Potential good and bad for the year ahead.

Perhaps the Supreme Court can make up for some past mistakes

Constitutionalism should be the right goal.

It’s good news, but let’s not get too excited.

Sadly, the fears for 2019 may be more likely than the hopes.

What the court gets wrong about the role of government in our economy.

The Court asks as a pseudo-legislature.

When I write about the importance of understanding the difference between a disease and its symptoms, I’m almost always seeking to help people understand why it’s important to focus on the problem of government spending rather than the side-effect of government borrowing. But the same analogy is useful when looking at issues such as lobbying […]

’m not a lawyer, or an expert on the Constitution, though I sometimes play one on TV. But I can read, and I’ll agree with my friends on the left that the federal government has a broad power to tax. I wish the 16th Amendment had never been ratified, but its language gives the federal […]