A Gun-Loathing President Weeps Over the Limits to Power in a Gun-Loving Country
There are limits to the government's ability to make the country other than it is, and to force citizens to bend to official will.
There are limits to the government's ability to make the country other than it is, and to force citizens to bend to official will.
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Freedom Watch's Larry Klayman claims Obama's proposed changes to gun dealer and mental health definitions violate Second Amendment rights and administrative procedure laws.
Thanks to more spending, annual deficits will grow faster than expected.
Relations are thawing, but saber-rattling continues on both sides.
U.S. v. Texas heads to SCOTUS.
There is nothing particularly special about today's political hostilities.
Calls for national political "unity" are problematic.
After decades of gradual improvement, the science of predicting election outcomes has hit an accuracy crisis.
Barack Obama's parting "moon shot" in his State of the Union is inane, but there *are* ways to do government programs right.
Is there a better way to deal with this annual exercise in empty pageantry?
Listen to me, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Rep. Thomas Massie explain why on SiriusXM Channel 121 at noon ET
One off-handed mention, and gun policy gets the (lack of) attention it deserves.
...is everything that's wrong with politics
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The South Carolina governor defended immigrants of every race and religion.
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Domestically and abroad, he has set more fires than he put out.
The income inequality obsession leads to whiplash.
...but if you don't authorize it, he'll keep doing it anyway.
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Messes for a legacy.
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They're always full of broad elementary civics class blather.
It's typical for the president not to endorse early, but it's a reminder there's no true 'successor.'
The president's townhall and New York Times op-ed piece illustrate his slipperiness.
The temptation to use the Obama model of legislating through the executive branch will become increasingly attractive to politicians and their supporters.
Likely little more than letting a narrow base know he cares, though the implications of more feckless "gun policy" choices might be alarming.
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The president is without authority to negate the congressional will, and any attempt to do so will be invalidated by the courts.
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The latest burst of birtherism is a reminder of how sad the whole meme always was.
The president boldly proclaims that good intentions matter more than results.
Obama wants to make it easier for the government to take away people's Second Amendment rights.
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Obama's announcement today uses public mass gun murder to buttress irrelevant policies, with vague promises of "more."
Despite an ongoing media boycott of White House staff photography, the president's image crafters still call the shots.
The president seeks to encourage psychiatric treatment while increasing the likelihood that it will result in the loss of Second Amendment rights.
President Obama's urgency on gun control is at odds with what people are really worried about.
Public murders committed with guns are used to try to drive gun policy, even though gun policy is powerless to prevent them.