Tag: Constitution

Obama continues to expand the president’s war powers

Timothy P. Carney · September 1, 2013 9:00 am

President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, left, speaks about the crisis in Syria in the Rose Garden of the White House on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013 in Washington. Obama says he has decided that the United States should take military action against Syria in response to a deadly chemical weapons attack. But he says he will seek congressional authorization for the use of force. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama puts brakes on growth of presidential war powers

Timothy P. Carney · August 31, 2013 4:00 am

A government ethics and accountability group wants to know what the Department of Justice is hiding. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

CREW sues to make Justice Department unit’s opinions public

Kelly Cohen · August 29, 2013 4:00 am

Civil liberties may not survive the ‘Gorgon Stare’

Gene Healy · August 27, 2013 4:00 am

Det. Anthony Mannuzza, left, and Police Officer Robert Martin, right, simulate a street stop during a training session at the New York Police Department's training facility on June 20, 2012. (AP File)

‘Stop and frisk’ doesn’t target minorities, it protects them

Michael Barone · August 21, 2013 4:00 am

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote that compulsory union fees "constitute a form of compelled speech and association that imposes a significant impingement on First Amendment rights." (AP File)

Right-to-work gets its day in court

Sean Higgins · August 20, 2013 4:00 am

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau approved a $167,000 training program in "consumer law" to agency employees, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch. (Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

CFPB counters firm’s suit with charges of illegal fees, deceiving consumers

Richard Pollock · August 20, 2013 4:00 am

Nuclear-waste delays force big payouts by government

Energy and Environment

Nuclear-waste delays force big payouts by government

Luke Rosiak · August 15, 2013 4:00 am

A constitutional cure for what ails us

Cal Thomas · August 15, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

For Obama, words conceal the indefensible

Gene Healy · August 13, 2013 4:00 am

Washington Secrets

Day 1, Number 1: Mark Levin’s ‘Liberty Amendments’ tops Amazon on debut

Paul Bedard · August 13, 2013 4:00 am

Government 101 with a geeky Texas lawyer from Cuba via Colorado and Washington, D.C.

Beltway Confidential

Government 101 with a geeky Texas lawyer from Cuba via Colorado and Washington, D.C.

Mark Tapscott · August 9, 2013 4:00 am