Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The Supreme Court opinion on ObamaCare runs to 193 pages. It is the size of a book, only more boring than any book anyone would ever want to read — and that is true despite the fact that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the worst writer on the court, didn’t write it.
Continue readingDon Quixote and I were talking today about the Commerce Clause. We weren’t saying anything original. We were simply wondering whether the Supreme Court, in ruling on ObamaCare, will address the vast reach of the Commerce Clause and whether it will (a) reaffirm that reach; (b) reverse that reach entirely
Continue readingKarl Rove has written a WSJ op-ed, the title of which is “Obama’s Campaign Will Take the Low Road.” I haven’t even read Rove’s piece — which I’m sure is good — but I already know he’s right. Obama’s campaign will take the low road because there is no high
Continue readingThere’s a lot of buzz lately about an article David R. Dow, who is the Cullen Professor at the University of Houston Law Center and the Rorschach Visiting Professor of History at Rice, about the Supreme Court’s ObamaCare hearings. In it, he insists that, if the Supreme Court justices overturn
Continue readingIn the days and weeks preceding oral argument before the Supreme Court on ObamaCare, all Democrat (politicians and pundits) and a surprising number of conservatives were convinced that the Supreme Court would sustain ObamaCare. After two and a half days of argument, the conventional wisdom has suddenly shifted. Democrats are
Continue readingThis guy turned out to be a Dope, rather than offering Hope: These Drudge headlines, though, do offer hope, real hope for a resurgent constitutionalism in America: Reminder to self: Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. Beware hubris. Don’t put the horse before the cart.
Continue readingThese aren’t new points, but I like the way Krauthammer expressed them, as part of a longer article about the problems with ObamaCare and the fact that those problems, after going underground for a year, have burst into the light again: Serendipitously, the recently issued regulation on contraceptivecoverage has allowed
Continue readingA video that illustrates why the Democrats’ recurrent analogy between mandatory car insurance and mandatory health insurance works perfectly — works perfectly, that is, if you want to show the absurdity of mandatory insurance.
Continue readingI’m processing (that’s a euphemism for “paying”) bills, which is hogging a ridiculous amount of the space in my head. Nevertheless, there are three things I wanted to bring to your attention. First, you’ve probably heard already that Obama, as part of his proposal to cut military spending, is slashing
Continue readingConservatives of all religious stripes have been attacking the ObamaCare mandate regarding birth control and abortifacients on religious grounds. The Obama administration’s response was to introduce an “accommodation” under which the insurance companies will henceforth offer these medicines and services for “free.” Anybody past the age of five understands that,
Continue readingBack at the end of the 16th century, Thomas Hobson ran a livery stable (which, in pre-auto times, was the equivalent of a car rental place). Unlike other livery stables, he refused to allow his customers free pick of horses. Instead, they were told that they could take the horse
Continue readingPathetic is a very strong derogatory word, but I think it’s apt when looking at Kathleen Sebelius’ defense for the Obama administration’s recent mandate that all employers must purchase insurance that provides their employees with birth control, sterilization and morning-after pills. A fisking is in order (all hyperlinks in original
Continue readingI hadn’t looked closely at what Sebelius said when promulgating the new ObamaCare rules that require religious organizations to fund birth control, sterilization, and morning-after pills. Hugh Hewitt, however, did look — and caught something interesting: The press release that accompanied the new rule didn’t mention “Catholics” or “Catholic institutions,”
Continue readingJonathan Last has as good a summation as any I’ve seen of the now open warfare between Barack Obama and his erstwhile ally, the fairly liberal American Catholic Church. The article ends with an effort to understand why Obama would pick this battle, and why he would pick it now.
Continue readingIn the past week, two decisions came out regarding the way in which private organizations spend their money. The first decision was the Obama administration’s announcement that businesses in America must provide their employees with insurance that covers birth control, sterilization, and abortifacients. The only exception was for businesses that
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