By Melancton Smith | Monday June 28, 2010 at 3:27 PM PDT | 7 Comments
What a feast for law geeks. Today, the Supreme Court actually decided an incorporation case. Most of us never thought we would see such in our life times. What is incorporation? It is the judicially created doctrine that certain provisions of the the bill of rights are applicable to the states. History teaches that...
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Tags: Bill of Rights, Civil Liberties, Constitution, District of Columbia v. Heller, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Law, Liberty, McDonald v. Chicago, Personal Liberty, right to keep and bear arms, Second Amendment, Second Amendment rights, Securing Civil Rights, Stephen Halbrook, Supreme Court, The Founders' Second Amendment
By Peter Klein | at 1:17 PM PDT | 4 Comments
Thanks to the Federal Government, light bulb packages will soon look like food labels and, perhaps eventually, cigarette packages (“ELECTRICIAN GENERAL WARNING: Incandescent Light Bulb Use Increases The Risk Of Infertility, Stillbirth, And Low Birth Weight”). Perhaps you didn’t know that Section 321 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 gave the Federal...
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Tags: Energy, Regulation
By Emily Skarbek | at 11:10 AM PDT | 3 Comments
As expected by many economists, the Homebuyer Tax Credit did little to nothing to encourage new home purchases and only shifted the purchase of new homes from May to April. Howard Gleckman over at the Tax Policy Center reports on the waste and fraud afforded by deficit financed public policy of this sort, noting...
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Tags: Budget and Tax Policy, Corruption, economic stimulus, Economics, Employment, federal debt, government spending, Government waste, Housing, housing policy, Mercantilism, Money and Banking, political pork, tax fraud, Taxation
