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HOLIDAY of the DAY (for those looking for a reason to stay home today) This is the 64th anniversary of the changing of William “Wild Bill” Donavan’s wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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Pyrrhic Victory?

King Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated the Romans at Heraclea (280BC) and at Asculum (279BC), but at the cost of irreplaceable casualties to his own forces. Upon being congratulated by a cohort, the King replied, “one more such victory would utterly undo me...

Published 11-20-2011 9:30 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, government, Congress, Supreme Court, Constitution, axcess bloggers, ObamaCare
Mandate, Severability and Standing

The Supreme Court has agreed to combine three cases ( National Federation of Independent Business v Sebelius , No 11-393; US Department of Health and Human Services v Florida , No 11-398; and Florida v Department of Health and Human Services , No 11-400...

Published 11-15-2011 13:10 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: government, Congress, law, Supreme Court, Constitution, axcess bloggers, 2012 Elections, ObamaCare
ObamaCare SCOTUS Update

The hatful of lawsuits challenging ObamaCare are likely to be heard before the Supreme Court of the United States during this session. All of the cases ask the Court to rule on whether the Commerce Clause of the Constitution allows Congress only to regulate...

Published 10-25-2011 11:13 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: government, Congress, law, Supreme Court, medicine, Constitution, axcess bloggers, ObamaCare
Pound the Table and Scream

There’s an axiom for trial lawyers – if the facts are working against you, pound the table and scream the law; if the law’s working against you, pound the table and scream the facts; if both are working against you, just pound the table and scream. That...

Published 07-02-2011 8:15 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, government, Supreme Court, Senate, Constitution, axcess bloggers, conservatism, liberalism, Libya, ObamaCare, Immigration, Anchor Babies
Removing the Check on Congressional Power

Finally, in the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [Cincinnati], someone asked the central question regarding the constitutionality of the public mandate aspect of ObamaCare – does the Commerce Clause of the Constitution give the State the power...

Published 06-04-2011 6:11 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: government, law, Supreme Court, Constitution, axcess bloggers, conservatism, liberalism
“Equality” ≠ Fairness

I use small-L “liberal” to denote neoliberals [today’s political liberals], and capital-L “Liberal” to denote paleoliberals [the children of the Enlightenment that included our Founders]. The rise of modern political Liberalism...

Published 05-16-2010 8:46 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: economics, government, history, Congress, Constitution, axcess bloggers, conservatism, liberalism
Chronicle of Our Perdicament

I apologize for boring all of you with a look at how and why policy works (or doesn’t) and how it affects the non-government component of society (us). There is a motif to the serial dysfunction of governmental intervention – common threads...

Published 03-24-2010 10:35 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Obama, economics, government, history, Congress, medicine, business, energy, Constitution
Thought for the Day

Speaker Pelosi is fond of saying that “healthcare is a right”, well now that is has been passed into law, either her speechwriter needs to be found and slapped for lying to us, or those who actually wrote the actual bill need to be found and slapped for...

Published 03-22-2010 14:37 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Obama, government, Congress, law, Constitution
Monetary Policy

A stable currency was so important to the Founders that they included “To coin money, [and] regulate the value thereof [1] ” as one of the specific powers granted to Congress. They have delegated that power to the Federal Reserve, America’s central bank...

Published 03-10-2010 9:19 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, economics, government, history, Congress, business, Constitution
Does it Matter if the President is a Socialist?

The short answer is yes because he would replace history’s most successful economic theory (as measured by generalized prosperity and systemic economic growth), with its least successful (as measured by the same metrics). Now to the important question...

Published 02-23-2010 11:24 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, economics, government, history, Congress, law, business, Constitution

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