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Opinion and Commentary
"Obama's Phony Federalism," DC Examiner, November 17, 2009
"Obama's Arrogance of Power," DC Examiner, November 10, 2009
"Three Cheers for Divided Government," DC Examiner, November 3, 2009
"Read the Bills? How about Reading the Constitution?," DC Examiner, October 27, 2009
"Talking with the Tea Partiers," DC Examiner, October 20, 2009
"Obama Is Becoming the Omnipresident," DC Examiner, October 6, 2009
"The Imperial Presidency Comes in Green, Too," DC Examiner, September 29, 2009
"Right's Czar Mania Is a Distraction," DC Examiner, September 22, 2009
"March on 9/12 Shows the Right on the Rise," DC Examiner, September 15, 2009
"Hey, Mr. President, Leave Those Kids Alone," DC Examiner, September 8, 2009
"Afghanistan May Be Obama's Vietnam," DC Examiner, September 1, 2009
"Abolish the DHS," DC Examiner, August 25, 2009
"The Era of Big Government Initiatives Is Over," San Francisco Examiner, August 18, 2009
"The Right Can Do Better Than Romney," DC Examiner, August 11, 2009
"If Troops Are Deployed at Home, We Need to Have Solid Oversight," San Francisco Examiner, August 4, 2009
"Drunk with Power and Esteem, Presidents' Sanity Disappears," San Francisco Examiner, July 14, 2009
"Millenials as the New Statists," DC Examiner, July 14, 2009
"Sarah's Swan Song," DC Examiner, July 6, 2009
"Obama's Statist Ambitions," DC Examiner, June 30, 2009
"Staying in Afghanistan Is the Wrong Strategy," DC Examiner, June 23, 2009
"The "Militia Panic" of 2009," DC Examiner, June 16, 2009
"Sotomayor: A Presidential Power Skeptic?," DC Examiner, June 9, 2009
"Voters Are the Cause of America's Fiscal Mess," DC Examiner, June 2, 2009
"Time to Downsize the Imperial Vice-Presidency," DC Examiner, May 26, 2009
"Dick Cheney Is Becoming Obama's Enabler," DC Examiner, May 19, 2009
"How Barack Obama Killed an American Pastime," DC Examiner, May 12, 2009
"Who Is Watching the Watchmen?," DC Examiner, May 5, 2009
"Obama's 100-Day Power Grab," DC Examiner, April 28, 2009
"Of Course It Was Torture," DC Examiner, April 20, 2009
"Let's Really Cut the Pentagon's Budget," DC Examiner, April 14, 2009
"Serve America Lets Congress Take Another Bow," DC Examiner, April 7, 2009
"Beware the Cult of Obama," San Francisco Examiner, March 31, 2009
"Change and Hope on Drug Policy?," DC Examiner, March 24, 2009
"In Defense of Distrust in Government," DC Examiner, March 17, 2009
"Filibuster Needed Now More than Ever," DC Examiner, March 10, 2009
"Conservatives Need a Humbler Foreign Policy," DC Examiner, March 3, 2009
"The President Talks Too Much," DC Examiner, February 24, 2009
"Right Helped Prepare the Way for Obama's Imperial Presidency," DC Examiner, February 16, 2009
"Turns out That No, He Can't," DC Examiner, February 10, 2009
"Activist and Warrior Presidents Dominate Historians' Polls," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, January 25, 2009
"The Pop Culture Presidency," Cato.org, January 17, 2009
"Be Wary of Using Military as Police," by Gene Healy and Benjamin H. Friedman, Orange County Register, December 26, 2008
"New President Won't Tame Executive Power," Orange County Register, October 14, 2008
"A Profile in Cowardice," National Review (Online), September 25, 2008
"A President, Not a Savior," Christian Science Monitor, August 28, 2008
"The Pop Culture Presidency," Forbes.com, May 15, 2008
"The Cult of the Presidency," Reason, May 12, 2008
"Limits on Eavesdropping Need to Stay," by Timothy B. Lee and Gene Healy, Orange County Register, February 19, 2008
"A Presidency Worth Celebrating," Reason (Online), February 18, 2008
"Learning to Love the Imperial Presidency," Reason, September 12, 2007
"More Pronouncements From America's Throne," Houston Chronicle, January 21, 2007
"Went to War? Good President! Kept the Peace? Not so Hot," Chicago Sun-Times, December 10, 2006
"Conservatives Need 'Healthy Skepticism'," by Gene Healy and Tim Lynch, Cato.org, June 7, 2006
"Faith-Based Constitutionalism," by Gene Healy and Tim Lynch, Cato.org, May 18, 2006
"Speech from the Throne," Cato.org, January 31, 2006
"Begging His Pardon," Legal Times, November 14, 2005
"Stay What Course?," by Gene Healy and Justin Logan, Reason (Online), November 2, 2005
"Geena Davis Is Not My President," Reason (Online), October 18, 2005
"What of 'Posse Comitatus'?," Akron Beacon Journal, October 7, 2005
"Domestic Militarization: A Disaster in the Making," Cato.org, September 27, 2005
"Jose Padilla: Constitutional Unperson?," Miami Herald, September 24, 2005
"Bush's Tortuous Choice," Cato.org, July 15, 2005
"The Era of Jackbooted Nags," Cato.org, July 3, 2005
"Criminalization out of Control," The Baltimore Sun, June 17, 2005
"Nuclear Climbdown," American Spectator, May 26, 2005
"The Culture of Criminalization," Cato.org, May 18, 2005
"Nuclear Brinksmanship," Reason (Online), April 27, 2005
"Don't Make a Federal Case Out of It," Reason (Online), December 17, 2004
"The Drug-War Distraction:
Feds Have Better Things to Do than Take on the Role of National Vice Squad," Cato.org, December 16, 2004
"We're at War not with a State but an Armed Ideology," Star Tribune, September 12, 2004
"John Kerry's War Vote: Profiles in Political Calculation?," Cato.org, August 20, 2004
"Lessons of Martha Stewart Case," Cato.org, July 16, 2004
"Like All Those New Laws? You May Get a Charge out of Them," Chicago Sun-Times, July 3, 2004
"You Gotta Serve Somebody," Cato.org, May 7, 2004
"Can the President Imprison Anyone, Forever?," Cato.org, April 28, 2004
"Nourishing the enemy," South China Morning Post, April 19, 2004
"Dangerous Minds: Hernando de Soto," Fox News (Online), April 14, 2004
"Deployed in the USA?," Cato.org, March 19, 2004
"The Era of Big Government Conservatism," Cato.org, February 1, 2004
"Citizen Disarmament in D.C.," Cato.org, January 20, 2004
"Less Guns, More Crime," American Spectator, January 20, 2004
"Healthy Living Through Coercion," Washington Times, December 11, 2003
"What's Conservative about the Pledge of Allegiance?," Cato.org, November 4, 2003
"Requiem for the Powell Doctrine," Chicago Tribune, August 11, 2003
"Remake the World in America's Image?," Cato.org, August 2, 2003
"Battle of the Ban," by Robert A. Levy and Gene Healy, Cato.org, July 21, 2003
"The Case of the Missing WMDs," Cato.org, June 19, 2003
"Making a Federal Case Out of ... Everything?," Cato.org, June 10, 2003
"Why Hussein Will Not Give Weapons of Mass Destruction to Al Qaeda," Cato.org, March 5, 2003
"You Can Fight City Hall," Cato.org, February 27, 2003
"Cato Classic: Don't Militarize the Borders," Cato.org, February 24, 2003
"Don't Militarize the Borders," Cato.org, February 24, 2003
"Ehrlich Errs with Project Exile," Cato.org, February 12, 2003
"Border Security Is No Job for the Military," Los Angeles Times, February 5, 2003
"Beware of Total Information Awareness," Cato.org, January 20, 2003
"War by Legal Loophole," Cato.org, September 12, 2002
"Misguided Mission for Military," Washington Times, July 31, 2002
"Volunteer Voyeurs?," Cato.org, July 29, 2002
"Trigger for a Test of D.C. Gun Laws?," Washington Times, June 12, 2002
"Protecting D.C.: The Necessity of Bearing Arms," National Review (Online), June 10, 2002
"The NRA Takes Aim at 10th Amendment," Fox News (Online), May 29, 2002
"War with Iraq: Who Decides?," Cato.org, February 26, 2002
"Clinton's Legacy: Another Imperial Presidency," Cato.org, January 20, 2001
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