Brandon Greife

District Court Judge Henry Hudson gave an early Christmas present to many conservatives this week, ruling that the individual mandate in the Democrats’ healthcare bill is unconstitutional. (more)

Nancy Pelosi’s insistence on remaining the leader of Democrats in the House of Representatives has made clear how shockingly out of touch Pelosi is with the rest of the country. Pelosi and Obama are upper-crust versions of Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne. They are bumbling around, clueless to what is going on around them, but forever confidently reassuring themselves that “someday we’ll get our break too, we’ve got to keep our eyes open.”  For everyone else, unfortunately, this misadventure is not quite as funny as the Farrelly brothers’ slapstick classic. In fact it is incredibly somber. The consequence of their odyssey is a tab of I.O.U.s that will take more than one briefcase to fill and more than one generation to pay back. (more)

For years, the subject of public sector pensions raised the ire of heard, but never seen, conspiracy theorists. As the years passed, public sector pensions continued to grow with no oversight and very little public pushback. In the shadows, they have grown into a ravaging monstrosity, a Frankenstein’s monster that is threatening the financial wellbeing of our local and state governments. It is pillaging and terrorizing the countryside. (more)

Albert Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” By that definition, President Obama has gone insane. Or perhaps he’s not so much insane as he is just suffering from a bout of memory loss. Does he not remember how badly his previous effort at pumping money into the economy went? Nevertheless, here we are, a year and a half later, and creeping unemployment remains undeterred by the federal government’s intervention. And yet the president is pitching another stimulus. (more)

“Things could be worse.” (more)

One of Plato’s most famous works is The Trial of Socrates, which outlines Socrates’ discourse with his Athenian jurors as he contests the two charges against him: corrupting the youth and impiety. The charges were notoriously vague and served as a mere vessel for a much deeper question – the legitimacy of democracy. (more)