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• The State of Higher Education: Who Was Montesquieu?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 819
  Every once in a while one gets an insight into the sad state of higher education in the United States. Back in 2008, when my agent was attempting to market the manuscript of what recently appeared in two companion volumes under the titles Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, ...
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• Supreme Court Exceeded its Mandate: Asma Jahingir

  
  Sherryx's Weblog — Authority: 106
  ’عدلیہ دائرہ کار سے تجاوز کر گئی ہے‘ علی سلمان بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، لاہور عدلیہ کا کام ارکانِ پارلیمان کی اخلاقیات کی جانچ پڑتال نہیں پاکستان انسانی حقوق کمشن کی ...
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• May Congress Regulate the Loudness of Television Commercials?

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 473
       Loud television commercials are a problem at our house.  During television shows my wife and I tell the kids "Turn it up!" because we cant hear as well as they do- at the volume they are comfortable with the shows sound like mumbling to us.  But when the commercials come on they are so loud we all ...
  4 days ago

• ACORN funding cut, Judge Nina Gershon, December 14, 2009, Open Thread, Left hypocracy, Separation of powers, Judicial out of control, US Constitution

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 559
  I have been reading and analyzing the ruling from US District Court Judge Nina Gershon, the complaint filed by ACORN attorneys and associated legal opinions and definitions. Judge Gershon, appointed by Bill Clinton, has a far left liberal view of the world and this comes through in her decisions. How convenient and ...
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• The Long View: How the President called the public’s bluff

  
  Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose — Authority: 506
  The Long View How the President called the public’s bluff By Manuel L. Quezon III Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 23:46:00 12/13/2009 CAROLYNN ARGUILLAS, reporting in MindaNews on Dec. 9, detailed how justice slowed down after martial law was imposed in Maguindanao. Lt. Gen. Raymundo ...
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• Earmark And Healthcare Wars: Ron Paul vs Jeff Flake

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 514
  A recent article in the Washington Examiner by John Labeaume details the differing approaches to earmarks that two of most libertarian members of Congress have. This difference came out in a vote on an amendment that Flake wrote to H.R. 3791 which was the Fire Grants Reauthorization Act of 2009. The Flake amendment ...
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• A Runaway Judiciary & Gubernatorial Authority

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 139
  After having lunch with Steve Deace of WHO Radio on Tuesday, he got me thinking runaway judiciaries.  They are, by and large, a barrier to implementing conservative principles legislatively and in executive policy.  Obviously the big elephant in the room in Iowa is the April 3, 2008 ruling by the Iowa Supreme ...
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• Breaking: Judge Enjoins Congress from Cutting Off ACORNs Supply of Shakedown Money

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  A Clinton-appointed judge, Im told. Here is a PDF of the decision. ACORN has claimed the cutoff constitutes a Bill of Attainder, which is frankly silly, I think (although I think the Volokh guys argued, somewhat persuasively, this was a plausible finding). The judge claims, weirdly, that there is a separation of ...
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• Somnath Chatterjee speaks out against judicial activism

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee has said the lines demarcating the jurisdiction of different organs of the state have got blurred due to “judicial activism”, and added that none of the arms should go beyond the role assigned to it by the constitution.He said the framers of the ...
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• Richard Cheney and American Exceptionalism

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 473
       In a recent interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News, former Vice-President Richard Cheney referred to President Barack Obama as "this guy who doesnt fully understand or share that view of American exceptionalism that I think most of us believe in," and stated that it would give "aid and comfort to the ...
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• Big Out-of-Control Government Has Had Better Days at the Supreme Court

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 753
  This morning at the Supreme Court, the federal government argued for the continued existence of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB, pronounced peek-a-boo) — and by extension the nefarious financial regulatory scheme known as Sarbanes-Oxley.  Cato filed a brief supporting a free market ...
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• Tiger Woods refusing to talk to the police ≈ Desiree Rogers refusing to talk to Congress.

  
  Althouse — Authority: 716
  Maureen Dowd doesnt really have anything new to say about Tiger , Tiger may have been the greatest pro golfer but he was an amateur adulterer. His puffed-up ego led him to leave an electronic trail with a string of buffed and puffed babes. Like so many politicians before him, Tiger ignored the obvious rule: Never get ...
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• The Six Principles of The United States Constitution

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 568
      The six principles of the United States Constitution         Principle Description Examples Popular Sovereignty The people of the United States have the power; but, those chosen to govern are representatives of the people. 1. 26th Amendment: When they Changed the voting age ...
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• CURL: After dinner disaster, a serving of cold crow

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  This time, they were actually invited – in fact, they were the guests of honor – but they didn’t bother to show up. Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the Northern Virginia couple and reality-television show wannabes who crashed a White House state dinner last week, skipped an invite to appear Thursday before a ...
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• White House Blocks Congressional Party Crasher Testimony

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 688
  In yet another example of a change of administrations not leading to a change in behavior, the Obama White House is refusing to allow Congress to question the social secretary on the matter of the “party crashers.” Desiree Rogers, the White House Social Secretary, left after a preview for the state dinner ...
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• White House invokes separation of powers clause to protect Obama’s social secretary

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, Dec.3 (ANI): The White House on Wednesday invoked the separation of powers to keep Desiree Rogers, President Obama’s social secretary, from testifying on Capitol Hill about how a couple of aspiring reality television show celebrities crashed a state dinner for the Indian Prime Minister last week.“I ...
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• Most Transparent Admin Evah! Blocks Testimony On Party Crashers

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 674
  OK, we are a little over 10 months since George Bush left office and Mr. Transformational HopeNchange took over, but, I think we can still use the old “just imagine if the Bush White House had done this. The freakout would be amazing:” The White House on Wednesday invoked the separation of powers to keep ...
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• Post-hoc constitutional review à la française

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 479
  Post-hoc constitutional review is finally coming to France . As many comparatists know, constitutional review of laws has hitherto been limited to abstract review before laws are adopted, and it has only been about 20 years since the right to request such review was enlarged such that a group of 60 or more senators ...
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