I hope this is true. From Red State:With John Roberts’ opinion, the repeal fight takes place on GOP turf, not Democrat turf. The all or nothing repeal has always been better ground for the GOP and now John Roberts has forced everyone onto that ground. Oh, and as I mentioned . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an expansion of something I wrote in a thread: If Roberts really thinks that the federal insurance purchase mandate is constitutional, then he he ought to sleep well. If Roberts ruled in favor of the mandate as some kind of act of judicial statesmanship (well . . . maybe it will get . . . . Continue Reading »
I wrote a quick piece for the Daily Caller about the Obamacare ruling that gets to the nub of what happened today. From “Obamacare Ruling Reflects Technocratic Imperative:”Why is anyone surprised? Obamacare was never going to be overturned. Not that it is constitutional, as the . . . . Continue Reading »
O.K., I’ll admit it up front. I haven’t yet read the decision, so I’m going entirely by what I’ve read about decision, which amounts mainly to half-digested reactions. My first thoughts are subject to massive revision, after I’ve had the time to read and . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing for the Washington Post , Matt Franck steps back from today’s ruling and asks how Christians should respond: Although the Supreme Court has upheld President Obamas signature health care law, we are bound in this election year to have a renewed conversation on what the federal . . . . Continue Reading »
It is amazing that in their zeal to validate Obamacare, the Supreme Court majority gave the government relief for which it didn’t ask! From the ruling:In making its Commerce Clause argument, the Government defended the mandate as a regulation requiring individuals to purchase health . . . . Continue Reading »
isn’t necessarily the Chief Justice John Roberts-written opinion - or rather it is necessarily going to be the Roberts-written opinion for very long. In his majority opinion, Roberts wrote that the interstate commerce clause does not give Congress the power to mandate that individuals . . . . Continue Reading »
Those who claimed that Obamacare violated the Commerce Clause were right. From the Supreme Court ruling:People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failuresjoined with the similar failures of otherscan readily . . . . Continue Reading »
Leroy Huizenga on real liturgical renewal : Raise up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it, teaches Proverbs. For me, this has been the case regarding worship. I was raised a Lutheran, in an older, established congregation belonging to what would become the . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel, commenting on Theodore Maynard’s The Story of American Catholicism , highlights the commitment that early American Catholics had to religious freedom: Because of their own theological tradition, Maryland Catholics (and their brethren in Pennsylvania) could have embraced . . . . Continue Reading »