What you don’t know can hurt you

The devil is loose in the details. Today, there is an opinion editorial in the Wall Street Journal by Georgetown University School of Law’s constitutional expert, Randy Barnett. Professor Barnett links the tea parties that took place all over the country last week to a need to wind back federal power. In [...]

Socialism Revisited

I know I posted about this a few days ago, but I’ve heard so many people wrongly describe Obama as a socialist with no actual knowledge about what socialism is that I felt it important to revisit the issue.
Let’s be clear: The tax policy that Obama proposes is NOT socialism. Socialism is defined as government [...]

But some animals are more equal than others

Electoral College 101.  Not every vote counts, and not every vote is worth the same as every other vote.  Funny system, what?
We all learnt in civics class that the Electoral College divvies up votes by state.  Each of the 50 (and Washington DC) gets an elector for every Senator and every Congressperson,  with a winner-take-all [...]

The Unitary Executive

In tonight’s debate, Palin said that she would like to expand the powers of the VP beyond what Cheney has done. (Lord help us all!) This theory is known as the unitary executive theory. Under this theory, the president’s authority when acting as commander-in-chief or when making foreign policy cannot be reviewed by the judiciary [...]