Unca Darrell

JUNE 16 / Excellent editorial on Obamism's tactical retreat

[THE] TOWERING ambitions of Mr. Obama's first two years have suddenly gone into abeyance in this third, apparently to be deferred until years five through eight. The White House is more or less conceding that it doesn't have a chance of winning a second term unless his major policies go on hiatus.

JUNE 15 / Inappropriate usage

THE PRESIDENT says Congressman Weiner's conduct was "highly inappropriate."

Inappropriate is . . . 

JUNE 14 / A marvelous essay for Flag Day

THE NATION over which Old Glory flies is . . . highly unusual -- indeed, exceptional. Alone among the nations of the world . . .

JUNE 13 / UPDATED: Why Unca D and other conservatives worry about Romney

THE POINT of the 2012 election is to change the agenda. On too many issues, Mr. Romney . . . 

JUNE 8 / How to solve the spending crisis?

Spend more.

So says . . .  

JUNE 6 / It's not what law professors don't know

Most American con law professors teach baby law students that Lochner v. New York was one of the worst-ever Supreme Court decisions, right up there with Plessy v. Ferguson -- "a case in which a court packed with business sympathizers stuck it to the little guy in a shameless display of judicial activism." 

The only problem: It just ain't . . . 

JUNE 5 / False religion

SAID JILL ABRAMSON upon her elevation to executive editor of the New York Times: 

In my house growing up the Times substituted for . . . 

JUNE 4 / Numbers

100,000,000,000,000

The largest-denomination piece of paper currency ever . . .