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April 4, 2012 — Scott Johnson

Judicial review, Chicago style

Featured image When it comes to jurisprudence, Barack Obama is a partisan of the Chicago school. Help friends. Hurt enemies. Take control. That’s what Obamacare is all about, as we have seen in the ongoing battle between Obama and the Church. Obama stated one version of the Chicago doctrine during the 2008 campaign: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” It’s not an original thought; Obama was »
April 1, 2012 — Scott Johnson

Left comes for the archbishop

Featured image President Obama promoted Obamacare with a relentlessly repeated set of misrepresentations regarding that 2,700-page bill: “If you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.” He set some kind of an indoor record for falsity per word with these whoppers. Even so, the American people caught on to »
March 4, 2012 — Scott Johnson

Adventures in Ad Law, cont’d

Featured image The whole idea of “administrative law” — regulations with the force of law promulgated by executive agencies pursuant to powers delegated by Congress — squares uneasily at best with the Constitution and its scheme of separated powers. Obamacare presents us with a case study that amounts to a reductio ad absurdum. The agencies promulgating Obamacare regulations will produce a code that rivals the United States Code in length and complexity. »
February 10, 2012 — John Hinderaker

CPAC Ups and Downs

Featured image I couldn’t get away to CPAC this year, but Steve is there and we are looking forward to his reports. In the meantime, from afar, here are a few observations. The Occupiers made good on their threat to invade CPAC today. Unfortunately, they didn’t have any burly union members with them, and the invasion didn’t go well. Even CBS didn’t seem impressed: In an overflow room next door to the »
January 27, 2012 — Steven Hayward

Newt Vs. Reagan, The Sequel

Featured image Both Elliott Abrams, at National Review Online, and, as John Hinderaker noted yesterday, Pete Wehner (quoting from my book) have brought up Newt Gingrich’s pungent criticisms of Reagan back in the 1980s, supposedly giving the lie to Newt’s claim to have been solidly aligned with Reagan in those glory days of conservative nostalgia.  It is perfectly fair of Elliott and Pete to call Newt on his revisionist history, but what »
January 25, 2012 — Steven Hayward

How About A State of Liberalism Address?

Featured image When Bill Clinton used his 1996 State of the Union address to kick off his ultimately successful re-election campaign, he uttered one of the few SOTU lines that people still remember: “The era of big government is over.”  It did not matter narrowly that this was another Clinton lie; he went on in that speech to outline something like 97 small ways government could get bigger, from school uniforms to »
January 12, 2012 — Steven Hayward

Law & Order, Obama Style

Featured image Through a long chain of circumstances not worth recounting here, I ended up having breakfast yesterday in Los Angeles with former California Congressman Tom Campbell, who has lately succeeded my old graduate school roommate, John Eastman (a frequent guest on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show), as dean of Chapman University Law School.  Campbell is known among conservative circles in California as something of a RINO, but in our conversation about the »
January 3, 2012 — Steven Hayward

Iowa Game Day Notes

Featured image So today’s it’s the Iowa Caucus Bowl, matching up the three strongest teams from the last coaches’ poll of the BCS series. . . wait, no, that was yesterday.  I’m still working off my football hangover, and marveling that yet again Stanford proves itself to be the biggest gridiron head case since Wrong Way Riegels, as I suppose befits a brainiac university. The GOP field has seemingly featured nothing but »