Category: Federal Power

James Comey: Jilted Lover or Spineless Chump?

by sloopyinca | Jun 8, 2017 | Beefcake, Big Government, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Deep State, Executive Branch, Federal Power, N/A, Politics, Right to Repair | 265

Comey is gutless or Comey is grinding his axe. I’ve made my decision. Please discuss yours in the comments.

The Nation Misses The Point on Counterterrorism

by sloopyinca | Jun 1, 2017 | Education, Federal Power, First Amendment, Immigration, National Security, Opinion, Politics, Rant, Religion, Rule of Law, Society | 134

I have no doubt that Ariana Grande means well, but she’s dead wrong. Inclusiveness is no strategy to fight terrorism. It is a strategy to offer people an opportunity to assimilate to an enlightened western culture.

The man who fought a blacklist and killed the First Amendment (it got better)

by The Fusionist | May 16, 2017 | Constitution, Federal Power, First Amendment, History, Liberty, Media, Regulation, Supreme Court | 206

Things were different in many ways a century ago, but in one respect it was like all places at all...

Tuesday Afternoon Links

by jesse.in.mb | May 9, 2017 | Crime, Daily Links, Drugs, Federal Power, Food & Drink, Science, Technology | 279

Get your white hots, your Mellow Yellow, and salt potatoes here in the links.

Separation of college and sex

by The Fusionist | May 8, 2017 | Big Government, Constitution, Crime, Education, Federal Power, Gender, Higher Education, History, Opinion, Rant, Regulation, Sexuality, Society, Womyn | 97

I’ve just finished The Campus Rape Frenzy, by K. C. Johnson and Stuart Taylor, Jr. The...

Mormons and the Bill of Rights, Part Three, Shoot-em-up edition

by The Fusionist | May 1, 2017 | Constitution, Crime, Federal Power, Guns, History, Religion, Supreme Court | 51

Let Bart and Biff explain it for you.

Mormons and the Bill of Rights, Part Two – The dirty books episode

by The Fusionist | Apr 20, 2017 | Art, Big Government, Congress, Constitution, Economy, Executive Branch, Federal Power, First Amendment, History, Politics, Religion | 42

I found a way to simultaneously discuss sex and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.

Mormons and the Bill of Rights, Part One – Too Many Wives

by The Fusionist | Apr 17, 2017 | Big Government, Children, Congress, Constitution, Federal Power, First Amendment, History, Religion, Supreme Court | 136

Hiram and Prudence and Elizabeth and Alice and Jennifer

Looking into their hearts and fighting harder (Fourth and final episode of the Berger trilogy)

by The Fusionist | Apr 5, 2017 | Big Government, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Federal Power, First Amendment, History, Religion, Supreme Court | 138

“Don’t worry, Mr. Bingham, we’ll take good care of your Fourteenth Amendment while you’re away in Japan.”

Being An Account of My Most Arduous Attempts to Establish a Relationship with International Jewry

by Gojira | Apr 4, 2017 | Big Government, Congress, Constitution, Deep State, Economy, Federal Power, Finance, Jews, National Security, Rant, Regulation | 145

In which Gorjira persists. All for you people. I said it–you people.

Raoul Berger, Originalism and the Bill of Rights, Part Three – Nixon, with Berger and Fries

by The Fusionist | Apr 3, 2017 | Big Government, Congress, Constitution, Executive Branch, Federal Power, History, National Security, Politics, Supreme Court | 65

Tax resistance as treason? – Who gets to snoop on whom? – Impeachment

Raoul Berger, Originalism, and the Bill of Rights, Part Two – Special Stripping Episode

by The Fusionist | Mar 30, 2017 | Big Government, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Executive Branch, Federal Power, History, Supreme Court | 39

I know I promised you some Nixon in this episode, but maybe the stripping will distract you.

Trump Wiretapping May Actually be a Thing…and it Looks Nasty!

by Guest Contributor | Mar 28, 2017 | Executive Branch, Federal Power, Opinion | 225

Trump Lotto of The Unforgiving Shadow looks at the Trump wiretapping allegations and the motivations behind it

Raoul Berger, Originalism, and the Bill of Rights, Part One – Music and Mussolini

by The Fusionist | Mar 27, 2017 | Constitution, Cops, Federal Power, First Amendment, History, Religion | 118

The first in a series of articles about the legal scholar Raoul Berger (1901-2000), a central figure in the originalist movement. TRIGGER WARNING: Violins.

The slaver who became a champion of liberty – or did he?

by The Fusionist | Mar 22, 2017 | Big Government, Constitution, Federal Power, History, Politics, Racism, Supreme Court | 61

The story of John Archibald Campbell

The Derponomicon: Part 3

by Derpetologist | Mar 22, 2017 | Big Government, Federal Power, Society | 199

Derpetologist continues his “Interview With A Progpire” and makes a titillating revelation.

To Decide Where to Put Hospitals

by SP | Mar 19, 2017 | Big Government, Federal Power, Society | 134

Wherein a bureaucracy created to count heads once a decade finds an obnoxious way to justify its existence the rest of the time.

Horace Flack – The state official whose scholarship pressured the states to obey the Bill of Rights (with Southern Gothic backstory)

by The Fusionist | Mar 17, 2017 | Constitution, Education, Federal Power, History, Opinion, Politics | 108

The Fusionist looks into a Southerner with a dark family secret, whose scholarship showed that the Bill of Rights was meant to apply to the states – versus some Bill-of-Rights-ignoring Yankees. In constitutional politics, sometimes Frankfurter bites down on you.

When the Iron Laws Turn on Regulators

by Brett L | Mar 16, 2017 | Big Government, Executive Branch, Federal Power, Politics | 108

What happens when you give a populist and a bunch of guys who have been friend-zoned by the Republican party the nearly unlimited Executive Power the President wields today? The Iron Laws still apply.

Use This One Weird Trick to Create Your Own Monopoly

by Guest Contributor | Mar 15, 2017 | Big Government, Federal Power, Opinion, Science | 183

The disturbingly named “We Are Tulpa” examines the folly of Obamacare.

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