Last week’s Supreme Court’s decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act shocked court observers for no less than three reasons.  First, the court held that the law is constitutional.  Second, it did so under Congress’s taxing authority, not its “Commerce Clause” power.  And third, its opinion was authored by Chief Justice John […]

            I officiated at the wedding of two of my former students last month, and the occasion, coupled with my own anniversary (#34) earlier this month and the fact that June is the month for weddings, makes this column appropriate.  I originally wrote it twelve years ago, following a celebration of my parent’s 60th wedding […]

            Omaha, Nebraska is probably not where you’d want to spend a week at this time of the year, unless hot and humid, mixed with severe thunderstorms, is your idea of an ideal climate.             But Omaha is where I was last week (for the eighth time in the last ten years, every year at […]

            President Obama got himself in trouble last week when he attempted to make a valid point about public sector jobs.  The gaffe, as all the right-wing talk show pundits and conservative op-ed columnists were quick to call it, was to say that the private sector was “doing fine.”              One person’s gaffe might be […]