“Fla. judge sides with 26 states, strikes down Obama health care plan as unconstitutional”. Onward to the Supreme Court… **** update: From the ruling: It is difficult to imagine that a nation which began, at least in part, as the result of opposition to a British mandate giving the East India Company a monopoly and imposing a nominal tax on all tea sold in America would have set out to

“The most significant aspect of the president’s approach to foreign and national security policy is that he basically doesn’t care about it.”* In my quiet moments, I like to imagine that as having been uttered in full-bodied, manly stereo.

Food for thought. So to speak. (h/t sdferr, geoffb, and Rush Limbaugh)

Newt Gingrich loves him some ethanol subsidies! As does Mitch Daniels. And Rick Santorum. Prompting the question, are there any viable GOP candidates for president in 2012? WSJ: The last time these columns were lambasted by a presidential candidate in Iowa, he was Democrat Richard Gephardt and the year was 1988. The Missouri populist won the state caucuses in part on the rallying cry that “we’ve got to stop listening

Sure, Democrats likely think that foregrounding the TEA Party hurts Republicans — but then, they also think that pushing increased spending and a high speed rail system is just the fix this ailing economy is calling for. So there’s that.

Or so I’ve heard it said. Legal Insurrection: Akin Gump should have just said what it really meant: “We are afraid that left-wing bloggers and others who hate Power Line will make a big deal about this and try to use it against the firm to disrupt our relationship with clients who pay us millions of dollars in legal fees each year.” If Akin Gump had justified its actions based

The time to stop kicking the can down the road is here: Moody’s has previously warned that when interest owed reaches 18 to 20 percent of revenue, the nation would be in line for a downgrade. By 2018, the CBO reports that the U.S. will reach that level if Obama’s ten-year budget is enacted. That would mean higher borrowing costs, making it far more expensive for the U.S. to refinance

Hope and change? Or change and hope? the overriding mood in Washington Sunday remained a cautious optimism that the secular forces visibly leading the protests over the last six days would be central to any new leadership, and that the Brotherhood – which many observers say has learned to accept ordinary political life – would be only part of the picture. “Egypt is not Iran. [The Muslim Brotherhood] don’t have

A thread to post links and discuss what’s happening in Egypt right now — and the response by the US, its allies, and its foes. For instance, here are a couple links to get you started: America’s secret backing of a revolutionary movement? And why is the Muslim Brotherhood using “days of rage”? Anyone? Bill? Bernardine? (h/t Pablo) Place new links in the comments below as they become available.

Just so’s to make explicit, by juxtaposition, just where we’re going and where we have been.