In a decision that will upset some military men I know, the Supreme Court finds that it is constitutional to lie about yourself. The case centered on Xavier Alvarez, a water-district board member in California, who was convicted of falsely claiming to be a Medal of Honor recipient. A federal . . . . 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 »
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 »
This is a great day for President Obama. The argument against Obamacare from constitutional norms has been fatally wounded to the extent of winning over persuadables. To the extent that pesuadables (especially fairly low information persuadables), feel in-their-bones that the government . . . . Continue Reading »
The Supreme Court just overruled multiple democratically elected legislatures to impose its policy preferences on the country by a narrow 5-4 majority. Keep that in mind tomorrow if (IF!) the Supreme Court strikes down the Obamacare individual health insurance purchase mandate. Just . . . . Continue Reading »
Since the beginning of the fiscal crisis in 2009, Greek politics has alternated periods of collapse with periods of decay. We are in one of the latter periods now. The bad news comes so often that it gets boring. Here is the latest batch: 1. Greece wants to renegotiate its . . . . Continue Reading »
For the past several decades, Christian activists have been concerned to apply Christian standards to the political and moral issues of our day. I support the effort in principle, and agree with much of the substance. Yet something is missing. In their obsession with discovering biblical standards . . . . Continue Reading »
In a 1993 article in the Intercollegiate Studies Review , Mark Henrie appeals to Alexander Kojeve to argue that “the differences between social democracy and American liberty are not as great as they may at first appear.” Kojeve also, he says, captures something “which has . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan Salam writing on why some Republican politicians have switched sides on a federal health insurance purchase mandate: As with SOPA, the fact that a large number of Republican lawmakers in 1993 backed an individual mandate doesn’t necessarily mean (alas) that they had thought deeply about . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The emerging strategy among Democrat-aligned journalists is way too inside baseball to help Obama in this election. According to polls, the median voter already thinks that the individual insurance purchase mandate is unconstitutional and should be struck down by the Supreme . . . . Continue Reading »
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