On Thursday, President Obama weighed in on the arrest of African-American Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, saying a Cambridge police officer "acted stupidly" when he arrested Gates for disorderly conduct. The next day, Obama backed down from his harsh comment.

Obama was right the first time.

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Right after Barack Obama was elected president, I followed his lead and began reading books on Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Great Depression. Like the president-elect, I wanted to know what lessons history had for dealing with our dire economic crisis.

Much of our current crisis stems from the financial...

In June, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on the Second Amendment right to bear arms, D.C. v. Heller. For over 70 years, the federal courts had read that amendment to protect only a state's right to organize militias, like the National Guard. In a long-awaited victory...

One of the most intriguing aspects of Justice Scalia's opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, the landmark Second Amendment decision handed down Thursday, is its use of living constitutionalism to justify the decision to invalidate D.C.'s handgun ban. On first look, the opinion appears to be an ode to...

There are some striking similarities between the Heller decision and Bush v. Gore. In both cases, the Court articulates a "new" right to be recognized by the Courts: a right to bear arms in Heller and a right to have votes tabulated equally in Bush v. Gore. Yet in both...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been making more frequent forays into the public spotlight recently. In a recent televised interview on Stanley Pottinger's "Beyond Politics," Scalia was asked what would be the one thing he would change about America if he were King. His response was laughable, betraying a...

The uproar on Capitol Hill over President Bush's secret program to use the National Security Administration to spy on American citizens without a warrant continues to grow. But the NSA program - and the President's defense of it - are much more worrisome than many in Washington realize.

Under...