Last week, during oral arguments the originalist justices on the Supreme Court missed a chance to pass the responsibility to create and enforce rights from the courts back to Congress.  more

For months, Republicans ripped Democrats for the closed-door nature of their healthcare reform negotiations. Yesterday, Democrats threw the doors open for 6 hours. They would have been better off keeping them closed.  more

The Democrats are despairing that Obamacare might not happen and the GOP may score big pickups in 2010. But the Bush and Clinton administrations show that presidents — even absent a supermajority in Congress — can still push through serious legislation.  more

This election cycle is proving such a target-rich environment for Republicans that they are now at risk of missing the long-term requirements for creating a lasting Senate majority. A win is a win – but some wins are better than others.  more

The Democratic majority in the Senate has the power to seat Scott Brown, the obvious landslide choice of the people of the Commonwealth, on Wednesday. And it should.  more

As the Catholic Church educates the faithful on their civic duties, it must take care to consider her tone, lest she come to be perceived as a mere appendage of the Republican party. The Catholic Church can never view voting as MTV does, an activity to participate in for the mere sake of participation.  more

In an era where portable GPS devices are accessible to the vast majority of Americans in their phones and in their cars, our air traffic control system continues to rely on an outdated World War II era radar system. The latest Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill is loaded with $1.7 billion in earmarks, but insufficient funds for air traffic modernization.  more

Students in Prince George’s County in the D.C. area arrived on the first day of school to find that administrators still had not scheduled classes for them. This failure will certainly have an adverse impact on black students in the county with the largest black middle class in the country. Republicans should use the opportunity to promote school vouchers.  more

Five months ago, the conventional wisdom in Washington was that Obama would achieve a transformational healthcare victory by the August recess. Now Senator Feingold is predicting that there will not be a bill before Christmas.  more

The GOP seems to have successfully exploited the resistance to Obama’s planned comprehensive makeover of the healthcare system. However, it is well past time for the GOP to offer a positive agenda on healthcare as well.  more

The public option is fundamentally at odds with the understanding of free markets and liberal societies held by most Americans.  more

In politics, it is easy to assume that everyone thinks just like the allies with whom you surround yourself.  more

According to a recent poll, Pat Toomey has pulled even with Arlen Specter in the 2010 Senate race in Pennsylvania. But conservatives should not get their hopes up about Toomey’s candidacy in a purple (at best) state where no Republican presidential candidate has won since 1988.  more

I can understand the President’s disappointment that a national conversation on race has displaced his national conversation on Obamacare. That said, a few questions remain about this episode.  more

Yesterday, the President compared the drive for health care reform with a previous generation’s success in putting a man on the moon.  more

President-elect Obama promoted a “grand bargain” that would ask all Americans to compromise in the interest of reform. But for all the talk of ‘shared sacrifice,’ Obamacare promises to secure the interests of the politically connected while taxpaying suburbanites get caught in the crossfire.  more

Sean Hannity’s summation of America’s founding philosophy is an outrageous corruption of the beliefs of our founding fathers.  more

Obamacare, contrary to its promise, will entrench rather than eliminate the Two Americas, maintaining a system of private coverage for the rich, and imposing a government bureaucracy that rations care on the middle class.  more

It is one thing to support reform of our national healthcare system. But I bet most Americans would balk at the creation of a national healthcare program. Yet in a moment of candor this weekend, Senator Chris Dodd, who is steering Democrats’ legislation through the HELP Committee, suggested that this was their long-term goal.  more

Today, the likelihood that the Democrats will be able to rush through a health care package before the August recess is increasingly in doubt.   more