William Burroughs used to write, back in the jet-age 60’s, about starting a riot with a tape recorder. You ask some people their opinion of a different group, and record their responses, then take them to members of that group, and ask what they think of it, and record their responses, then take them back… Read More A Short List of Things I Do Not Care About
Please shut up about Harriet Miers. Harriet Miers was not nominated for the post on the Supreme Court that went to John Roberts. Harriet Miers was nominated for the post that went to Samuel Alito, after conservatives had this reaction to Harriet Miers: So please stop all references to Miers vis-a-vis the ObamaCare ruling, such as… Read More Harriet Miers Would Not Have Saved Our Bacon, Or A Message to the Ignorami on My Side of the Aisle
From that evergreen source of real news, Ace’s sidebar. This guy is not kidding. “The President’s health care law must be fully repealed as all of its promises have proven false. We were told it was not a tax hike, but this ruling confirms it is an unprecedented and enormous tax on the poor and… Read More Jim DeMint Calls For ObamaCare Resistance
Don’t like the law? Just re-write it! The dissent acknowledges that if an ambiguous law can be read in a way that renders it constitutional, it should be. It distinguishes, though, between construing a law charitably and rewriting it. The latter is what Chief Justice John Roberts has done. If Roberts believes that this tactic… Read More NRO: Robert’s Folly, AKA the Return of Earl Warren
Protein Wisdom was right, and we were wrong. Roberts has surrendered to Leviathan, and given us a ruling that makes no sense on a law that makes no sense. The AFA (ObamaCare) cannot be justified under the commerce clause, but can be justified as a tax. The Administration explicitly said it was not a tax,… Read More Good Thing John Roberts was So Carefully Vetted…
If you stretch the meaning of “unconstitutional” past the point of all usefulness, sure. I should like this argument more than I actually do. It’s originalist at root, and the guy has damning quotes from Hamilton and Madison about the evils of super-majorities. In terms of reforming or ending the filibuster, he makes a solid… Read More Is the Filibuster Un-Constitutional?
Glenn Reynolds’ column on the Obamacare arguments hits on an oft-ignored theme: The subjects entrusted to the federal government by the Constitution — those largely “external” powers — simply don’t lend themselves to corruption. On the other hand, when the government lays a heavy regulatory hand on almost every business and industry, the temptation for… Read More The Bigger the Government Is, the More Corrupt
It’s been fun enjoying the schock and upset of proggies at the possibility that Obamacare could be smacked down. John Podhoretz summed up decades worth of conservative griping about the left in a single paragraph: They’re so convinced of their own correctness — and so determined to believe conservatives are either a) corrupt, b) stupid… Read More Let’s Not Start Pulling Each Other’s Taffy Just Yet…
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