be quite surprised to learn that they had made same-sex marriage a constitutional … that only the judicial branch—particularly the Supreme Court—has the authority to determine the appropriate level of Fourteenth Amendment … This is not the first time that President Obama has shown he is willing to do an end run around the other branches of government in…

Feb 22, 2011 – , including House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, joined all of the Democrats to defeat an amendment … the GOP lived up to its “$100 billion in cuts” pledge.This was a failure of leadership, particularly by Eric Cantor.Blackburn’s amendment … Confusing the two to give conservative bona fides where none are deserved got us into this mess in the first place.…

Feb 21, 2011 – .”~ Ronald Reagan, from his first inaugural speech as governor of California, January 5, 1967 Last November, Republicans were … Last week’s fiasco with Steve King’s repeal amendment only affirms the allegation. … For the first time ever, we enjoy an overwhelming majority of support to ‘go for the big plays’.…

Mar 11, 2011 – Act with respect to any fiscal year may be used to carry out the provisions of Public Law 111-148, Public Law 111-152, or any amendment … From the moment legislation to repeal ObamaCare was first introduced, it has been widely discussed that a successful repeal strategy … would center on first winning a Republican majority in the House, then holding a clean, up or down vote on repeal, and then prohibiting…