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The legal professoriate and commentariat are completely unhinged over the impending demise of the individual mandate. ... Let's go to the transcript and try to explain this one more time, in terms that even the Harvard crowd may be able to comprehend.

I can't remember a more stunning rebuke of a president by a congressional leader than Speaker John Boehner's refusal to agree to Barack Obama's demand that he summon a joint session of Congress to hear the president's latest speech on the economy. It illustrates several of the weaknesses of this presidency.

Abraham Lincoln was the greatest of our presidents. He saved the Union, which made it possible for him to free the slaves. But he did more than this; without him we probably would have had no reason to celebrate the bicentennial first of the Declaration of Independence and then of...

Even with few questions on the nation’s fiscal position and foreign policy, most of the Republican candidates performed pretty well. If that’s the way the Republican primary voters and caucusgoers see things, the result may be to tighten the race for the nomination.

All levels of government face growing pressures to restrain spending. One downside to the rapid growth in tax-financed health spending that I have documented in several prior posts is the vulnerability of the health system to measures taken to curb government spending. But the degree of such vulnerability varies dramatically across different components of the health sector.

No branch of the Armed Forces better epitomizes both the promise and the peril of American superpower than the United States Navy. Unrivaled in its ability to project conventional military strength across the world's oceans, the Pentagon's fleet of ships and submarines is increasingly challenged by a range of new...