Leon Friedman

According to the CIA World Factbook, our infant mortality rate (the death rate for infants one year or less) is 6.06 per 1,000 births. That puts the United States 48th in the world in that category. Forty-eighth in the world! We are behind Cuba, Taiwan, Hungary, South...

On Monday, November 14, 2011, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the challenge to the Obama health care law (known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). It granted certiorari in the Florida case decided by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, the only decision by an appeal court...

Some southern California counties (of a conservative Republican persuasion) have begun an effort to break off from the rest of California and form a 51st state. The leaders of the campaign claim that the new state, Southern California, would be more financially responsible than the current government....

A federal appeals court has just heard the first appeals from lower court decisions dealing with the constitutionality of the federal health care law (alternately called "Obama care" and the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"). A Virginia judge and a Florida judge (both appointed by Republican Presidents) have decided...

Will our involvement in the Libyan conflict become illegal after May 19, 2011? What is the significance of that date? Does the president have the right to order our ships and planes into military action without the approval of Congress? Doesn't the Constitution give Congress and only Congress the authority...

President Obama seeks to reduce the deficit and the national debt by cutting defense costs, lowering spending on Medicaid and Medicare, reducing itemized tax deductions for the rich and eliminating the Bush tax cuts for families earning over $250,000 a year. The Republicans have already defeated him on the last...