From whichever of the 58 states is your vantage point, this hasn’t exactly been a well-oiled machine.
And other than the clunkers, all those mishaps involve things the government actually has some experience running. It has no experience commanding the gargantuan swath of the economy represented by health care. The thought that there won’t be gargantuan mistakes and politically driven caprice if we’re nuts enough to let them do this is, well, nuts.


We don’t have courts to manage wars or coddle alien enemies. The point of the American judiciary is to protect Americans from the inevitable excesses of a government that is supposed to serve the citizens, not dictate to them.


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From whichever of the 58 states is your vantage point, this hasn’t exactly been a well-oiled machine.
And other than the clunkers, all those mishaps involve things the government actually has some experience running. It has no experience commanding the gargantuan swath of the economy represented by health care. The thought that there won’t be gargantuan mistakes and politically driven caprice if we’re nuts enough to let them do this is, well, nuts.


We don’t have courts to manage wars or coddle alien enemies. The point of the American judiciary is to protect Americans from the inevitable excesses of a government that is supposed to serve the citizens, not dictate to them.


Which brings us back to the Left and the rule of law. Remember the state of play when Democrats demanded wartime judicial rights for terrorists? Throughout two-plus centuries of warfare, the millions of alien enemy combatants captured by U.S. forces had never had the privilege of access to our courts. Simply to say aloud that wartime enemies had a right to haul into the American people’s courts the government officials waging a war authorized by the American people’s elected representatives was to illustrate the absurdity of the proposition.


It was “obvious,” the Supreme Court had reasoned in 1950, that the Bill of Rights “denies enemy aliens the constitutional immunities of citizens.” That was why “executive power over enemy aliens, undelayed and unhampered by litigation, has been deemed, throughout our history, essential to war-time security.” With evident horror, the justices observed that to give foes trying to vanquish our nation the benefit of our judicial system