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 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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