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For anyone interested in limiting the size and scope of government, we’ve seen firsthand that legislatures and members of the executive branch cannot be trusted to restrain their own power. That is why the role of the judiciary to act as a check on the other two branches of government is so important. But in [...]
The case for tarring as “activists” justices who question the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act is even less persuasive than the administration’s floundering attempts to square the law with notions of federalism and limited government. A prime example of that comes from Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne and his feature, “Judicial Activists in the Supreme Court.” [...]
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Erdogan To Obama: Strong Horse Or Weak Horse? 18 May 2013, 5:59 am
At a joint press conference at the White House on Thursday, President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told us what we already knew: They agree that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad “needs to go.” The problem, however, lies in the actual playing out of teamwork. Since the start of the civil war [...]Source: AFF Doublethink Online | Elisha Maldonado
Authoritarian Can’t Hide Embarrassing Story In The Internet Age 16 May 2013, 9:41 pm
Horses and powerful rulers have an odd relationship. Roman Emperor Caligula named his horse a consul. More recently, the horse of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov almost killed him. Wearing traditional national dress Turkmen, the authoritarian leader was thrown from his horse last month in a race held in Turkmenistan. He was apparently briefly knocked unconscious [...]Source: AFF Doublethink Online | Joseph Hammond