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The Supremes, Sotomayor, and racial jurisprudence.
June 30, 2009
The Supreme Court closed an otherwise unremarkable term on a high note yesterday, rejecting the notion that one kind of racial bias can be remedied by another. On the last day of opinions before the Court is potentially joined by Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the Justices overturned one of [...]

The health-care systems Democrats want to emulate don’t allow contingency fees or large jury awards.
June 30, 2009
By Richard A. Epstein
By RICHARD A. EPSTEIN
In his recent speech to the American Medical Association, President Barack Obama held out the tantalizing possibility of reforming medical malpractice law as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. health-care system. [...]

The audacity of hope gives way to the timidity of realism.
June 30, 2009
By Bret Stephans
President Obama’s Iran policy is incoherent and obsolete. Maybe David Axelrod should take note.
On Sunday, Mr. Obama’s consigliere was asked about Iran by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and NBC’s David Gregory. Mr. Gregory asked whether there “should be consequences” for the regime’s [...]

Scalia invites assaults on national banks.
June 30, 2009
Eliot Spitzer has departed the national stage in ignominy, but the damage he did as an unrestrained state Attorney General lives on, notably in a dubious 5-4 victory yesterday before the Supreme Court.
The case is Cuomo v. Clearing House Association, but it was Mr. Spitzer, New York AG [...]

Expect Congress to seriously consider a value-added tax.
June 30, 2009
By ROGER C. ALTMAN
Only five months after Inauguration Day, the focus of Washington’s economic and domestic policy is already shifting. This reflects the emergence of much larger budget deficits than anyone expected. Indeed, federal deficits may average a stunning $1 trillion annually over the next 10 [...]

June 30, 2009
By George Will
WASHINGTON — Although New Haven’s firefighters deservedly won in the Supreme Court, it is deeply depressing that they won narrowly — 5-4. The egregious behavior by that city’s government, in a context of racial rabble-rousing, did not seem legally suspect to even one of the court’s four liberals, whose harmony seemed [...]

June 30, 2009
By Tomas Sowell
Most political and media discussions of medical care have an air of unreality reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. There is an abundance of catch-phrases but remarkably few coherent arguments.
Let’s start at square one. Why is there alarm about American medical care? The most usual reason given is because its cost is [...]

June 30, 2009
By Mona Charen
The news that Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was removed from his post and spirited out of the country by the Honduran military has elicited official condemnations from the governments of France, Ecuador, Chile, Spain, and Argentina; as well as protests from the Organization of American States and the United Nations. The [...]

June 30, 2009
By David Limbaugh
There is so much misinformation on the subject of global warming and so little consensus — as to what environmental changes are occurring, whether human behavior is contributing to them, whether they are causing significant environmental damage, and whether the proposed cap and trade legislation would do anything to alleviate any [...]