Drunk driving laws don’t often come up as a campaign issue, but when they do my reaction isn’t always what the person who brings them up in a campaign usually intends. DUI law in our country is chock full of gross violations of Constitutional rights, so I find myself impulsively sympathetic to the candidate accused [...]

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Given that Sotomayor was nominated by Barack Obama, I never had high hopes that she’d be good on federalism, guns, economic regulation, labor issues, property rights or the rest of the issues that I agree with the Court “conservatives” on. I did, however, hope that she’d be at least good on the things that [...]

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Over at StogieGuys.com, I wrote the following column about how nanny-staters chip away at our rights.
It’s the perfect example getting the camels nose under the tent. In other words, they set the precedent for taking away our rights, then, before you know it, they expand a seeming narrow violation of our freedom and use it [...]

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This video comes to us from Citizens in Charge Foundation, a Virginia-based group that defends citizens’ right to petition their government.

Also check out this rousing speech given by Paul Jacob, long-time libertarian activist and Citizens in Charge Foundation president, when he recently accepted the Charlton Heston “Courage Under Fire” Award.
Wikipedia has information regarding Paul’s resistance [...]

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Here’s a question you’re not supposed to ask:

Wall Street Strip
Is Paulson’s bailout bill unconstitutional?
By Rod Smolla
Posted Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008, at 1:43 PM ET Henry Paulson
Does the Constitution have any role in the intense debate and blowback surrounding Secretary Henry Paulson’s $700 billion bailout proposal? There is nothing in our founding document that prohibits taxing [...]

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Today’s Washington Post contains a must read from George Will. here’s the key passage:
The political left always aims to expand the permeation of economic life by politics. Today, the efficient means to that end is government control of capital. So, is not McCain’s party now conducting the most leftist administration in American history? The [...]

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Rasmussen Polling asks:
Should the Supreme Court make decisions based on what’s written in the Constitution and legal precedents or should it be guided mostly by a sense of fairness and justice?
60% What’s written in the constitution
30% It should be guided by fairness and justice
11% Not sure.
Also of note is the crosstabs:
While 82% of voters who [...]

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