I think Barack Obama should dump Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate and immediately replace him with Newt Gingrich. After all, their respect toward the people who rule on the constitutionality of the United States’ laws are about on par with each other.

I speak, of course, about the latest scandal to come out of the Obama administration, that of his comments about how the Supreme Court shouldn’t dare rule the Obamacare mandate unconstitutional, as it was passed by a “strong majority” of a democratically elected Congress. That scandal continued today when the Justice Department released a three-page document explaining their view of the court’s role, which was demanded by 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jerry E. Smith.

Obama’s position was essentially that the justices would lose legitimacy if they did this; that they would befoul the institution.| MORE ›

If there is one thing most of us can agree on, whether we’re liberal or conservative, it’s that we don’t want the federal government tracking us.  So I’m happy to share this except from a hearing Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) had last Tuesday with the NSA’s top lawyer, Matthew Olsen.| MORE ›

Sometimes, it’s nice to be proven wrong, if only in part. Last week, I spent a lot of time writing about the TSA and other organizations like Homeland Security. I argued that we are seeing more and more security-state policies everyday, and that we risk slipping from security-state to police-state.| MORE ›

Honestly, the first thing that comes to mind when I think “Department of Education” is No Child Left Behind, followed by a lot of trouble coming up with what else the DOE actually does in the government. Never in my life would I have thought that it contains its own set of federal agents that apparently have the power to raid people’s homes.| MORE ›