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Gun Case Could Broaden Legal Basis for Wide Range of Rights

A finding that the Second Amendment protects individuals’ right to own a gun could also provide more solid ground for recognition of the right to abortion, to sexual privacy, to gay marriage, and to a wide variety of other rights that conservative justices on the court and “originalist” Constitutional scholars have long opposed.


CATO Institute Finds $180 Billion Benefit to Legalizing Illegal Immigrants

A new study from the libertarian CATO Institute concludes that legalizing the more than eight million undocumented workers in the United States would have significant economic benefits for the country, while simply enhancing border enforcement and applying restrictive immigration laws would actually hurt the U.S. economically.


Conservatives Write Off Sanford as a National Leader

At the Washington, D.C. office of FreedomWorks, the conservative non-profit that has promoted and trained organizers of anti-tax Tea Parties, no one knew what Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) was going to say.


GOP-Cited Economists Skeptical of Party’s Stimulus Plans

A campaign to discredit the Democratic stimulus package also pokes holes in Republican alternatives.