Government is growing ever more intrusive and arrogant, George Will argues in an important new article. And judges have enabled it to do so.

Even if Kate Masur is right that partisanship and race define the politics of granting representation to the District, Congress still has an obligation to uphold the Constitution. Congress lacks the power to grant the District representation by legislation alone.

Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul eloquently defends capitalism and free enterprise in his Republican primary victory speech:

Charles Kesler has an important article in the May 17 issue of National Review (republished online over at Claremont Conservative) on the importance of constitutionalism. The penultimate paragraph highlights the importance of restoring the Constitution to its rightful place: In the current crisis, conservative efforts to restore the separation of powers may even be more […]

Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from January 12^th to January 14^th.

Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from August 9^th to August 11^th.

Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from July 28^th to July 30^th.

In his analysis of the ongoing Henry Louis Gates embroglio, Christopher Hitchens makes a startling assertion (which Jason Kottke approvingly quotes). In defense of Prof. Gates, he writes (emphasis added) that It is the U.S. Constitution, and not some competitive agglomeration of communities or constituencies, that makes a citizen the sovereign of his own home […]

Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from July 13^th to July 21^st.

Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from July 3^rd to July 6^th.