Outside the Beltway

While the President’s recess appointments are bound to set off a political dispute with the Republicans, there does not appear to be a Constitution ban against them.

Ron Paul’s opposition to the Fourteenth Amendment would make a Paul Administration an enemy of civil liberties.

The Chief Justice Of The United States defends his colleagues.

Domestic dispute or criminal act?

For a guy who says he dislikes “activist judges,” Rick Perry sure wants a certain Federal Judge in Virginia to be an activist.

Not surprisingly, most of the Republican candidates for President aren’t too keen on reducing the excessive growth in Executive Branch power.

Rick Perry is seeking Court intervention to get on the Virginia ballot. He isn’t likely to get very far.

A smoking gun?

Newt Gingirch ups the ante in his rhetorical assault on judicial independence.

Newt Gingrich’s ideas about the role of the judiciary are very dangerous.

Protesters in the Chinese fishing village of Wukan are now in open revolt against the Chinese government. The government is laying siege to the town.

Do American courts throw people in jail for failing to pay their debts? No, they don’t.

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

Back in the late 90s, Newt wanted to execute marjiuana traffickers.

A new set of proposed Constitutional Amendments reveals that many people still don’t understand what Citizens United was about.

In a desperate bid to save a floundering campaign, Rick Perry is willing to sacrifice important freedoms.

A new ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals raises a host of questions.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 authorizes the President the authority to indefinitely detain persons, even American citizens arrested on American soil, without trial because they allegedly support the enemy.

New head-scratching revelations in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case.

My wife, Kimberly Webb Joyner, died this morning in her sleep from unknown causes. She was 41.

A progressive columnist has been outed as having sympathies for the Democratic Party.

The NYPD is wantonly violating the 1st Amendment.

The calendar favors waiting out the occupiers, not confronting them.

Why we shouldn’t be surprised that police are using tools of violence against protestors.

Further, there was another example of police violence at UCD earlier this week.

I find the rather nonchalant gassing of the protestors by the police officer, as if he is sparying his roses for aphids, to be disturbing.

Now that Occupy Wall Street is unable to occupy Wall Street, its leaders will have to come up with new ways to keep the pressure on. Some crazies are threatening to take the movement over in the meantime.