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United States sovereignty not to be reckoned with
February 4, 2010
Over the past two decades, there have been a number of attempts to subject Americans to an international judicial system with jurisdiction over war crimes and the like. This idea of a “world court” became a reality in 1998 with the introduction of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The Court itself was officially established in 2002 after 60 countries ratified the statute.

A Grim Fiscal Forecast
February 2, 2010
In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama vowed that his administration would enforce a three-year spending freeze to help dig the country out of a “massive fiscal hole.” But according to the White House’s $3.8 trillion 2011 budget proposal released Monday, freeze or no freeze, that hole is about to get much deeper.

The State of our union has been better
January 29, 2010
Even before President Obama delivered his State of the Union address on Wednesday, most lawmakers and most Americans already knew the current state of our union. To put it gently, it has been better.

Obamacare not dead yet
January 27, 2010
Although it’s on life-support, Obamacare is not dead, The Heritage Foundation’s Brian Darling warns. There are some who still plan to “forge forward and pass [it] by any means necessary.”

Supreme Court upholds First Amendment
January 22, 2010
On Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld the First Amendment and appropriately struck down government prohibitions on many sorts of privately-funded political advertising. In doing so, Heritage Foundation legal scholar Hans von Spakovsky argues, the court “upheld some of the most important principles: the right to engage in free speech, particularly political speech, and the right to freely associate.”