By Alex Nowrasteh
Under current law unauthorized immigrant spouses or children of U.S. citizens can gain lawful permanent residency (LPR) status if they return to their home country to apply at a U.S. consulate or embassy. The Catch-22 is that unauthorized immigrants who have lived here are barred from returning for up to ten years once they leave [...]
Unlawful Presence Waivers Are Not Amnesty is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Christopher Preble
I guess it’s not a huge surprise that a writer at The Daily Kos would characterize Cato as “Republican-supporting” when it suits a purpose. Just for their future reference, here is a laundry list of positions taken by Cato scholars that most Republicans (Beltway Republicans, at least) tend to abhor: Cutting military spending The Iraq [...]
Hey Daily Kos, Cato Is Not A ‘Republican-supporting’ Institution is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Michael F. Cannon
Politico has run my letter to the editor regarding their article on states refusing to create ObamaCare’s health insurance Exchanges: “Right winning war on state health-insurance exchanges,” (POLITICO, Apr. 18) is false or misleading on several points. It mislabels me a conservative and the Cato Institute a “national conservative organization,” when both are libertarian. Cato scholars [...]
Letter Correcting Politico Article re States & ObamaCare Exchanges is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Tim Lynch
According to news reports, there was a “stabbing spree” at a store in downtown Salt Lake City. Just the latest reminder that a crime can happen anywhere, anytime. Fortunately, an unnamed concealed carry permit holder was on the scene and put a stop to the attack. H/T Instapundit. Last week, Cato held a policy forum on the [...]
Gun Owner Ended the Attack and Hysteria is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Roger Pilon
Today POLITICO Arena asks: Is Common Cause’s complaint against The American Legislative Exchange Council valid, or is it a smear against a successful conservative advocacy group? My response: Common Cause has joined such bully-boys as the discredited former White House aide Van Jones and his “Color of Change” to do what the Left does best—smear those [...]
Obama’s Long Knives Come Out is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Ilya Shapiro
This blogpost was co-authored by Cato legal associate Carl DeNigris. Before the argument on the Arizona immigration case yesterday, the Supreme Court scored a blow for American taxpayers by rejecting the IRS’s attempt to overturn the Court’s prior interpretation of a disputed provision of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. §6501(e)(1)(A). By avoiding the issue of whether [...]
Supreme Court Gives Taxpayers a Muddled Win is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Tim Lynch
President Obama recently gave an interview to Rolling Stone and tried to defend his drug war policies–especially his escalation of the federal war against medical marijuana providers in California. Obama now says anyone who thought he was hoping he’d change course from the Bush-Ashcroft policies somehow got the wrong impression from his 2008 campaign. And, besides, he said you can’t [...]
Obama Is But a Small Cog in Drug War Machine is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Julian Sanchez
The White House has issued a threat to veto the Cyber Intelligence Information Sharing Protection Act (CISPA) in its current form, despite recent amendments aimed at assuaging the concerns of privacy and civil liberties advocates: H.R. 3523 fails to provide authorities to ensure that the Nation’s core critical infrastructure is protected while repealing important provisions [...]
CISPA and the Right Way to Do Cybersecurity Information Sharing is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Ilya Shapiro
Yesterday’s argument in Arizona v. United States (my preview here), which in a non-Obamacare world would be the case of the decade, revealed among other things yet another bizarre legal position taken by the Obama Justice Department. That is, the solicitor general stood there and straight-facedly made the claims that: (1) local law enforcement could make ”ad hoc” [...]
Justice Sotomayor: “[Mr. Solicitor] General, I’m Terribly Confused by Your Answer” is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Tim Lynch
From today’s Washington Post: Hethmon had an up-close and unpleasant experience with the same kind of local police he had done so much to empower.The problem began with graffiti on a highway overpass in Bowie. Police there suspected that Hethmon’s teenage son might be involved and obtained a search warrant. They arrived at 7 a.m. [...]
Graffiti Problem … So Call in the SWAT Team!? is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
