Recently outside Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home in Charlottesville, Virginia, Obama gave his view of the Constitution and the separation of powers, “That’s the good thing as a president, I can do whatever I want.” Here, Bob Levy, chairman of Cato’s board of directors, explains the procedures involved in stopping Obama from unilaterally becoming the legislature.
Barack Obama: Down on Animal Farm
Obama is captaining a vast government effort to deceive and control American citizens in a grand Orwellian fashion. And in the process, Barack Obama is altering the meaning of words and re-writing history. Here, writing at National Review, Victor Davis Hanson unfolds the whole grizzly story for you. Our president swore on a bible and […]
Shooting to Win
Learn what it takes to compete in biathlon.
This is Nuts! California’s Fortune 500
No it’s not a list of the 500 most valuable corporations in California. It’s a list of California’s 500 most valuable retired public employee pensions. They all exceed $180,000 a year. The highest one is paid to a Mr. Bruce V. Malkenhorst. He retired from the good city of Vernon, doing what I don’t know. […]
Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner and the Disappearing Ink of Obamacare
America’s staunchest scholars in opposition to Obamacare are undisputedly the Cato Institute’s Michaels Tanner and Cannon. Debbie and I know each and, in a matter of days, will be speaking with them first hand about the job-killing beast that is O’Care. In the interim, you get an opportunity to read from Mr. Tanner what he […]
HRM Obama: “I Can Do What I Want”
His Royal Majesty’s (HRM) latest proclamation, this time uttered, jokingly, if you can believe the effrontery, at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Obama at Monticello? Is there a president who less embodies the Constitutional federal republic spirit of Thomas Jefferson than does Barack Obama? What a slap in the face to Jefferson and all Americans. This guy […]
Now You’re Talkin’!
Who Creates the Laws We Live By?
The Constitution is clear: Congress creates our laws and the executive branch is charged with executing the laws Congress creates. This obvious fact is apparently new news to the Obama administration and the IRS. Here the Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro explains to you how the IRS intends to illegally expand Obamacare and what the Cato […]
Iran, Syria, North Korea—or Metcalf Station, San Jose?
Which location on the globe gives you the most reason to miss a night’s sleep? For me, it’s the Metcalf PG&E station near San Jose. You may not be aware that last April a team of professional sharpshooters attempted to cripple the main electrical generating plant that supplies juice to Silicon Valley. Had there been […]
Scientific Errors Gone Wild
Dick and I recently attended another Cato event, this one in Naples, Florida, Ritz Carlton. If you’ve not been to one of these events, you need to. They are extremely well run, entertaining and informative. The featured speaker this year was John Stossel, host of Stossel, Fox Business Network, whose low-key, fireside-chat manner gave the […]