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High court on Voting Rights Act

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/22/2009

Law and Litigation

Blog

Stimulus = Welfare + Quotas + Corruption

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/20/2009

Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package is now being used to force states to adopt racial quotas in government contracts, even if their state constitution…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Obama Administration Gives Miranda Warnings to Enemy Combatants in Afghanistan, Even Though They Are Not Legally Required

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/19/2009

The Obama Administration is now requiring investigators to give Miranda warnings to some “captured foreign fighters” in Afghanistan, advising them that they…

Law and Litigation

Blog

The $60,000 Obama Health-Care Plan: It’s “Eye-Poppingly” Expensive on a Per-Person Basis

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/19/2009

Obama’s health-care proposals will cost well over a trillion dollars, without providing universal coverage. They are so “eye-poppingly” expensive that even Congressional Democrats have…

Healthcare

Blog

U.S. Civil Rights Commission Opposes Federal Hate Crimes Bill on Double Jeopardy and Civil Liberties Grounds

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/18/2009

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has decided to oppose the federal hate-crimes bill. The Commission calls the bill a “menace to civil…

Law and Litigation

Op-Eds

Obama Stimulus Package Is Destroying Jobs

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/18/2009

The Examiner was right to protest President Barack Obama’s firing of inspector general Gerald Walpin after he exposed wrongdoing by prominent Obama supporter Kevin…

Business and Government

Citation

Jimmy P’s Top Ten Blogs Posts of the Day

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/18/2009

Health and Safety

Blog

Obama Seeks to Mandate More Risky, Low-Income Loans by Banks, in New Financial Rules

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/17/2009

The President has just announced proposals for a major overhaul of the financial system. The proposals would force banks to make even…

Consumer Freedom

Op-Eds

Obama’s Latest Economic Overhaul Calls for More Risky Loans

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/17/2009

The President has just announced proposals for a massive overhaul of the financial system. The proposals would force banks to make even MORE risky…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Tourism Bill to be Combined with Hate Crimes Bill

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/17/2009

If you were a tourist, would you like to come to a country where you could be tried twice for the same crime…

Law and Litigation

Citation

Tourism Bill to Be Combined With Anti-Civil-Liberties Hate Crimes Bill

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/17/2009

Law and Litigation

Citation

Holder’s Hate Crime Confusion

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/17/2009

Law and Litigation

Blog

Tourism Bill to Be Combined With Anti-Civil-Liberties Hate Crimes Bill

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/16/2009

If you were a tourist, would you like to come to a country where you could be tried twice for the same crime — even…

Consumer Freedom

Op-Eds

Obama Administration = Waste, Corruption, Corporate Welfare

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/15/2009

Rapidly-rising Medicare spending already threatens “to crush the federal budget,” and much Medicare spending is wasteful, yet the Obama Administration claims it…

Automobiles and Roads

Blog

More Government Waste, Corruption, and Corporate Welfare, Thanks to the Obama Administration

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/14/2009

Rapidly-rising Medicare spending already threatens “to crush the federal budget,” and much Medicare spending is wasteful, yet the Obama Administration claims it can…

Citation

Federal Hate-Crimes Bill

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/13/2009

Law and Litigation

Blog

In Cover-Up, Obama Fires Inspector General to Shield Crony and Waste Taxpayer Money

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/12/2009

Obama is firing an inspector general, Gerald Walpin, who uncovered wrongdoing by a prominent Obama supporter and opposed letting him off the hook. Ironically,…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Senate Passes FDA Tobacco Regulation Bill; Obama Will Sign It

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/11/2009

The Senate has just passed the FDA tobacco regulation bill by a 79-to-17 vote. The bill now goes to President Obama, who has…

Consumer Freedom

Op-Eds

Senate Passes Bill to Give FDA Tobacco Regulation

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/11/2009

The Senate has just passed the FDA tobacco regulation bill by a 79-to-17 vote. The bill now goes to President Obama, who has said…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Another Flaw in Hate Crimes Bill

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/11/2009

Stuart Taylor rightly criticized the new federal hate crimes bill (“The Kind of Villains We Prefer,” May 28, Page 62). But he left out…

Law and Litigation

Op-Eds

Suit Over Raunchy Radio Programs To Be Reheard in Reeves v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/11/2009

Can you sue your employer because your co-workers listen to raunchy radio programs? A federal appeals court is reconsidering its 2008 ruling…

Business and Government

Blog

FDA Poised to Regulate Tobacco, Which May Backfire

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/10/2009

Congress is about to enact a bill to subject tobacco to FDA regulation. Mark Berlind notes one anomalous feature of the bill: it…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Eleventh Circuit Grants Rehearing in Reeves v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Which Gutted Statutory Limits on Sexual Harassment Claims

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/10/2009

Can you sue your employer because your co-workers listen to raunchy radio programs? A federal appeals court is reconsidering its 2008 ruling…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Public Wants Wasteful Stimulus Package Canceled

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/10/2009

By a margin of 45% to 36%, the American people want to cancel the $787 billion stimulus package, reports pollster Rasmussen Reports. Economist…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Supreme Court Vacates Stay Order in Chrysler Case, Refuses to Rule on Legal Challenges At This Time

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/09/2009

The full Supreme Court just vacated the stay that Justice Ginsburg earlier entered that had temporarily blocked the government’s plan for Chrysler. Why it…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Illegal Chrysler Giveaway to UAW

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/09/2009

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg yesterday granted a stay temporarily blocking the government’s plan for Chrysler, which would give effectively give most of…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Stimulus Package Kills Jobs, Drives Up Unemployment

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/08/2009

Unemployment is now even higher than the Obama Administration said it would be if there were no stimulus package. At least 1.5 million…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Illegal Takeover of Chrysler: Pension Funds Have Standing in Indiana State Police Pension Trust v. Chrysler, LLC

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/08/2009

Earlier, I wrote about the Indiana pension funds’ challenge to the Obama Administration’s plan to effectively give Chrysler to the UAW Union, while cheating…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Court Rebuffs Challenge to Illegal Chrysler Bailout and Takeover; Pension Funds Will Appeal to Supreme Court

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/05/2009

A federal appeals court has refused to block the Administration’s illegal auto bailout, which rips off taxpayers and pension funds to enrich…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Illegal, Unfair Auto Bailout That Harms Retirees and Taxpayers Challenged in Chrysler Bankruptcy

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/04/2009

The Indiana State Teachers’ Retirement Fund is rightly challenging the diversion of tens of billions of dollars of federal TARP bank bailout money to…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Union Keeps Special Privileges Through Taxpayer Bailout of General Motors

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/03/2009

The federal government is spending more than $50 billion to bail out General Motors, with no end in sight. But the UAW union…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Obama Justice Department Protects Racist, Anti-Semitic Hate Group and Anti-White Voting Rights Violators

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/02/2009

Members of the New Black Panther Party, one of whom was an Obama campaign poll watcher and local democratic official, used nightsticks and racial…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Obama Panders to the UAW: $30 Billion More for Wasteful Auto Bailout

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/02/2009

The federal government is giving another $30 billion in taxpayer money to General Motors to allow it to operate without having to cut…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Corporate Welfare on a Vast Scale: Obama’s Cap-and-Trade Scam Threatens Economy

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/01/2009

One of Obama’s own advisers admits that the cap-and-trade energy-rationing scheme backed by the “Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats” would “have a trivially small…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Stimulus Package Shrinks Economy, Destroys Private Sector Jobs

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/31/2009

Most of the $800 billion stimulus package has yet to be spent, but it’s already harming the economy, both by triggering trade wars that have…

Consumer Freedom

Op-Eds

Obama Stimulus Shrinks Economy, Kills Jobs

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/31/2009

Most of the $800 billion stimulus package has yet to be spent, but it’s already harming the economy, both by triggering trade wars that…

Business and Government

Blog

Wasteful Obama Auto Bailouts Disturb Even Liberal Washington Post

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/30/2009

Even the liberal Washington Post, which endorsed Obama and has not backed a Republican for president since 1952, is getting fed up with the…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Obama Justice Department Winks at Racist Voter Intimidation

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/29/2009

Black Panthers in Philadelphia used nightsticks and racial epithets to drive white voters away from a polling place. “Career lawyers pursued the case for…

Law and Litigation

Blog

More Bailouts at Taxpayer Expense

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/27/2009

Mortgage lenders are getting even bigger taxpayer subsidies to write off mortgage loans for potentially delinquent borrowers, reports today’s Washington Examiner. “President Barack Obama…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Divorce Courts Harass Our Troops and Small Businesses

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/25/2009

Memorial Day is an opportunity to thank our troops, and open our eyes to the disgraceful way they are treated by divorce courts. The bias…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Chrysler Confronts Grim Future, Despite Billions in Taxpayer Subsidies

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/22/2009

The federal government poured billions of dollars into Chrysler, which then went bankrupt and merged with Fiat. But Chrysler may never revive, thanks to absurdly…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Class Warfare Against the Financially Responsible

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/21/2009

Earlier, the Obama Administration pushed through $250 billion in mortgage bailouts, to bail out even some high-income borrowers with normal mortgage payments, and…

Subsidies and Bailouts

Blog

Retirees, Taxpayers Ripped Off to Subsidize UAW

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/21/2009

Obama accused critics of his decision to give control of Chrysler to the United Auto Workers Union of being “speculators.” But it turns out…

Labor and Employment

Op-Eds

Supreme Court To Hear Sarbanes-Oxley Challenge

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/21/2009

A major government abuse of power is about to get much-needed scrutiny, thanks to the Supreme Court, which this week decided to hear…

Banking and Finance

Blog

Wasteful Stimulus Package Fails Even In Short Term

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/19/2009

1.2 million Americans have lost their jobs since the $800 billion stimulus package was signed into law. The Congressional Budget Office predicted it would…

Labor and Employment

Op-Eds

Business Will Miss Justice Souter

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/19/2009

Your editorial about Justice Souter’s retirement is much too optimistic (“Succeeding Souter,” May 2). It predicts that Supreme Court Justice David Souter…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Government Bullies Retirees, Banks, Rips Off Taxpayers

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/15/2009

The Obama Administration is now seeking to give the United Auto Workers Union a big chunk of General Motors, at the expense of taxpayers…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Stimulus Ignites Job-Killing Trade War With Canada

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/15/2009

The $800 billion stimulus package pushed through by Obama has ignited a trade war with Canada, reports the Washington Post. In response to vague…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Adviser Admits Obama’s Tax Increases May Kill Economic Recovery

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/14/2009

Harvard economist Martin Feldstein, warns that “the barrage of tax increases proposed in President Barack Obama’s budget could . . . kill any chance of…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Law Professors Urge Supreme Court to Review Challenge to Powerful Agency, in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/13/2009

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will weigh whether to decide what a federal judge called the “the most important separation-of-powers case regarding the President’s appointment…

Consumer Freedom

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