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By Dean Reuter

If there was a unifying subject of Barack Obama’s presidency, it's the inexorable progress of the executive country. Its enlargement has a development: First, extend federal powers past their constitutional limits. moment, delegate these powers to corporations and clear of elected politicians in Congress. 3rd, insulate civil servants from politics and responsibility. considering its advent in American lifestyles by means of Woodrow Wilson within the twentieth Century, the executive state’s has gradually undermined democratic self-government, diminished the sector of person liberty, and pressured the loose marketplace and financial growth.

In Liberty’s Nemesis, Dean Reuter and John Yoo acquire the brightest political minds within the nation to reveal this explosive, unchecked development of energy in executive companies starting from overall healthiness care to weather switch, monetary markets to immigration, and extra. Many american citizens have rightly shared the Founders’ worry of over the top lawmaking, yet Liberty’s Nemesis is the 1st booklet to give an explanation for why the focus of energy in administrative corporations specifically is the best – and most ignored – probability to our liberties today.

If we fail to minimize it, our constitutional republic may simply devolve into whatever such as the statist governments of Europe. President Obama’s ongoing efforts to motivate simply this kind of devolution, and the issues his management faces to that end, current a severe chance to guard the unique imaginative and prescient of the structure.

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47 Zealots like Rosenberg—armed with the significant resources of non-government, anti-gun benefactors Michael Bloomberg, George Soros, and innumerable foundations and private funding sources—will continue to provide tools outside the regular order of our constitutionally based government, with which policy makers like Clinton and Obama will be able to press their agenda even in the face of clear, contrary congressional directives. ”50 There was no particular basis in law or other regulations for this “multiple sales reporting requirement,” and it was disingenuously published by the ATF as an emergency rule change.

If these reports are true, the President would make a huge balloon payment on ENDA. 33 But it is unclear if these rules extend to a refusal to hire or retain a staffer who professes the religion of the contractor or grantee but who engages in immoral sexual conduct (which would be the case, for example, even if a staffer was civilly married to a member of the same sex). The Obama administration would likely deny that immoral conduct by a co-religionist qualifies for the exception. Or would it insist that the “equal dignity” of staffers of a different SOGI constitutes a compelling government interest that all those who do business with the federal government must honor?

Moreover, the relevant legislative history does not demonstrate that Congress intended to limit the premium tax credit to State Exchanges. 42 Months later, under pressure from members of Congress to offer a more complete explanation, the Department of the Treasury began to | 22 | LIBERTY’S NEMESIS identify potential authority for its rule. ”44 “Such exchange,” according to Treasury, is a Section 1311 exchange and should be treated as such for the purposes of authorizing tax credits and cost-sharing subsidies.

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