Below The Beltway

A re-post from last year, but still worth reading today:

Two Hundred Thirty Two Years Ago, Thomas Jefferson wrote the following:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate [...]

H/T: Jason Pye
         

The Supreme Court was supposed to have issues a ruling this week on whether the speech limits imposed by the McCain-Feingold law applied to an movie that was critical of  Hillary Clinton and made during the 2008 Presidential campaign.
Instead of ruling, though, the justices have asked for additional argument on what could be a very [...]

Ilya Shaprio notes this over at Cato@Liberty:
The King of Pop’s creativity allowed him and his family to make hundreds of millions of dollars, yes, but it also created thousands of jobs in the music and marketing industries and brought joy to fans around the world. Whatever his personal eccentricities — perhaps, in part, as a [...]

I’ve written several times in the past about the case of Savanna Redding, a then 13 year old girl in Arizona who was strip-searched by school officials who believed that she was in possession of illicit Ibuprofen.
Today, the Supreme Court overwhelmingly ruled that the search violated Savanna’s civil rights:
WASHINGTON — In a ruling of interest [...]

Twenty years ago when the flag burning debate was on the front pages, I wrote this article for The Freeman. I’ve posted it here before, but the words bear repeating:
The recent Supreme Court decision overturning state and Federal laws that made it a crime to burn or desecrate the American flag has created a storm [...]

Twenty years ago today, the government of China sent tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square, crushing a student rebellion that had been growing for over a month. Of all the images that remain from that day, the one that has always stayed with me has been the man above, standing down a column of tanks. I [...]

I never thought I’d say that I agree with Dick Cheney about anything, but apparently there’s an exception to every rule:

“I think that freedom means freedom for everyone,” replied the former VP. “As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time [...]

After I listened to the oral arguments of the California Supreme Court’s hearing on Proposition 8 and gay marriage, it seemed pretty obvious that the Court would find, based on state law that had nothing to do with the gay marriage issue, that Proposition 8 was a proper amendment to the state Constitution.
And, it [...]

Earlier today I wrote about the case of Daniel Hauser, a 13 year old Minnesota boy whose parents were refusing to submit him for chemotherapy to treat his Hogdkins disease. As I noted at the time, a decision in the case was imminent.
Well, earlier today, a state court Judge ruled that Daniel must undergo the [...]