Shocking News – Big Labor Implicated In Blagojevich Arrest
According to the federal indictment, Blagojevich allegedly suggested a pay-for-play agreement with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the nation’s fastest-growing labor group. Under the alleged proposal, he would receive a posh position within the SEIU following his term as Governor in exchange for filling the open Senate seat of President-Elect Barack Obama with someone especially friendly to the organization...[more]
Details of presidential limos are kept under careful, understandable wraps by the car maker and its development partner, the Secret Service, even long after the limos exit service. The new one, while badged as a Cadillac, appears, based on photographs of testing and the reports of car experts, to be built on a GMC 2500-series truck frame, and is likely to be the largest, heaviest such presidential limo yet...[more]
With George W. Bush set to leave the White House in just a month, presidential historians and political pundits have turned their attention to assessing the legacy that will be left by America’s 43rd President...[more]
FreedomCast: Big Labor’s Assault on the Secret Ballot
Recently, Steven J. Law, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, joined CFIF’s Renee Giachino to discuss the deceptively-named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), how its passage would upend decades of settled labor law and increase the risk of coercion to employees...[more]
Why Is President Bush Pardoning Drug Felons, But Not Decorated Border Patrol Agents?
Back in 2004, when President Bush was re-elected, bitter minions of the Angry Left began slapping garish bumper stickers reading “1-20-09” on their hypocritically carbon-emitting automobiles...[more]
Pick up the morning newspaper or turn on the evening newscast and the story that you’re bound to see is that America is facing an economic recession of historic proportions. Consumer spending is down and unemployment is up, but there is one item that Americans are rushing to buy -- guns...[more]
The media’s “no drama” nickname is sticking as President-elect Obama announces his cabinet and other senior-level appointments. Indeed, other than speculation as to which notable individual will get which executive department, there have been few controversies about Obama’s selections...[more]
Thomas Friedman Openly and Shamelessly Advocates Authoritarian Implementation of Environmentalist Agenda...[more]
Don’t Take Your Gun to Bloomberg’s Town
Not to be too blunt about this, but we think New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a twit...[more]
Proposed Bailout Would Save Big Labor, Not Automakers
Current discussion regarding a potential bailout generally ignores the restructuring option, and presents a false dilemma. Namely, either temporarily prop up the Big Three by throwing more good bailout money after bad, or instead allow it to simply die...[more]
The New Old Clinton Administration
When Hillary Clinton became President-elect Clinton...[more]
Leaders? Conservatives Need Followers
The punditocracy of the mainstream media is busy punditating on how the Presidential election effects conservatism and who will lead conservatives, Republicans or both, around, through or out of the political wilderness...[more]
Comedian turned Democratic politician Al Franken had little to laugh about on Election night. By dawn the next morning -- after all of the votes were supposedly counted in his race against Republican Norm Coleman for one of Minnesota’s U.S. Senate seats -- the returns showed that Franken had lost narrowly by just 725 votes...[more]
Barack Obama’s Inauspicious Debut
In One Week, Obama Insults Nancy Reagan, Witnesses a Record Stock Plummet and Convenes the Chicago Machine and Clinton Cronies – This Is “Change?”...[more]
Has Colorblind America Elected a Colorblind President?
On Election Day, voters overwhelmingly answered all of the questions raised for months by political pundits concerning whether race still plays a prominent – or even leading role – in American politics. It doesn’t … or at least this presidential election was pretty good evidence that it doesn’t anymore...[more]
We Couldn’t Have Had Reagan in 1980 Without First Having Carter In 1976
Like clockwork, overeager liberals believe that the answer is “yes.” Following Barack Obama’s closer-than-predicted 53% to 46% victory this week (during a year in which political tides should have created a twenty-point margin), liberals are already making that claim...[more]
When Big Labor Wins, American Workers and Students Lose
Why is it that overly-unionized state economies like Michigan's stagger, whereas states like Florida that are freer from Big Labor's stifling hand flourish?...[more]
Who Is Rashid Khalidi and Why Should You Care?
On Tuesday of this week, John McCain's Presidential campaign made an unusual demand: that the Los Angeles Times release a video of a party that Barack Obama attended in 2003...[more]
Memo To Mainstream Media From Barack Obama
As we all know, words can be hurtful, and many (far more than you might immediately think) are codes for racism. During the campaign, most of you voluntarily restrained your use of hurtful words, for which I am deeply grateful...[more]
It's Not All About the Supremes
Americans will not only decide who gets at least a four-year lease on the White House, but will also indirectly be choosing who will get lifetime seats on the federal bench...[more]
CFIF Expands Alabama Public Education Effort
The Center for Individual Freedom (“CFIF”) last week expanded its public education effort in Alabama by launching a new television ad that further addresses judicial and crime-related issues in the state...[more]
The Inevitable Sure Thing, Guaranteed, You Betcha
The race for the Presidency is over, finished, in the bag for Barack Obama. The polls say so. The pundits amplify the polls. Why, it’s going to be a landslide of epic proportions...[more]
Colin Powell’s Endorsement: No Profile in Courage
Appearing this week on NBC’s Meet the Press, which is the equivalent of slow-pitch softball for anyone who criticizes conservatives, former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced something that he apparently thought would surprise anyone with a pulse – that he supports Senator Barack Obama. To anyone outside the most remote areas of the Amazon, however, this was about as unanticipated as Madonna’s latest divorce...[more]
Is the American Era Over? Please.
Across the world, and even here in the United States, leftist commentators gleefully pronounce this the end of the American Era. Our best days are behind us, they happily shout...[more]
Taxing Joe the Plumber (and You and Everyone Who Has Anything To Tax)
It is now abundantly, if not absolutely, clear that Barack Obama will misrepresent his long-standing association with ACORN, now, finally, embroiled in the most extensive voter registration scandal ever investigated...[more]
Justice David Souter insisted in dissent that there was “no evidence” of voter “fraud” in Indiana, just as there was “a dearth of evidence … in any other part of the country.”...[more]
Will John McCain Really Tax Your Health Care For the First Time?
At our very core, we conservatives remain steadfastly – and justifiably – opposed to more taxes...[more]
President John F. Kerry Announces Presidential Race Is Over
President Kerry, who won the 2004 Presidential race in exit polls before he lost it when the real votes were cast, spoke from the sidewalk in front of his (wife’s) Boston mansion, sometimes referred to as the Boston White House, even though it is red brick...[more]
There was big news on Tuesday, but it didn’t come from either John McCain or Barack Obama in the presidential debate between the two held in Nashville, Tennessee. Rather, it came from a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C...[more]
CFIF Launches Public Education Effort in Alabama
The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) today launched a public education effort in Alabama designed to educate the public about important judicial and crime-related issues in the state...[more]
Fewer Crap Sandwiches, Please!
U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader John Boehner this week referred to the original proposal for the bailout of the economy as a “crap sandwich.”...[more]
Clergy Stand Up For Free Speech
Across America, Pastors Assert First Amendment Rights Where They May Be Most Precious – In the Pulpit...[more]
Barack Obama Is Lying – Lying – About “Equal Pay” For Women
Senator Obama Sinks to New Low in Desperate Attempt to Deceive Swing Voting Block...[more]
John McCain is uniquely, consistently, irascibly, overwhelmingly, defiantly, infuriatingly (add fifteen of your own adverbs here) unpredictable. He has been all his life; he will be all his life...[more]
Early this week, we thought the lowest might be the Obama campaign’s attack on John McCain’s inability to use computers and email, disregarding McCain’s war injuries that render such body motor movements awkward and painful. Only a few commentators made the leap to the truly important point: If sending email is Obama’s criteria for Oval Office competence, then perhaps His Cerebralness needs a remedial course in Presidency 101, wherein such techno-prowess is not once discussed, but the need for secure presidential communication and presidential prioritization are...[more]
The Problem with Taxing “The Top 5%:” Most of Them Are Small Businesses
Raising Taxes on “Top 5%” Would Punish Small Employers and Ordinary American Workers...[more]
Let's declare 'energy freedom' on Oct. 1
By Sen. Jim DeMint: Did you know that in just a few short weeks on Oct. 1, Americans could be celebrating American Energy Freedom Day? That's the day the bans on oil shale and offshore drilling for oil and natural gas will expire...[more]
Media Politics: Stuck on a Bridge to Nowhere
If John McCain is elected President of the United States, he will need to thank, first and foremost, the mainstream media...[more]
How the Candidates Compare on Judges
In some cases, wartime leadership is obviously a President’s most enduring legacy. But in most instances, a President’s Supreme Court and other judicial appointments constitute his – or someday, her – most lasting effect...[more]
Leave Appointment of Judges to the Lawyers?
Only our nation’s leading and largest organization of lawyers could have the audacity to suggest that they should be in charge of selecting just who should, and should not, sit on the federal bench. But that’s just what the American Bar Association did a little more than three weeks ago...[more]
The liberal assault on Sarah Palin went to Defcon Five Squared within seconds of John McCain’s announcement that she would be his Vice Presidential running mate...[more]
Will Sarah Palin’s Energy Wisdom Be Contagious?
Nowhere is this more true than with regard to the critical matter of energy policy. After all, despite burdensome fuel prices and ever-increasing dependence upon foreign oil, both major candidates continue to oppose domestic drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), they both bow to the false prophets of human-caused climate change and they both favor destructive carbon cap-and-trade legislation...[more]
CFIF Launches Public Education Effort in West Virginia including TV and radio ads
Specifically, the ads highlight a $10 million settlement that West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw secured intended to help workers and the elderly...[more]
Despite the best efforts of celebrity journalism (Us magazine), left-wing bloggers (The Huffington Post, complete with five investigatory photos) and suspected commie cable channels (CNN, regurgitating The Huffington Post), the 2008 presidential election is not going to turn on whether John McCain wears $520 Ferragamo shoes...[more]
Fiction: Domestic Drilling Won’t Have Impact for Ten Years or More
Recent Moves toward Greater Domestic Drilling Have Dramatically Reduced Energy Prices in Just One Month...[more]
Trial Lawyer Lobby Salivates at Prospect of Obama White House
As the nation inches toward the November elections and a possible Obama White House, few groups are salivating quite like the trial lawyers lobby...[more]
Media Bias vs. Money: Which Is the Bigger Problem in Politics?
For years, decades really, the mainstream media have been telling the American people that money is a gargantuan problem in politics. Some politicians (John McCain and Barack Obama spring to mind) have said the same and moved to regulate same, calling their self-protection racket “campaign finance reform” while holding as many fundraisers as can be scheduled...[more]
Time and again, we’ve explained why we’re against campaign finance “reform.” Quite simply, not only do such restrictions violate core free speech and association rights, but all too often our elected representatives manipulate campaign finance rules to advantage themselves and disadvantage their opponents...[more]
Democrats Impede U.S. on Energy
By Rick Santorum: Every politician knows Americans want relief at the pump for their own sake and the sake of the broader economy. The Senate's continued inaction on this issue provides an insight into how the two parties hope to appeal to anxious voters and, more important, how they view high energy prices...[more]
Inflated Tires Are Not a National Energy Policy
Now that John McCain has ever so slyly maneuvered Paris Hilton into the Presidential race to drain feminist votes from Barack Obama, we can only hope her stunning announcement video – delivered pool side in a stylin’ leopard print swimsuit – will elevate the debate...[more]
Big Unions Continue to Dock Employees’ Wages for Liberal Political Causes
Imagine for a moment that your boss forcibly docked your paycheck each week in order to contribute to politicians or candidates whom he or she favored, and whom you opposed...[more]
The Fraying Robes of the Messiah
Now that the shiny floating object that is Barack Obama has won the votes of the European Union, the Prime Minister of Iraq, the people of the world and a variety of terrorists, he has descended back to the U.S., with only minor residual issues from the trip to rent his robes...[more]
The Deepening Detainee Disaster
It was less than two months ago that a bare majority of the Supreme Court ruled that enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay naval base could proceed with lawsuits challenging their detention in our federal courts...[more]
The Numbers Are In, Again – The Rich Pay More Than Their “Fair Share”
Latest IRS Data Shows that Wealthier Americans’ Portion of Taxes Actually Exceeds Their Portion of Income...[more]
Media Reports and Illustrates Liberal Bias
Conservatives have long known that the mainstream media sees -- and then tells the rest of us about -- the world through a filter of liberal bias. After all, not only do conservatives read the bias in the morning newspaper and hear the bias on the evening news, but also survey after survey has shown that our nation’s newsrooms are filled with self-identified liberals and registered Democrats. In other words, the media’s liberal bias isn’t news, it’s just reality...[more]
D.C. Disses Supremes on Gun Law
It shouldn’t have come as any surprise that the District of Columbia decided that it can and will continue to all but completely disarm its law-abiding citizens -- not even when it’s less than three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled otherwise...[more]
Political Cartoons: Let’s Hear It for “Tasteless and Offensive”
We wish to join those condemning (and thus calling further attention to) that despicable New Yorker cover caricature of Michelle and Barack Obama. How could people do such a thing?...[more]
Colombia Provides Valuable Lesson to the World — and Deserves American Support
Conservative President Uribe Proves that Only Force Defeats Terrorism, While American Liberals Continue to Disdain America’s Friend...[more]
A Conyers Investigates. A Conyers Is Investigated
U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Democrat of Michigan, likes to investigate folks, almost all of whom work or have worked in the Executive Branch currently administered by that other political party...[more]
The Supreme Ricochet Has Begun
The landmark decision that resulted reflected just this balance -- announcing “that the Second Amendment conferred an individual right to keep and bear arms,” while reserving judgment on other firearm restrictions and regulations not at issue in the D.C. case...[more]
Congress Plays the Blame Game, Does Little Else for Energy
By Robert Taylor: Although Congress may not be doing much to solve the energy crisis, they are managing to point a lot of fingers. Its target du jour to paint as the hapless scapegoat for the now record-high oil prices: oil speculators...[more]
CFIF Vows Litigation if W. Va. Legislature Moves to Further Restrict First Amendment Rights
The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) today issued a strong warning to the West Virginia Legislature, which, during its special session, is currently working to further restrict speech and association rights guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...[more]
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of An Individual’s Right to Keep and Bear Arms
The Supreme Court this week ruled that the District of Columbia’s ban on most gun ownership is unconstitutional. In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller that individuals have a right to keep and bear arms for self-defense...[more]
The Uncanny Numerology of Politics
If John McCain is elected President, he has promised to give $300 million to someone who develops a better car battery...[more]
Erasing the Constitution Through Evolution
We know our prediction may be surprising, and may even be criticized as alarmist. Nevertheless, mark our words, Wednesday was the day when five justices on the highest court in the land made it clear that eventually — and probably sooner rather than later — they will declare capital punishment unconstitutional … and not just for this crime or that one, but across the board...[more]
Here at the Center for Individual Freedom, our unwavering opposition to public campaign financing is well-established. Indeed, along with campaign finance reform generally, it is one of the issues that has most animated our organization since its founding. The First Amendment explicitly states that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech," but campaign-finance laws do precisely that...[more]
A Supreme Mess of Impracticalities
Last week, a bare majority of the justices on the highest court in the land called what appears to be the final strike on the administration’s policy of arresting suspected terrorists abroad and detaining them at the Guantanamo Bay naval base...[more]
CFIF Praises GAO for Sustaining Boeing Protest
The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) today praised the United States Government Accountability Office for its announcement yesterday upholding Boeing’s protest against the Air Force’s aerial refueling tanker contract decision...[more]
Obama Campaign Makes Muslim Supporters Disappear
Two Muslim women at Barack Obama’s rally in Detroit on Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women’s headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate...[more]
Troop Combat Losses Plummet to Lowest Since Invasion Itself
Successful Troop Surge has Crushed al Qaeda and Pacified Iraq, but Obama and Liberals Continue to Deny It...[more]
First came fire. Then the wheel. Then, shortly thereafter in relative terms, the internal combustion engine, the light bulb, airplanes, air conditioning, the Internet, really cool kitchen equipment and lots of other good stuff...[more]
Clinton’s Campaign Cash Conundrum
Okay, we admit it -- we think it’s deliciously delightful that so many high profile “reformers” get caught by the campaign finance traps they set for themselves...[more]
Senate Debates a Climate Bill that Has Already Failed in Europe that would raise gasoline prices, which are already surpassing $4 per gallon...[more]
The Shape of Presidential Things to Come
Okay, we told you so. Hillary Clinton is not going to be President…this time. She is not even going to be the nominee of her party…yet...[more]
So, it’s all but official. Barack Obama is the Democratic Party’s nominee to be the next President of the United States...[more]
Center for Individual Freedom Launches "America’s Tanker" Web site
“By awarding this critical weapons contract to a European-built system from a European corporation, the Air Force has essentially outsourced our national security to a company that is owned in part by governments that have opposed our foreign and military policies and that have ties to some of our nation’s adversaries,” said Timothy Lee, CFIF’s director of Legal and Public Affairs...[more]
Four-dollar-a-Gallon Gas? Put Nitrogen in Your Tires. Maybe.
Seeking a brief, warm-weather respite from the overheated yelping of politicians, we have become intrigued with the latest automotive commodity, guaranteed to, well, you decide...[more]
Trying Her Best to ‘Save the World’ … Illegally
It might not be as colorful as Alanis Morissette’s “black fly in your chardonnay,” but Nancy Pelosi’s television turn in a climate change advertisement is ironic in so many ways -- not the least of which is that, in the process, the Speaker of the House may have violated the very campaign finance “reform” laws she has long supported...[more]
Astonishing Obama Video: “I Will Slow Development of Future Combat Systems”
In Video Statement, Senator Obama Inexplicably Pledges to Unilaterally Jeopardize American Military Superiority...[more]
31,000 Scientists Shatter the Myth of a “Scientific Consensus” on Global Warming
Environmental extremists routinely assert a “scientific consensus” that global warming is occurring, and that human activity somehow causes it. This week, however, over 31,000 scientists spoke up and reduced that myth to a smoldering rubble...[more]
As the saying goes, some of our favorite thinkers are academics -- rational, careful and insightful...[more]
Obama and Clinton Vote Against Oil Independence – Again
Liberal political leaders, including two who happen to be running for President, constantly claim to seek American oil independence. Invariably, however, they turn around and thwart measures to achieve precisely that...[more]
Coalition of Organizations Urges President Bush to Reconsider American Taxpayer Support for Mongolia
Increasingly-Hostile Mongolian Government Continues to Receive American Taxpayer Dollars Despite Targeting Western Interests...[more]
Political Scumbag Deathwatch: One Down, Two to Go, More in Line
It’s not even summer yet, and already politicians of all denominations are challenging former New York governor Eliot Spitzer for scumbag of the year award...[more]
In a prime time interview that aired on CBS two Sundays ago, “60 Minutes” correspondent Leslie Stahl reminded Justice Antonin Scalia that he has lamented his role on the highest court in the land. “You’ve apparently had some down times in your tenure on the court,” Stahl said. And then, Stahl read from a note Justice Scalia had written: “I am beginning to repeat myself.”...[more]
Buy Guns with Your Tax Rebate Checks
The checks are in the mail. Those would be the so-called economic stimulus, or tax rebate, checks, rushed out to about 75 percent of Americans by Congress. The checks represent a pittance of your very own money (or, in the case of those who pay little or no taxes, someone else’s money) being returned to you (or, in the case of those who pay little or no taxes, falling like manna from government, as it is supposed to, according to some of them)...[more]
Obama Wants More Supervision Of Everyone… Except Big Labor
Senator Barack Obama rests his entire campaign upon the claim that he is a “post-partisan” candidate who trumpets the slogan “change we can believe in.”...[more]
True Believers of Obama Nation will surely accept Barack Obama’s denunciation of his former minister, spiritual mentor and surrogate father Jeremiah Wright and move on down the road to hope and change with nary a further thought...[more]
Constitutional Common Sense Comes Back?
Monday was one of those days that the highest court in the land surprised no one on Main Street -- when a majority of the nine most powerful lawyers in the country simply decided what the vast majority of the American people already knew to be true...[more]
Changing Marketplace, Global Competition Require New Type of Airline
The U.S. airline industry has experienced a tumultuous flight in recent years, with 150,000 jobs and more than $29 billion lost since 2001. And now, with fuel prices rapidly on the rise, many carriers are further struggling to keep up with costs and appease disgruntled passengers...[more]
Greenpeace Founder: We Must Go Nuclear
Speaking before an audience in Boise, Idaho last week, Greenpeace Founder Dr. Patrick Moore confirmed that there is no proof that humans are causing global warming, and he wisely advocated a dramatic shift toward reliance upon nuclear power...[more]
The Center for Individual Freedom today published a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal calling on President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to “Send a Clear Message to Mongolia: Eliminate Corruption and Protect Private Property — Or Risk Losing U.S. Foreign Aid.”...[more]
McCain Stands Up For Free Trade
Youngstown, Ohio Speech Against Self-Destructive Protectionism Is A Refreshing Show Of Wisdom...[more]
Obama Is the One Only Naive Liberals Have Been Waiting For
Barack Obama sometimes utters the cryptic line, “We are the ones we have been waiting for.”...[more]
Condescending Remarks Reveal Obama’s True Feelings About Faith, Firearms and Working-Class Voters...[more]
The Waiting Game and the Stalling Game
It is never a surprise when games are played on Capitol Hill. But as fun as it is for the politicians to play the stalling game on judicial confirmations -- especially since everyone knows the name on the mailbox at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will change in less than a year -- it is excruciating for the American people, the courts and the would-be judges who, as a result, are being forced to play the waiting game...[more]
What I Heard at the Petraeus-Crocker Hearings
Seeing the mission through
By John Cornyn: America’s top military commander and chief diplomat in Iraq reported Tuesday that we are making significant progress there. They added that we cannot afford to squander our gains by losing our resolve. But was anybody really listening?...[more]
If Barack Obama is elected President of the United States, he is going to send ugly, burly men to your house and confiscate your guns, which will be melted down and reformed into windmills. All civilian ammunition will be transferred to Yucca Mountain, to be stored with nuclear waste...[more]
The High Court Retirement that Won't Change Anything
There will be a retirement when the Supreme Court of the United States ends its current term this summer. No, we aren’t saying that any one of the nine justices will be vacating a lifetime seat when they adjourn in June. Rather, the face that will change at One First Street will be on the other side of the bench -- in the press gallery...[more]
American Taxpayers Call on Congress to Stop Unconditional Debt Relief
The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) this week announced that its supporters and activists, along with other concerned taxpayers, have sent nearly 30,000 letters to Congress in the last week urging their Representatives to vote against H.R. 2634, the Jubilee Act for Responsible Lending and Expanded Debt Cancellation...[more]
Hillary’s a liar; Obama’s the Messiah. That is, at least, one of the message templates the media are using to baste the tough, aging, mold-growing political turkey that has become the contest for the presidency...[more]
CFIF, American Taxpayers Call on President Bush to Protect Western Interests in Mongolia
Nearly 35,000 Letters Sent to President Bush Expressing Concern about Backsliding on the Rule of Law, Infringement of American Property Rights and Increased Corruption...[more]
Al Gore Equates Global Warming with World War II and Civil Rights Movement, While Europe Announces Cap-and-Trade Failure...[more]
Center for Individual Freedom Condemns Air Force Tanker Contract Decision
Center for Individual Freedom president Jeffrey Mazzella today released the following statement criticizing the recent decision by the Air Force to award the aerial refueling tanker contract to EADS...[more]
CFIF Launches Federal Lawsuit Challenging the Constitutionality of West Virginia’s Election Law
CFIF filed its complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, alleging that several provisions of state law are vague and overbroad, and thus violate the First Amendment...[more]
Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos,” in which Republicans temporarily morph into Democrats for the purposes of Democratic presidential primary voting, has become so much fun for conservative political junkies that some of us have begun to hope that all the Democratic primaries will be redone just to keep the show going...[more]
Supreme Court Defends American Sovereignty Against International Assault
In a 6-3 decision, the United States Supreme Court this week rejected the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) attempt to order Texas courts to retry death row inmate Jose Medellin, a Mexican national. In so doing, the Court struck a blow for American sovereignty against unrelenting efforts to subsume domestic courts to international authorities...[more]
Five for Keeping … and Bearing
The American people dodged a bullet -- by retaining their individual right to keep and bear arms -- a week ago Tuesday. At least that was the clear impression left by a solid majority of five Supreme Court Justices during an historic oral argument in the first Second Amendment case to be heard by the highest court in the land in nearly 70 years...[more]
Rules? What Rules? This is Politics
Republicans who are falling all over themselves laughing at the vicious infighting of the Democratic Presidential candidates should get a grip on themselves and pay attention to the far more serious issue of what the Democrats are up to, at least in Florida...[more]
McCain Should Reject Dangerous Cap-and-Trade Legislation
Despite a slowing economy that may slump toward recession, unrelenting global warming alarmists continue to press carbon cap-and-trade proposals...[more]
House Should Pass Bipartisan Senate Bill to Protect America
By Senator John Cornyn: Last May, three U.S. troops were kidnapped in Iraq, south of Baghdad, by al Qaeda terrorists...[more] Has Barack Obama Jumped the Shark? After a terrible week punctuated by demoralizing defeats in Texas and Ohio, is it possible that Senator Barack Obama, until recently the darling of the fawning mainstream media and leftist elite, has "jumped the shark?"...[more] Dead Candidate... Go Hillary, Go As far as Mrs. Clinton knows, Barack Obama is not a Muslim. As far as we know, no one has ever likened Rush Limbaugh or her to a butterfly, but the political butterfly effect produced by the Texas and Ohio votes on Tuesday has rained chaos down on the mighty powerful of the Democratic Party. Order will not soon emerge...[more] What a remarkable strategy Hillary Clinton took in Tuesday's MSNBC presidential candidate debate, the last of a sum total of 20 if there is indeed any mercy in the world...[more] Groundhog Day in Europe: EU Slams American Innovation… Again Having failed to kill Microsoft in its multiple previous attempts, the European Union went back to the same old well again this week...[more] SEIU's Dirty Tricks Threaten American Prosperity and Jobs Private equity investment in the United States has recently come under attack from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)...[more] Class Action Convict Turns to Ethical Education? A little more than two weeks ago, a federal judge sentenced William Lerach to two years in prison for paying kickbacks to investors so they would be on-call plaintiffs for the disgraced and all-but disbarred class action king's securities lawsuits...[more] CFIF Joins Coalition Expressing “Deep Concern” About Lack of Action on Judicial Nominees Last week, the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) joined a coalition of 60 organizations — led by our friends at the Committee for Justice — in urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to act on President Bush's judicial nominees...[more] Obama and Clinton: Celebrating Economic Illiteracy While Senators Obama and Clinton continue to scratch, claw and bloody each other like Soviet and Hungarian waterpolo players at the 1956 Olympics, they are racing to the bottom in their dangerously anti-free market rhetoric...[more] Dirty Journalism: The New York Times Slimes John McCain Our disagreements and battles with John McCain are legion — on matters substantive and important to this country...[more] Clinton v. MSNBC: Victimization Nears Its End, Maybe MSNBC "reporter" David Shuster is among the worst of a bad bunch, in our humble opinion...[more] Internet Freedom Jeopardized by Over-Regulation The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF), a leading constitutional and free market public policy organization, today voiced its opposition to the recently released "Net Neutrality" bill sponsored by Representatives Ed Markey and Chip Pickering...[more] Why Is President Bush Attempting to Fund The Dangerous Law of the Sea Treaty? As President Bush counts down his final year in office, Americans naturally wonder whether he'll use his remaining time to advance conservative principles despite a hostile Congress, or instead seek to create a “legacy” in the minds of the literati...[more] CFIF Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Preserve the Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms In its ongoing efforts to protect rights explicitly granted by the United States Constitution, the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) this week filed an Amicus Curiae brief before the United States Supreme Court in the much-anticipated case District of Columbia, et al. v. Heller, commonly referred to as "the D.C. gun ban case."...[more] Hard Choices for Conservatives Barring the most unlikely circumstances imaginable, John McCain is going to be the nominee of the Republican Party for President. He's going to win...[more] Anna Nicole's Legal Legacy Lives Long After her Death This week marks the one year anniversary of the death of former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith...[more] Conflict of Interest in American Academy of Pediatrics Report Responding to today's publication of a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on infant exposure to phthalates, the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) today criticized the report as a document motivated more by politics than actual science...[more] Giuliani's Tax Cut Proposal: A Legacy Worth Preserving Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who became an American hero on 9/11 and regularly led the race for Republican nominee for President, withdrew from the race this week after Florida failed to resuscitate his candidacy...[more] An Open Letter to Congress: Don't Fall for “Stimulus” Fairy Tales In a letter sent to every member of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) this week joined two dozen organizations in urging caution regarding the so-called "economic stimulus" plan currently being considered in Congress...[more] If you needed to be indicted for high crimes or misdemeanors, your very expensive public relations consultant would advise you that this is as good a time to do the perp walk as any...[more] By John Yoo: War is a continuation of politics by other means, the German strategist Carl von Clausewitz famously observed in his 19th-century treatise, "On War." Clausewitz surely could never have imagined that politics, pursued through our own courts, would be the continuation of war...[more] Mainstream Media Gleefully Celebrate Nonexistent "Recession" In a poorly-concealed effort to facilitate electoral change, irresponsible mainstream media voices cannot contain themselves in prematurely celebrating a non-existent recession. [more] In the Line of Fire from Both Sides If the Second Amendment challenge to the District of Columbia's handgun ban was the silver bullet designed to target increasingly restrictive gun control laws, then the friend-of-the-court brief filed last Friday by the Solicitor General of the United States could be the bulletproof vest that protects such restrictions from constitutional peril...[more] Tax Rate Cuts, Not Tax Rebates, Stimulate the Economy As the risk of American economic recession increases and portions of the economy soften, politicians in Washington and along the campaign trail climb over themselves with stimulus proposals...[more] Mrs. Clinton Wins — and Loses — in Michigan Competing head-to-head with the nationally televised Democratic Presidential Candidate Debate and the results of the Michigan Republican Presidential Primary Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton's blowout 15-point win in the Michigan Democratic Presidential Primary got far less attention than it should have...[more] By Henry I. Miller: Feinstein's bill to ban some chemicals in toys might help rats, but it's bad for people...[more] John Edwards: Demagogue to the End n both his Iowa and New Hampshire prime time TV concession speeches, and probably on the stump as well, Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards has, with manifest stage anger drawn deeply from the well of his trial lawyer heart, lashed out regarding the case of Nataline Sarkisyan...[more] McCain to Pharmaceutical Innovators: Drop Dead Senator McCain Slurs Pharmaceutical Industry as “The Big Bad Guys” During Debate, Calling His Commitment to Free-Market Principles into Further Question...[more] Current Events: Guest Commentary Let's declare 'energy freedom' on Oct. 1 By Sen. Jim DeMint: Did you know that in just a few short weeks on Oct. 1, Americans could be celebrating American Energy Freedom Day? That's the day the bans on oil shale and offshore drilling for oil and natural gas will expire...[more] Democrats Impede U.S. on Energy By Rick Santorum: Every politician knows Americans want relief at the pump for their own sake and the sake of the broader economy. The Senate's continued inaction on this issue provides an insight into how the two parties hope to appeal to anxious voters and, more important, how they view high energy prices...[more] What I Heard at the Petraeus-Crocker Hearings By John Cornyn: America’s top military commander and chief diplomat in Iraq reported Tuesday that we are making significant progress there. They added that we cannot afford to squander our gains by losing our resolve. But was anybody really listening?...[more] House Should Pass Bipartisan Senate Bill to Protect America By Senator John Cornyn: Last May, three U.S. troops were kidnapped in Iraq, south of Baghdad, by al Qaeda terrorists...[more] By Henry I. Miller: Feinstein's bill to ban some chemicals in toys might help rats, but it's bad for people...[more] Protecting Our National Sovereignty By Senator John Cornyn: Our state, and our country, are struggling to keep up with the effects of globalization — the increasingly free flow of ideas, information, goods and capital across borders and around the world...[more] The McCain Record By Pat Toomey: Political candidates often attempt to burnish their economic policy credentials on the campaign trail. As part of an effort to provide a fair and thorough analysis of the real economic records of the major presidential candidates, the Club for Growth is issuing a series of white papers on these candidates...[more] By Bruce Herschensohn: At this writing, President Bush has yet to deliver his speech regarding future U.S. policy in Iraq, including his analysis of the Iraq Study Group's recommendations. Our enemies have already given their analysis...[more] By Cary Cardwell: “Jury tampering, collusion and witness intimidation…” A tale of civil injustice in South Texas...[more]
Seeing the mission through
Arizona's senior senator is not a consistent defender of individual freedom.
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