Kagan’s Disturbing Silence on Natural Rights
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 8th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Kagan’s Disturbing Silence on Natural Rights
Jacob Sullum, Reason
From last week's confirmation hearings, we learned that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan likes to eat in Chinese restaurants on Christmas. She did not say how she spends Independence Day, but evidently it does not involve reflecting on the meaning of our founding document.According to the Declaration of Independence, people create government to protect their pre-existing, inalienable rights. Yet when Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) asked Kagan whether armed self-defense is one of those rights, she professed agnosticism.
Obama’s New Take on Partisanship
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
One of President Obama’s strangest complaints is that there are too many in Congress who act, well, like former senator Obama.In his recent speech on the question of comprehensive immigration reform, President Obama once again blasted Republican political opportunism that opposes his initiatives for partisan, rather than principled, reasons. Indeed, Obama regularly criticizes as disingenuous those conservative politicos in Congress who mindlessly thwart his every move on health care, foreign policy, cap-and-trade, illegal immigration — you name it.Consider the…
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The Curse Of Economic Uncertainty
Thomas Cooley, Forbes
There is a remarkably testy debate going on about the tension between the desire for a coherent fiscal policy and the anemic recovery of the global economy. The most abrasive voice is that of economist Paul Krugman, who has been attacking German policymakers for addressing their fiscal deficits, loudly insisting on the need for more stimulus in the U.S. and labeling everyone who disagrees with him asinine. There was a lot of debate at the recent G-20 meetings but no support for the Obama administration's view that fiscal sustainability should be a “medium-term” goal (whatever…
