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'All Due Deference'
Editorial of The New York Sun
January 28, 2010
It’s hard to remember a moment in a State of the Union speech quite like the one that heard President Obama last night denounce the Supreme Court of the United States for its decision in that allowed the broadcast close to election day of a film attacking Hillary Clinton. It was a relatively short moment in a long speech, coming about two thirds of the way into it, but there was the president of America, standing just a few feet in front and somewhat above, the seated justices of the Supreme Court, and launching into a direct attack on their honors.
Getting Beyond Bernanke
By LAWRENCE PARKS
January 26, 2010
The right move for the Senate at this juncture is to use the confirmation process for the Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, to open up the question of the our central bank and the need for a reform of the laws in respect of the dollar. This is because the problem with the Federal Reserve isn’t its personnel but rather the Fed itself.
ACLU May Reverse Course On Campaign Finance Limits After Supreme Court Ruling
By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN, Special to the Sun
January 24, 2010
The first big impact of the Supreme Court’s decision lifting restrictions on corporation campaign spending may be at the American Civil Liberties Union, which, after years of opposing restrictions on free speech grounds, is considering whether to reverse course and endorse government limits on money in politics.
Deadline for Default
Editorial of The New York Sun
January 7, 2010
One of the next court dates in the litigation over the war on terror is February 1. That’s the deadline a United States district judge, Gladys Kessler, has given the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority to post a $1 million bond in a case that has been brought by the family of a 25-year-old American, Esh Kodesh Gilmore, who was slain in a terrorist attack in East Jerusalem, where he’d been working as a security guard in an Israeli building. If the Palestinians Arabs fail to post the bond, the Judge said in an opinion last month, she would leave in place an order of default against them.
Founders in the Crossfire
By SETH LIPSKY
January 5, 2010
Host: Good evening to our television audience, and welcome to this special edition of “Crossfire.” What makes it special is that we have with us tonight two Founders of America, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. Gentlemen, it’s nice to have you with us.
Hamilton: Good to be here.
Madison: What’s this doo-hickey?
Host: A microphone, Mr. President. Gentlemen the Senate of the United States just brushed aside a constitutional point of order in respect of the Health Care Reform, specifically whether the Congress has the constitutional authority to require Americans to purchase health insurance. One of the architects of the measure, Senator Max Baucus, was quoted in the New York Times as saying the power is there under the clauses of the Constitution that grant Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce and to tax and spend for the general welfare. Now I understand you gentlemen have maintained almost a feud but, in any event, two very different views of these powers.
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