As the Republican presidential candidates struggle to finish first or second in the usually crucial South Carolina primary, they seem to be ignoring an important political rule, summed up in the Boy Scouts' motto: "Be prepared."

Congress has never before passed and the Supreme Court has never upheld a law requiring individuals to buy a commercial product, as Obamacare does. On this the Obama Democrats, not Clarence Thomas and judges following his lead, are the ones sweeping aside precedent.

Rather than have the government stretch the meaning of statutes and evidence, Congress and the president should enact a statute that straightforwardly makes it illegal to publish or circulate materials that support, praise, or advocate terrorism as long as we are still formally at war with al Qaeda and its allies.

Justice Clarence Thomas's decisive opinion in McDonald v. Chicago, which held that the Second Amendment limits the power of the states, was principled jurisprudence based clearly on the text of the Constitution.

The U.S. is more active on trade policy than it has been in years.  President Obama is meeting with Canada and Mexico about new agreements, Congress will hold hearings on changing decades-old trade law, and the federal government will more broadly be bringing several cases before the WTO.

Yet, in constructing...

In his 2011 State of the Union Address, with six members of the Supreme Court present, President Obama famously attacked the Court’s Citizen’s United decision. At the center of Obama’s criticism was his completely erroneous contention that the decision opened the floodgates to foreign corporate spending in U.S. election campaigns.

A controversial dimension of the financial crisis has been the role of credit ratings and the perverse incentives facing rating organizations.