By: Terence P. Jeffrey

On November 14, 2011, the Supreme Court agreed to review the constitutionality of President Obama’s health-care act. The central question is, What limits does the Constitution — specifically, the Commerce Clause — impose upon the federal government’s exercise of power? This health-care act is the defining legislation of the president’s term, and the issue of limited government is at the very heart of the debate between Obama and his opponents

When Pliny the Younger was a provincial governor in the Roman Empire, he wrote a letter to Emperor Trajan asking whether he should execute Christians who refused to burn incense in worship of the emperor. Pliny, in keeping with the customs of the empire, did not care about forcing Christians to believe that the emperor was a god.

If there’s one thing about the Marxists controlling today’s unions, it is that they are

The Obama administration is exploring a shift in the military’s mission in Afghanistan to an advisory role as soon as next year, a move that would scale back U.S.

While being grilled by co-host Ann Curry on Wednesday's NBC Today on Arizona's illegal immigration law causing racial discrimination, Governor Jan Brewer hit back and declared: “I believe truly that the media and others have tried to throw out that race card to shut down the debate. It's not about that. It's about illegal immigration.” Audio available here Earlier, Curry fretted: “Now what would justify such a law that required people, essentially, to carry papers, identification, something that proved that they're American citizens?” Brewer replied: “…it's under reasonable suspicion, it's no different than what law enforcement actually does today….So it's a simple issue, and the press, the liberal media tried to blow that completely totally out of perspective.” View video after the jump Curry pressed Brewer on whether police in Arizona would racially profile: “You say the people in Arizona are not racist or bigots

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**Written by Doug Powers Joe Biden has said the administration owns the economy now, but the President Obama has been a little slower to come on board… until now. From Real Clear Politics : WCCO-TV correspondent: “When I finally did have a chance to talk to President Obama one-on-one, I asked him at what point does the economy become his fault and not his predecessor’s?” President Barack Obama: “It’s always my responsibility.

Saw a headline that made me smile, I swear: “Obama’s team banks on his ‘regular guy’ appeal.” (Article here .) Our president, regular guy? Where? An Antioch faculty lounge

Washington Democrats are not just out to lunch on jobs. They have devoured the entire buffet table.

Conn Carroll Senior Editorial Writer “When I started the business, I’d very rarely ever get some information from the government that I had to really pay that much attention to,” David Cranston, president of Cranston Material Handling Equipment Corp. of Pittsburgh, says in a new Small Businesses for Sensible Regulations video

President Barack Obama pushed his economic agenda to a military audience on the third day of his trip through North Carolina and Virginia, this time with first lady Michelle Obama at his side.

Obama authorized deployment of up to 100 combat-equipped U.S. troops to central Africa to help hunt down leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army.

**Written by Doug Powers In 2009, a weepy Nancy Pelosi denounced rhetoric she claimed was coming from the Tea Parties, claiming the protest could lead to a climate of violence.

The Islamic democracy project is nothing if not beguiling. From Clinton’s Orwellian “peace process” through Bush’s cloying “freedom agenda” to Obama’s contortion of an Islamist ascendancy into “the Arab Spring,” the dream teems with self-congratulation, so much so that its debilitating downsides go unseen and unaddressed.

Left-wing actor Sean Penn slimed the Tea Party as motivated by racism, charging on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight on Friday evening that an impediment to President Obama’s success is “what I call the ‘Get the N-word out of the White House party,’ the Tea Party.” At a time when Herman Cain tops polls of Republican primary voters, Penn proceeded to allege, without citing any evidence, that “there’s a big bubble coming out of their heads saying, you know, ‘can we just lynch him?’” (video below) In between Penn’s two jabs intended to discredit the Tea Party, Piers Morgan helpfully boasted of how actor Morgan Freeman, on his show three weeks ago, “was very passionate about that very subject, saying there are elements of the Tea Party who just, as he said, want to get the black man out of the White House. He said it on this show.” Audio: MP3 clip which matches the video Indeed, Piers Morgan’s program has become the place for celebrities to disparage the Tea Party. As recounted by NB’s Noel Sheppard, on the September 23 show, Morgan Freeman asserted the Tea Party’s attitude is “we’re going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here.” The night before, actor Alan Cumming of The Good Wife , denounced the Tea Party as driven by “homophobia and racism.” Of course, Penn is not opposed to all protest movements: “I applaud the spirit of what’s happening now on Wall Street.” From the pre-recorded interview on the Friday, October 14 Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN: SEAN PENN: I would love to see Barack Obama be Bulworth

All those Occupiers holding their “End the War!” signs better march on over to the White House. President Obama just announced he’s sending U.S.

**Written by Doug Powers On Thursday, Republicans brought to the House floor a bill on prohibiting federal funds from being used to pay for any part of a health plan that covers abortions under the Obamacare law. Predictably, Nancy Pelosi immediately flew into full-Pelosi mode : At a press conference on Capitol Hill today, a reporter asked Pelosi, “Can you comment on the abortion bill the GOP is bringing to the House floor tonight?” Pelosi said: “Under this abortion bill, when the Republicans vote for this bill today, they will be voting to say that women can die on the floor and health care providers do not have to intervene, if this bill is passed.

**Written by Doug Powers Last month, President Obama warned us that if we didn’t help get the jobs bill passed, our chances of dying in a bridge collapse would rise. Today, Joe Biden upped the ante while in Flint, Michigan trying to resuscitate the same jobs bill the Senate voted down yesterday. Transcript via Weekly Standard : “In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city,” Biden said