On the Radio

With Sirius XM radio you can hear the darndest things on a four hour drive from Dallas to Houston, like the same live Obama speech told both in Ohio and later at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. After telling the same jokes—including a shout out from Bo the First Dog—the . . . . Continue Reading »

Joseph Cropsey and Andy Griffith

. . . both died very recently. I pretty much don’t enjoy reading Cropsey’s elusive writing much. His famous statement about America being the stage on which modern thought is played out in popular consciousness always struck me as quite the exaggeration. But it’s likely the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Constitutional Question(s)

So I agree with both James Ceaser and Peter Lawler.  Dr. Ceaser is right that the question of whether the mandate is constitutional has not at all been settled by the Supreme Court.  You have four Justices who think that the Obamacare scheme of mandate and penalty is . . . . Continue Reading »

So Am Back Home

Here’s a capable summary of parts of our on tap discussion the night before the Obamacare decision’s release. As you see, I didn’t protect the result. I came closer than many by calling attention to the fact that the Court couldn’t recommend effectively than the mandate be . . . . Continue Reading »