There will be a big surprise when the US SC finally rules on the health care law. The winning issue will be protecting the health care system from free loaders (those with no health insurance who show up at hospitals for treatment) by requiring everyone to habe insurance. An obvious fit within the Commerce Clause. Scalia will love it. The 11th Circuit will go for it, too.

The idea that every legislative act should have been stated in the constitution is false. The enumeration argument failed during the Constitutional Congress when the Framers reached a compromise. The protesters do not know the history of our democracy. Even the Framers who had wanted enumeration accepted the compromises and behaved responsibly. Remember, the need for a new constitution resulted from the numerous problems that occurred under the Articles of Confederation which the U.S...

The 10th Amendment was a compromise between those who wanted to "enumerate" the federal powers and those who wanted to leave the potential powers unenumerated and therefore open in order to allow for changing circumstances over time. The compromise clearly favored the "no enumeration" side of the debate. The US Supreme Court (which, as Justice John Marshal wrote, "says what the law is") has over its many years of interpreting the Constitution never upheld a "tenther" type claim. The...

I understand that the iron rnge people need jobs. But please do not elect someone who wants to mine nickel and copper. Nickel especially is disastrous to the environment. Drive up to Sudbury, Ontario sometime and look at the miles of wasteland (literally) that were created by open pit nickel mines -- no trees, nothing green, black rock everywhere. The environment of the north woods would be devastated.