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How States Can Stop the Obama Health Care Law

CATO’s Michael Cannon explains some non-controversial steps that states can take right now to bring Obamacare down

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Killing us softly: Why Holder’s letter carries little water

It behooves observers to understand why, for several reasons, Holder’s statement may be less secure than we would ideally hope.

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Obama might explain why he can drone you, but he’ll be wrong

The executive’s track record on this has been dismal. The administration firstdenied the existence of any sort of drone or targeted killing program, continued touse the denial as a shield against liability for its killings in court, while beginning to announce its reasoning informally in speeches by various executive officials.

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The Right to Self-Defense

Judge Napolitano on your natural right…

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A Brief History of the Tenth Amendment

An essential history, from one of the leading scholars on the Founders’ Constitution.

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Federal vs Consolidated Government

James Madison – in his own words…

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Presidents and Mythology

Judge Napolitano on how all presidents – save one – have been wrong on what their duty is.

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The Lingering Curse of “Bush Freedom”

It has been almost four years since George W. Bush’s presidency ended. Unfortunately, it increasingly appears that Bush did permanent damage to this nation’s political vocabulary and understanding. Rather than repeal his worst precedents, Barack Obama used them as launch pads for his own abuses. And the scant discussion of Obama’s power grabs in this fall’s presidential campaigns illustrate how Bush’s abuses have become the new norms.

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Obama’s Secret Court for Killing

Judge Andrew Napolitano on the travesty that is Obama’s new murder memo

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Indiana State Senator: “I Will Decide What’s Constitutional, Not You”

“Let me get this straight,” Tenth Amendment Center executive director Michael Boldin said. “He doesn’t think the people, or their representatives, have the ability to determine if something is constitutional, buthe alone has the ability to unilaterally make that determination and keep the issue from even coming up for debate. Nice. I wonder what he will do if the feds come after guns? I suppose he will make sure the state of Indiana doesn’t stand in in their way. The feds are supreme in all things,after all. David Long, like the Obama administration he’s protecting, is dangerous.”

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State Supremacy vs the Supremacy Clause

On the right to keep and bear arms – and the duty of states to protect that right

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