Krauthammer, on “Constitutionalism”: Americans are in the midst of a great national debate over the power, scope and reach of the government established by that document. The debate was sparked by the current administration’s bold push for government expansion – a massive fiscal stimulus, Obamacare, financial regulation and various attempts at controlling the energy economy. This engendered a popular reaction, identified with the Tea Party but in reality far more

Barton Hinkle: So look back at two of the chief disputes from 2010. You will find something curious in the kernels. The first debate concerned health care reform. Strip away the seemingly endless details, and the argument from advocates boiled down to a simple proposition: that health care should be “a right for every American.” That is how Barack Obama put it in a 2008 debate. A year and a

Harsanyi: it’s social conservatism that will most often turn those with secular sensibilities away from the right. Even within the movement, a libertarian vs. social conservative debate has roiled on forever. This dynamic is only going to change when political expediency becomes a force more powerful than faith — which is to say the day after we pay off the national debt. Now, it’s true that social conservatives can be

But “Memphis Beat” — in which Jason Lee plays a singing New Orleans detective, and DJ Qualls a bumbling patrolman? Gets a second season. It’s a madhouse. A maaaaaaaadhouse…!