“The Red Menace.”  That’s what we used to call Communism.  Now, some politicos are using the term to refer to the budget crisis – America’s red ink. 

If teachers in Wisconsin are concerned about the children, what are they doing protesting at the capitol building in Madison? 

By Wes Riddle  

February 20, 2011

It was some 60 years later after “New Deal” era cases involving the Commerce Clause that the Supreme Court again struck down a law of Congress as being an impermissible exercise of the commerce power.  In U.S. v. Lopez (1995) the Court took up the Gun-Free School Zones Act, which made it a federal offense to carry a firearm in a school zone. 

Thousands of community organizers have been demonstrating in Madison, Wisconsin – and a couple dozen others have mounted protests outside the home of US House Speaker John Boehner.  Some of these protests have been urged on by Organizing for America – Obama’s old group that helped him get elected.