Writing at The Daily Beast , Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Edmund Morris responds to the news that President Barack Obama is currently reading one of his books about Theodore Roosevelt. Love him or hate him, there’s no denying that Roosevelt was a man of action and a gifted political operator.
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Mr. President, You’re No Theodore Roosevelt
As soon as the Supreme Court decision came down in January ruling that the corporate spending ban violated free-speech rights, a number of leading Democrats demanded action to undo this unconscionable wrong. But as Steve Chapman explains, imposing new restrictions on speech is no way to enhance democracy.
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New at Reason: Steve Chapman on the Misguided Liberal Response to Citizens United
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts tosses belated barb at Obama for attacking SCOTUS at SOTU. Israel announces new settlements in East Jerusalem, upstaging Vice President Biden’s meeting with Palestinian leaders
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Reason Morning Links: Roberts Scolds Obama, Israel Disses Biden, Mukasey Slams (Liz) Cheney
Democrats to cut congressional pay ? And ban earmarks ? Study ties moderate drinking to weight control.
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Reason Morning LInks: Dems May Ban Earmarks, Drink To Lose Weight, SCOTUS Looks at Free Speech and Funeral Protests
This weekend brought two very different conservative responses to the oral arguments in the gun rights case McDonald v. Chicago .
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Gun Control, Judicial Restraint, and McDonald v. Chicago
One goal of the “open carry” movement, The New York Times notes , is to encourage liberalization of concealed carry laws. California, for instance, is one of nine states where concealed carry permits are issued at the discretion of local officials, which often means that only the politically connected receive permission to discreetly pack heat
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Put That Thing Away!
Yesterday the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a resolution that calls upon President Obama to recognize “the systematic and deliberate annihilation” of 1.5 million Armenians during and after World War I “as genocide.” The New York Times notes that the resolution was approved despite “a last-minute plea from the Obama administration to forgo a vote that seemed sure to offend Turkey.” The third-to-last paragraph of the story suggests that plea was somewhat inconsistent with Obama’s record. “While still in the Senate,” the Times says, “Mr
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Does Obama Know What ‘Principled Commitment’ Means?
With the Supreme Court set to hear oral arguments this morning in the landmark gun rights case McDonald v. Chicago , America’s newspapers are weighing in with unsigned editorials
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New York Times: Gun Control OK, Slaughterhouse “Terrible”
More ugly news for the Brooklyn property owners fighting eminent domain abuse in the Atlantic Yards project.
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“When the most powerful forces in state government collude with the real estate industry, injustices will happen, and today is a result of that.”
Reason.tv’s Ted Balaker sat down with Eugene Volokh, professor of law at the UCLA School of Law and founder of The Volokh Conspiracy , to discuss gun rights, free expression, and the Nanny State. Find out what Volokh thinks the biggest threats to free expression are, and whether today’s muzzlers come mostly from the left or right
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Reason.tv: Eugene Volokh on Gun Rights, Free Speech, Media Bias, & More
