In the News: Week of October 1-7, 2009

Across the Country

CAP AND TRADE:

John Kerry: If You Enjoyed This Year’s Recession, Just Wait for Cap & Trade

By Nick Loris, The Heritage Foundation; October 5, 2009

CONSTITUTIONAL/CIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES:

Justices to Decide If State Gun Laws Violate Rights

By Robert Barnes, The Washington Post; October 1, 2009

Health Care and the Constitution

By John Hendrickson, Public Interest Institute; October 7, 2009

The Constitution: It’s Not Just for Conservatives

by Josh Eboch, Tenth Amendment Center; October 1, 2009 [video]

Mourning Constitutional

By Matthew Ladner, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs; September 29, 2009

Locking Up Political Speech: How Electioneering Communications Laws Stifle Free Speech and Civic Engagement

By Michael C. Munge, Institute for Justice; September 29, 2009

FOREIGN AFFAIRS:

19 Reasons to Win in Afghanistan

By Conn Carroll, Heritage Foundation; October 2, 2009

Honor the Free Chinese: Light the Empire State Building Red and Blue on October 10

By Walter Lohman, Heritage Foundation; October 1, 2009

HEALTH CARE:

GOP Anti-Abortion Provision in Health Bill Defeated

By Greg Hitt, The Wall Street Journal; October 1, 2009

Empower Patients First Act: Another Serious Conservative Health Plan

By Bob Moffit, Heritage Foundation; October 1, 2009

Opting out of Medicare: A Lawsuit Challenges Federal Coercion in Your Choice of Health Care

Wall Street Journal’s Review and Outlook; October 4, 2009

Competition, Not Price-Controls, Will Save Medicare

By John Reiner, Heritage Foundation; October 6, 2009

How the Baucus Bill Harms State Budgets

By Dennis Smith, Heritage Foundation; October 5, 2009

STATES:

States: Stop Subsidizing FEMA Waste and Manage Your Own Local Disasters

by Matt A. Mayer, Heritage Foundation; September 30, 2009

OTHER:

Some Tribes at Odds over Coal Plants

By Dennis Wagner, USA Today; October 1, 2009

Stimulus Spending Doesn’t Work

By Robert J. Barro and Charles J. Redlick, The Wall Street Journal; October 1, 2009

End the Fed

By Ron Paul and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart; September 29, 2009 [video]

Criminalizing Us All

By Brian W. Walsh, The Dallas Morning News; October 2, 2009

Virginia Argues that They Don’t Need to Send out Military Absentee Ballots in Time to Vote

By Soren Dayton, RedState; October 3, 2009

U.S. Cedes Economic Independence to IMF

By Dick Morris; October 5, 2009 [video]

Ceding the Internet to “Global Governance”

By Brett Schaefer, Heritage Foundation; October 5, 2009

How to “Return to Normalcy” in America: Follow the Example of President Warren G. Harding

By John Hendrickson, Public Interest Institute; September 29, 2009

Immigration Hard-Liner Has His Wings Clipped

By Randal C. Archibold, The New York Times; October 6, 2009



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