I know. Pointing this out is unhelpful and possibly paranoid and conspiratorial, and anyway, if Limbaugh would just learn to say things in a way that the left can’t take him out of context, he wouldn’t run into these problems to begin with. So really, if you think about it, it’s mostly his fault. For not being more careful with what he says. Like, for instance, Tony Snow was. And

Yes. Republicans. It is they who are ‘politicizing’ Martin’s death — they who are organizing marches, they who are putting out bounties, they who are selling hoodies and t-shirts, they who have scheduled mock Congressional briefings, they who used the bully pulpit to call for a national soul-searching because we’re somehow collectively complicit in a young man being shot to death while beating a neighborhood watch captain in Florida. Republicans.

Jim Pethokoukis: Given the tone and substance of today’s arguments, it looks like there’s a decent chance the Supreme Court will not only toss Obamacare’s individual mandate (a 62% chance according to Intrade), but all of Obamacare as well. But then what? It seems highly unlikely—to say the least!—that any sort of replacement would pass this year. So now we are talking about 2013, where the issue would get sucked

Well, “conservative” Justices. The liberal justices, some of whom would prefer it if they’d taken an oath to the Canadian or South African Constitutions, one imagines, believe there’s no need to wreck all the goodly social justice just because those well-intentioned, moral legislators who pushed it on us failed to include a severability clause and accidentally overstepped their authority with respect to the (hoary, flawed) Constitution. After all, what’s the

In the comments to my earlier post today, a commenter expresses quite succinctly a view I’m starting to see rather often now on the right from those who are, it seems to me, looking for a way to distance themselves from what I contend is an important fight.  It is a quickly-spreading trope, and one I’d like to address here now.  Argues mt_ molehill: I don’t take a single prosecutor’s

Let’s just say it: our system has broken down.  We are now held hostage by a toxic blend of mob bravado, faux-righteous indignation, and identity politics such that we’re largely impotent in the face of what is an assault on due process and duly-passed state law that is despised by both progressive anti-gun advocates and criminals (who don’t ever really worry about anti-gun laws) alike. That our President and members