Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice DepartmentBy Hans von Spakovsky and John Fund(Broadside Books, 272 pages, $27.99) In Obama’s Enforcer, Hans von Spakovsky and John Fund tell the story of a thoroughly politicized U.S. Department of Justice, headed up by President…
Sagebrush Rebel: Reagan’s Battle With Environmental Extremists and Why It Matters TodayBy William Perry Pendley (Regnery Publishing, 256 pages, $27.95) In the late 1970s, the policies of the Carter Administration and its Department of the Interior generated an angry response…
Rails to Trails, a noteworthy program that turns abandoned rail lines into hiking trails, provides recreational opportunities for many. But the program has also put hundreds of thousands of acres of real estate — and the rights of private property owners…
Nomenklatura, “name people” in Russian, were the privileged class in the Soviet Union who got all the benefits while the rest of the people had to do what was left. Late Monday evening, the House of Representatives sent a third…
Judge John Crawley who served as a trial judge and as a member of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, has died at the age of 73 after what news reports state was a long illness. Judge Crawley was elected…
In a 5-4 decision issued earlier this week, the United States Supreme Court held that taking a DNA swab from persons arrested for a serious offense is a legitimate booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment. In April,…
Right from the start of the oral argument on February 27, Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor and Kagan jumped on Shelby County’s lawyer asking why Congress didn’t have good reason to keep Alabama and Shelby County in the doghouse known as…
In late February, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of a Maryland statute that allows the police to take DNA swabs from people arrested for crimes and attempted crimes of violence and burglaries. The question for the Court was…
Back in December 2011, the Senate Republicans rejected a motion to cut off debate on the nomination of Caitlin Halligan to a judgeship on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Senate Republicans were on sound footing in opposing cloture…
If you like the tendentious nit-picking of Politifact, you’ll love S. 1994 because it will empower a whole new set of self-appointed fact checkers. But, if you are concerned about politically motivated mischief, you’ll see it as a wolf in…