Post Tagged with: "Obama Administration"

by Evan Bernick On Tuesday, pressure cooker bombs designed to kill and maim transformed the Boston Marathon into what looked like a war zone. The cruel, calculating, and devastating character of this act of terror, together with evidence that the suspects hailed from a breeding ground of Islamist terror and [...]

by Brian Kogelmann When I published a response to Evan Bernick’s constitutional and moral defense of the Obama administration’s use of drones, I did not anticipate a fecund discussion to blossom. I was thus delighted to learn that my friend and colleague published a response to my response, in which [...]

Why I Still Stand Against Rand by Evan Bernick Three weeks ago, in the wake of Senator Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster, I wrote an article defending the Obama Administration’s drone policy on moral and constitutional grounds. In it, I focused primarily on the constitutionality of drone strikes. I am therefore [...]

 by Jonathan Tkachuk It’s true, different Al Qaida affiliates and extremist groups have emerged, from the Arabian Peninsula to Africa. The threat these groups pose is evolving. But to meet this threat, we don’t need to send tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad or occupy other nations…That’s why [...]

by Evan Bernick  Why should anyone who doesn’t have a religious objection to the Affordable Care Act’s “contraceptive mandate” care about it one way or the other? As a legal fellow with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, I’ve spent the last few months defending religious employers against the government’s efforts to impose [...]

by Brandon James Smith  Conservatism is fundamentally and unyieldingly at war with poverty and disorder. At its core, conservatism seeks not just to alleviate these social problems, but to wage an aggressive war against them. President Obama, in his State of the Union address, has instead declared a war on liberty, [...]

by Frank Scaturro The presidential election of 2012 passed, as most others have, with little focus by voters on the issue of judicial nominations. Yet there are few other issues nowadays on which a president’s decisions can be so impactful.  The life-tenured judges he appoints continue to impact the country [...]

by Brandon James Smith In the wake of a devastating loss, political activists and volunteers on the right have begun to despair.  Though I am immensely disappointed about the results and how they presage a dim future, I do not have the luxury of despair.  A generation of Americans will [...]

by Piero Tozzi One tires of the tawdriness of it all.  The obsessions of Lena Dunham and Sandra Fluke, the profanity-laced tirades of Samuel L. Jackson and the alleged nonagenarian of Michael Moore’s devising.  Indeed, the vulgarisms spouted by the current occupant of the Oval Office himself. I have had [...]

by Prof. Patrick Garry There are two consistent truths about First Amendment speech and religion freedoms: first, there is always someone or some group in favor of them, while at the same time someone or some group opposed to them; and second, there is often little consistency from case to [...]