Mar 27, 2012 – On Thursday, the Cut, Cap, and Balance budget will be proposed as a floor amendment (H. Con. Res. 113) to the Ryan budget.  … It will also grant those who voted to kill CCB last year a second chance to right the ship. Long live Cut Cap and Balance!…

Mar 26, 2012 – The Act violates the 10th Amendment in general or through Medicaid issues. The Penalty violates the taxing power. … Second, the penalty is a penalty and not a tax and thus the AIA is irrelevant.  … They claim the 14th Amendment effectively repealed the apportionment requirement.  I answer that here.…

Mar 25, 2012 – Second, the administration understands the inherent bias in insurance company numbers when it suits its purposes. … Finally, there was the opportunity to reopen the bill to further amendments, including an amendment on the severability clause, to … assuage Democratic moderates like Ben Nelson, after the manager’s amendment had been presented.…

Mar 23, 2012 – have blood on their hands because they apparently built a time machine with their billions and went back to 1789 and inserted the second … amendment into the Bill of Rights.…

Mar 23, 2012 – Louisiana House of a landmark school choice bill (the bill still awaits action from the LA Senate), before proceeding to debate a second … Jindal still faces a tough fight – some of the legislators who voted for the bill also voted for an amendment limiting the use of local … Second is that we devastate critical services like education and health care. We’re not willing to do that.…

Apr 26, 2012 – Second, because the bills were shunted off to conference straight from the Senate, House conservatives were denied an open floor process … last year’s insanity, Tom McClintock has drafted a letter to House leadership requesting adherence to their promise of an open amendment … Yesterday, Congressman Jeff Flake offered an amendment to cut another $95 billion in spending, and let’s just say that the results…

Apr 25, 2012 – In the second decade of the twenty-first century, progressive activists are engaging in a similar pattern of intimidation and violence … Massachusetts, turning religious liberty on its head, has since declared that such a disqualification is required by the First Amendment—that … practice is too eerily similar to that strain of American fascism that reared its head almost one hundred years ago heading into the second…

Apr 24, 2012 – Second, this bill would re-amortize the entire prefunded payment structure, denying the Treasury of nearly $30 billion. … Later on, Senator McCain proposed a substitute amendment (S. 1625), which would create a new postal oversight board (similar to BRAC…

Jan 8, 2014 – Why in the world would Republicans reward Obama’s malevolence and disregard for our immigration laws by granting him his biggest second-term … And thanks to Harry Reid’s new precedent, that would include control over the amendment process. …

Jan 26, 2014 – base is highly motivated to throw out Democrats and take the Senate in 2014 — particularly those who hate ObamaCare and love the Second … Amendment.…

Feb 19, 2014 – Referencing my general rule of thumb that the average gun-control activist is about twenty or so IQ points dumber than the average Second … Amendment advocate: no, I’m pretty sure that the folks currently possessing those “military-style assault weapons” are both well aware…

Mar 11, 2014 – And when it comes to gun control, everyone with proper reverence for the Second Amendment lives in fear of the Republican squish who … Just as we view our Second Amendment rights as a crucial element of our independence, the Left thinks the right to keep and bear arms … But if he truly believes in the Second Amendment, and can capably articulate the ramifications of that belief, shouldn’t that be good…

Mar 3, 2014 – “Our role is not to second-guess the decision to have a Cinco de Mayo celebration or the precautions put in place to avoid violence … It’s an unbelievably conflated view of the First Amendment. In legalese, this is called a heckler’s veto.  … And with it, they have expelled the First Amendment.…

Mar 21, 2014 – ) found that the presence of Planned Parenthood representatives wandering around the house and videotaping violated the Fourth Amendment … In addition, the action violated the Fourth Amendment because it exceeded the writ, which authorized only “a representative from [PPCW … Although the Fourth Amendment does not require that all conduct by an officer within a home be expressly authorized by a court order…

Mar 21, 2014 – His latest embarrassment is, as President of the NRA, endorsing Mike Simpson for Congress in Idaho’s second Congressional District. … He opposed a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Idaho, is bad on guns, once said he has “a tendency to lean toward … I just donated $25 to Bryan Smith — the actual pro-second amendment conservative in Idaho who has a better record on guns than Mike…

Mar 18, 2014 – Simpson is close to being unseated by Bryan Smith in Idaho’s Second District.  … Next up is Renee Ellmers running for reelection in North Carolina’s Second Congressional district.  … It continues: “Ellmers voted for a Balanced Budget Amendment to cut the debt and stop the wasteful spending in Washington.…

Mar 26, 2014 – On the second, no one is arguing religious entrepreneurs were harmed “all the years they lacked” the right to operate as religious … leftwing Talking Points Memo, has seemingly failed to grasp that the issue at stake in the Hobby Lobby case is not about the First Amendment … Undoubtedly, a corporation with a First Amendment right to speech has one related to free exercise of religion.…

Apr 8, 2014 – The Second Amendment is on its way to becoming a right that average people cannot afford to exercise.…

Apr 8, 2014 – He acknowledged the existence of the Second Amendment, which gives people the unqualified right to own and carry weapons, but nevertheless … “It’s those kinds of things that I think we want to try to explore so that people have the ability to enjoy their Second Amendment … Amendment is dwarfed by its value.…

Apr 4, 2014 – of Chicago registered more homicides than any city in the nation in 2012, surpassing even New York — despite the fact that the Second … 2013, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled a law passed in Illinois which effectively banned carrying a loaded weapon violated the Second … Amendment and struck it down.…

Apr 4, 2014 – Less noticed was the direct assault on the First Amendment by the four justices who made up the minority in this case. … As with the Second Amendment, he and the other dissenters assert a “collective” right, the establishment of which is purportedly the … We see this with the scorched earth tactics used by the anti-Second Amendment groups, the homosexual privilege’s groups, the various…

Apr 18, 2014 –   Nine years ago the US Supreme Court, in an opinion authored by noted Second Amendment authority John Paul Stevens, eviscerated … the “takings” clause of the Fifth Amendment.…

Apr 17, 2014 – The Supreme Court has twice (Heller in 2008 and McDonald 2010) ruled that the Second Amendment really is part of the Bill of Rights…

Apr 14, 2014 – The Second Amendment expressly endorsed the substantive common-law rule that protected the citizen’s right (and duty) to keep and bear … That anomalous result can be avoided by adding five words to the text of the Second Amendment to make it unambiguously conform to the … If Stevens’ philosophy had triumphed, the Second Amendment would have been a right that only existed on paper.…

Apr 30, 2014 – What should concern the anti-Second Amendment forces is that the VPC looks to be operated as a piggybank to provide jobs for its staff…