Newsmax RSS FeedThu, 23 May 2013 11:41:31 EDTEarly in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolph says: "Although the parties have not raised it, one issue needs to be resolved before we turn to the merits of the case."Wed, 22 May 2013 10:07:51 EDTLeaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government's large capacity for misbehavior.Wed, 15 May 2013 16:15:12 EDTThe burglary occurred in 1972, the climax came in 1974, but 40 years ago this week — May 17, 1973 — the Senate Watergate hearings began exploring the nature of Richard Nixon's administration.Thu, 09 May 2013 16:05:21 EDTThirty-one months ago Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell affronted the media and other custodians of propriety by saying something common-sensical.Mon, 06 May 2013 11:46:56 EDT"The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex," James Madison wrote.Fri, 03 May 2013 09:11:16 EDTPeople who talk incessantly often talk imprecisely, and Barack Obama, who is as loquacious as he is impressed with his verbal dexterity, has talked himself into a corner concerning Syria and chemical weapons.Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:19:45 EDTRep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the Financial Services Committee, has told Richard Cordray not to bother. This is part of the recent evidence that government is getting some adult supervision. Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:46:33 EDTTwo of the three most infamous Supreme Court decisions were erased by events.Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:27:36 EDTAmerica's most interesting development since November is the Republican Party becoming more interesting. Consider the congressman from Grand Rapids, Mich., who occupies the seat once held by Gerald Ford, embodiment of vanilla Republicanism.Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:39:29 EDTThe regulatory, administrative state, which progressives champion, is generally a servant of the strong, for two reasons. It responds to financially powerful and politically sophisticated factions. And it encourages rent-seekers to exploit opportunities for concentrated benefits and dispersed costs.Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:33:21 EDTFrom Tom Paine's "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social justice.Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:21:12 EDTShe had the eyes of Caligula and the lips of Marilyn Monroe. So said Francois Mitterrand, the last serious socialist to lead a major European nation, speaking of Margaret Thatcher, who helped bury socialism as a doctrine of governance.Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:28:59 EDTThe real vocation of some people entrusted with delivering primary and secondary education is to validate this proposition: The three R's — formerly reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic — now are racism, reproduction, and recycling. Especially racism. Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:41:44 EDTAs the unendurable monotony of the offseason ends, celebrate baseball's return with mental calisthenics.Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:34:44 EDT"President Obama has arguably established the authority of the president to intervene militarily virtually anywhere without the consent or the approval of Congress, at his own discretion and for as long as he wishes." Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:10:22 EDTBecause of the grotesquely swollen place the presidency now occupies in the nation's governance and consciousness, we are never not preoccupied with presidential campaigning. The Constitution's Framers would be appalled. Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:18:59 EDTThe Defense of Marriage Act is an exception to the rule that a law's title is as uninformative about the law's purpose as the titles of Marx Brothers movies are about those movies' contents.Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:00:53 EDTWhen on March 26 the Supreme Court hears oral arguments about whether California's ban on same-sex marriages violates the constitutional right to "equal protection of the laws," these arguments will invoke the intersection of law and social science.Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:59:16 EDTWhen asked to explain the brisk pace of his novels, Elmore Leonard said, "I leave out the parts that people skip." You will not want to skip anything in William Zinsser's short essays written for the American Scholar magazine's website.Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:41:02 EDTRodney Francis is insufficiently ambitious. The pastor of the Washington Tabernacle Baptist Church in St. Louis has entered the fray over guns, violence, and humanity's fallen nature with a plan for a "buyback" of children's toy guns.