Obama’s DNC acceptance speech long on rhetoric and short on coherent policy

Richard Epstein analyzes Obama’s speech at the close of the Democrat convention and dubs Obama the “preacher-in-chief.” Epstein’s post at the Hoover Institution should be read in full.  Here are the best lines, the first after a review of both … Continue reading

Did Roberts hand a big defeat to the legal left with his shambles of an opinion in the Obamacare case?

James Taranto who writes the Best of the Web Today column for The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal webpage thinks so.  I think it was a small defeat that won’t stop the left one bit, but Taranto is a giant so … Continue reading

Obamacare In the Supreme Court — Uncommon Knowledge

Peter Robinson is a former speech writer for Ronald Reagan. He wrote the line, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” that Reagan delivered so well at the Brandenburg Gate, June 12, 1987. He has for the last several years taped … Continue reading