Apr 22, 2015 – The power to legislate means the power to make law. … The only problem for Black was that six of his colleagues on the Supreme Court voted to find the statute constitutional. … ML The point of the book is to tell the story behind the Constitution, to connect it to individuals and to help make it interesting…

May 10, 2015 – San Francisco supervisors are entertaining a measure to lower the voting age to 16 in some municipal elections. … Some 13 percent didn't even try to answer. … The very fact that Los Angeles is thinking of dangling a cash prize to entice citizens to vote says it all.…

May 9, 2015 – (@DIANAATURNBULL) May 9, 2015 The WHOLE country should take it to the streets. … could have been voted out. … Clearly, the citizens of the United Kingdom did not want the Tories out as they elected them to a majority.…

May 9, 2015 – Democrats refused to compromise with Republicans on anything and the GOP was desperate to show its opposition to Barack Obama’s unpopular … * Despite the fact that they’ve PUBLICLY railed against Obama’s terrible nuke deal, Senate Republicans just voted to strip Congress … Everything the Republicans have done since they won in November has been one long “Screw you” to the people who voted for them.…

May 8, 2015 – BBC noted that for every step to the center that party makes, the unions are there to shift to the left. … Again, it’s somewhat like 1992 with John Major’s government.Labour will have to go back to the drawing board to learn how to win again.Cameron … A significant portion of anti-EU Conservative MPs voted with Labour to defeat the motion, in the hopes that Major would delay ratification…

May 8, 2015 – So how hard can it be to build a website when you have access to vast grants of federal taxpayer dollars? … "Her primary mission was not to save a beleaguered state program but to get Kitzhaber re-elected." … The same lesson applies to energy policy.…

May 8, 2015 – Thomas Jefferson said it well: "To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and … In 1989, when the Senate voted to restrict some funding for offensive art, Richard Koshalek, the director of the Museum of Contemporary … Nor did Christian organizations exhort their members to do so. Which brings us to Pamela Geller.…

May 8, 2015 – This attempt to deceive is not unique to Hochberg – in fact, the bank has a history of making misrepresentations in an effort to downplay … According to reports, this was after Farrell voted to have the bank give nearly $16 million in loans to Azure Power. … In addition to costing the United States billions, the bank has directly contributed to American job loss.…

May 7, 2015 – "It is going to go down to the wire." … wants to increase the top tax rate to 50 percent, where it was before the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government reduced it to … from six seats to 51.…

May 6, 2015 – The New York Times' working assumption is that the only way to judge the criminal justice system is to ask if Al Sharpton is unhappy … Politicians had no choice: Either they had to build more prisons or be voted out of office. … Manhattan luxury apartment, forcing her to flee the city and move to Oregon.…

May 6, 2015 – US Senators were never supposed to respond to popular interest, but the states. … So, what to do? … the states, not to the people.…

May 6, 2015 – RHNDA could be used to force a Catholic school to maintain on its faculty a teacher who tried to persuade students that it is a good … thing to kill an unborn child. … It passed 228 to 192. Three Democrats voted for the disapproval -- and, thus, for liberty.…

May 6, 2015 – was clearly ready to lead the country.  … Both can deliver inspiring speeches about how they've overcome huge obstacles in their lives to rise to the peak of their professions … The people who voted for him were mesmerized by his teleprompter oratory, believing he was equipped to lead the country.…

May 4, 2015 – For those too young to remember the 80s, James Watt was evil personified to the environmental Left. … To be liberal is to be loved by the presstitutes. To be conservative is to face their hostile skepticism. … To be a conservative woman is to be subjected to their hostile, skeptical, vile, sexist double standard.…

May 3, 2015 – Leftist billionaire George Soros gives millions to organizations working to turn the U. … From cattle futures to selling nights in the Lincoln bedroom and seats on trade trips to China to her deleted emails, Madam Clinton … So, what does she who has admittedly planned to raise and spend $2.5 billion — with a “b” — intend to do to get “dark” or “unaccountable…

May 1, 2015 – to female voters, such as paid family leave. … to keep an eye on. … voted (and so forth).…

May 1, 2015 – So, while Sanders might say, “He’s in it to win” so as not to look like a sacrificial lamb, he really is. … According to Adam Bonica’s fundraising-based ideological scores (standarized to the same scale as OnTheIssues) Sanders rates with a … 78 compared to O’Malley’s 41 and Clinton’s 58.…

May 1, 2015 – Voted into law by the Washington City Council, the act essentially forces employers to turn a blind eye when their employees use contraceptive … leadership to allow the House to consider H. … But, at least pro-lifers will gain more confidence in the people they voted for and trusted to represent them.…

May 1, 2015 – But Sanders is an instant jolt of energy to a race that otherwise buckles under the prospect of a dreary march to a Hillary coronation … For a hardcore liberal, what’s not to love? And yet he’ll throw a curveball from time to time. … He also voted against the Brady Bill.…

May 1, 2015 – But there are differences as well, in contrast to decades when British and American politics seemed to move in tandem -- the 1980s … British politics used to be like that. In the 1951 general election, 97 percent of Britons voted either Conservative or Labour. … It has itself at least partly to blame.…

May 20, 2015 – Our argument was: There were lots of reasons to get rid of Saddam Hussein, and none to keep him. … change from day to day. … In under two years, Iraqis were waving their purple fingers to symbolize having voted in their first democratic election.…

May 20, 2015 – Question two is an attempt to force Clinton to take sides in the increasingly bitter feud between two progressive icons on an issue … In light of (a) the extraordinary American sacrifice to liberate and stabilize Iraq in a war that you voted to authorize, and (b) the … Hillary Clinton voted for the war in Iraq, voted against the Iraq surge, supported President Obama's decision to recklessly wash his…

May 20, 2015 – Is that too much to ask? … The Republicans who voted to end debate on the motion to proceed to USA Freedom in Lame Duck 2014 were only four (Cruz, Heller Lee … You don’t even have to support Senator Paul’s libertarianish politics to support his tireless fight to defend the Bill of Rights.…

May 19, 2015 – A house legal committee voted 10-2 on Tuesday to shelve the Louisiana Marriage and Conscience Act – a measure that critics said could … An IBM executive penned a letter to The Times-Picayune warning that “IBM will find it much harder to attract talent to Louisiana if … Equality Louisiana accused Johnson of trying to bring discrimination to the state through the back door.…

May 19, 2015 – bring in more allies and he took his case to Congress and got approval to go to war. … For example, here’s Hillary Clinton – who also voted to go to war – making the case for war (Emphasis mine). … But, if America is going to run and they’re going to stay, the Iraqis are going to feel like they have no choice except to turn to…