In today’s Oregonian, Charles Krauthammer says there are two arguments for gay marriage — empathy and rights. President Obama started with the case from empathy and moved quickly to rights. But he also says it should be up to the states. Krauthammer argues that he can’t have it both ways. If it’s a right, it [...]
For the last two decades while politicians have been multiplying regulations at an astonishing rate and thereby compromising economic liberties, a small public interest law firm in Washington, D.C., has been quietly tugging the courts in a different direction. For an informative and inspiring interview with the leader of this effort, see today’s “Weekend Interview” [...]
There is much debate and litigation over the federal government’s expanding role in health care and health insurance. Meanwhile, American liberties are being quietly eroded by the steady expansion of federal criminal law — an area traditionally of primary concern to the states. Not only have the number of federal criminal laws grown dramatically in [...]
James Taranto explains in today’s Wall Street Journal how the phone hacking scandal in Britain could lead to more efforts to regulate U.S. political campaigns and the media, particularly those like Fox News who don’t stick to the liberal world view.
