Overturning the whole law would be an act of judicial restraint. Mar 29, 2012 WSJ After the third and final day of Supreme Court scrutiny of the Affordable Care Act, the bravado of the legal establishment has turned to uncertainty and in some cases outright panic. Everyone who said the decision was an easy fait [...]

By Mark Alexander · Thursday, March 29, 2012 Keeping Black Folks Enslaved on the ObamaNation Plantation “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” –John Adams (1770) Barack Hussein Obama and black leaders from across the [...]

Mar 28, 2012 Gas Crisis: Feeling heat over pump prices, the president is taking credit for reduced foreign oil dependency and higher domestic oil production. But his own Cabinet doesn’t buy it. Borrowing a gimmick from Ross Perot, President Obama has taken to holding up a chart showing oil imports falling as a share of [...]

Mar 28, 2012 Leadership: A Democratic ex-Black Panther congressman is escorted off the House floor for disrespecting the institution by wearing a hoodie. Dividing Americans is no way to react to violence. What is more un-American than forgetting that someone is innocent until proven guilty? Yet Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., on [...]

Mar 28, 2012 Justice: After three days of listening to the government make its case for ObamaCare, one thing is clear: The individual mandate has no constitutional basis or justification, and the entire law should be struck down. We almost felt sorry for Donald Verrilli, the solicitor general who had to defend the constitutionally indefensible. [...]

Court arguments expose weakness of Obamacare’s foundation By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Wednesday, March 28, 2012 If the federal government can make individuals buy health insurance, there’s nothing to stop it from forcing everyone to purchase a particular cellphone. As Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. argued Tuesday, there’s no difference between saying [...]

Parsing President Obama’s private chat with Dmitry Medvedev. Mar 27, 2012 WSJ President Obama is a cool customer, so he knew what he was doing Tuesday when he made fun of having been inadvertently overheard on Monday during a chat with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the nuclear summit in South Korea. “First of all, [...]

A top Justice official interferes with a Supreme Court case. Mar 27, 2012 WSJ Readers may recall that the City of St. Paul, Minnesota in February withdrew a case that the Supreme Court had already agreed to hear—and the city thought it would win—under pressure from the Department of Justice (“Squeezed in St. Paul,” Feb. [...]

A bad day for unlimited government at the High Court. Mar 27, 2012 WSJ Tuesday’s two hours of Supreme Court oral arguments on ObamaCare’s individual mandate were rough-going for the government and its assertions of unlimited federal power. Several Justices are clearly taking seriously the Constitution’s structural checks and balances that are intended to protect [...]

Mar 27, 2012 Race: For 30 days, the left has tried to use Trayvon Martin’s tragic shooting death as proof that racism is alive and well in America. But as the facts finally emerge, that carefully nurtured narrative is falling apart. At first blush, the shooting certainly appears troubling. A 17-year-old African American carrying nothing [...]