Elena Kagan seems to think the government has the legitimate Constitutional power to require all Americans "to eat three fruits, and three vegetables a day." She says it's a dumb law, but implies that as a Justice we can count on her to uphold it as Constitutional under the Commerce Clause. See for yourself.
Vapid and hollow:Writes Roger Simons at Politico, 'Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, who years ago called such hearings “a vapid and hollow charade,” helped ensure they were exactly that this week.'
During her confirmation hearings, Senator Coburn asked Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan if the government has the constitutional power under the Commerce Clause, to require all Americans to eat three vegetables and three fruits a day.
She sidestepped the question by saying it would be a "dumb law," then added that the question of whether it's a dumb law is different from the question of whether or not it's constitutional, implying that she thinks it is.
If Congress passed such a law, we could count on Justice Kagan not to strike it down. That is her kind of judicial philosophy -- the kind that says the Commerce Clause essentially permits the government to do anything it wants.
Obviously the Model-T Ford example is doesn't really belong to the "subjective moral standards applied to all by force of government" group, but it still makes a nice introduction to History's Most Useless Promises.
Many in the liberty movement are well aware of the Obama Administration's ability to assassination American citizens abroad if they are considered terrorists. However in a recent interview in the Washington Times, Obama advisor John Brennan has revealed there might be as many dozens of US citizens targeted on a assassination hit list:
"There are, in my mind, dozens of U.S. persons who are in different parts of the world, and they are very concerning to us," said John O. Brennan, deputy White House national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism.
How likely is it that the BP oil spill will be used to grow government? Wait, don't guess. I'll tell you: very likely. Dean Zarras at the Civil Society Trust blog says:
But with the remarkable live feed from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico still showing the sickening sight of oil belching into the water, one can not help but think of that please-gimme-a-Mulligan phrase from Rahm Emanuel, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
Dealing with the oil spill is one thing. Making the leap from there to push a a costly “cap-and-trade” energy policy faintly associated with climate change is quite another. It seems that rather than confronting a supposed “inconvenient truth”, Obama is attempting an inconvenient non sequitur.
A zombie, played by the Mises Institute's Bob Murphy and symbolizing the conventional media, sits down to interview Tom Woods on Woods' latest book, Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century. Make sure you see the end of the interview!
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