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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Delivery Tuesday Edition Posted: 01 Feb 2011 03:10 AM PST I’m excited about the podcast recording tonight. I’ve lined up a couple great guests — Peter Robinson and James Pethokoukis — and we’re going to talk about Ronald Reagan on the occasion of his 100th Birthday, the upcoming Stephen King Dark Tower multimedia extravaganza, and a few other things. It’s going to be a fantastic show and I know you’ll enjoy it. And now, links! Stephen Green: “Do We Even Have an Egyptian Policy?” From the way the administration has failed to react, I’d say we don’t have much of one. Reagan and Obama? Seriously? When will The Politico stop its hateful rhetoric toward the state of Iowa? You’ll never guess what’s really killing the city of Detroit. I guess it’s okay to hobnob with corporate lobbyists if you’re a Democrat and you’re trying to transfer a few billion dollars into their pockets under the guise of “green tech”. Shocker: The GOP has no perfect potential candidates for 2012! I guess it’s good Gaia theology if it terrorizes a six year-old child. What does today’s Midwestern Snowpocalypse look like from space? Behold. Now that is a hip check!

Ancient and Indecipherable Document 1, Government-Run Health Care 0. Posted: 31 Jan 2011 10:25 PM PST Monday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Vinson pushed the entire progressive wing of the Democratic Party over the edge into unadulterated nincompoopery with his decision to void Obamacare. Judge Vinson’s reasoning is simple and elegant. The individual mandate is a clear violation of the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. Since Congress did not intend for that part of the law to be severed from the whole and since the Obama administration specifically argued that it was the key part of the legislation, the entire law is void. Jennifer Rubin notes, far more nicely than I would have, that the left appears to have been taken aback by this decision. The first three links of my post here bear that out — the snarky dismissal and pure fabrications that greeted the decisions tell me that some of the left’s brightest lights never though it possible that a judge could write such a devastating deconstruction of their prized achievement. The White House as well was unable to muster more of a response than you’d get from an anonymous Twitter troll. Judge Vinson’s decision is solid, though, and is worth reading. It is remarkably  approachable for someone who didn’t spend a decade in law school. Melissa Clouthier pulled out a few of the most choice excerpts for your reading ease. I expect that the administration will attempt some sort of appeal, once it can manage more than a sniffled “that didn’t hurt”. As of now, Obamacare is dead, but it won’t be completely dead until Congress repeals it (and that’s looking more possible each day).

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