In 1975, the right to own a handgun in Washington, D.C. was illegal. In addition, all other firearms such as rifles and shotguns had to be “unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock,” making them useless in the…
In my commentary yesterday, I posed the question about how a President Trump would deal with a Democrat-controlled Senate led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer–a scenario that grows ever more likely as we approach November–and how it will most certainly…
Obamacare has been in the news a lot lately. This past Friday the Supreme Court ruled that Obama was guilty of misappropriating funds as he used his pen and phone to creatively finance an Obamacare subsidy Congress had elected not…
In a speech last week at Brooklyn Law School, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the nation’s highest court needs more strict constitutionalists in order to protect the Republic. Wait a minute. *checking my notes* I’m sorry. That’s…
When he was the minority leader of the Senate–a position he’s likely to return to in November–Mitch McConnell attempted to explain his inability to get anything done with these words: “Today, Democrats not only have the White House, they have…
“It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.” Do you know who said those words? If you’re thinking it was some radical right-wing Republican, you would be wrong. These are the words of George Meany, the former president of…
In the hours following Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court following the death of Antonin Scalia, Republicans reiterated their plan to postpone taking any action until after the November election. Meanwhile, the Democrats…
