*Relax Conservatives: The Liberal Media is Doomed, by Dan Calabrese.

*Illegal Health Reform, by David Rivkin Jr. and Lee Casey.

“The Constitution assigns only limited, enumerated powers to Congress and none, including the power to regulate interstate commerce or to impose taxes, would support a federal mandate requiring anyone who is otherwise without health insurance to buy it.

Although the Supreme Court has interpreted Congress’s commerce power expansively, this type of mandate would not pass muster even under the most aggressive commerce clause cases.”

*The Great Escape, by Thomas Sowell.

*Why are the unions astro-turfing townhalls?  I’ll give you ten billion reasons.

“…a $10-billion provision tucked deep inside thousands of pages of health care overhaul bills that could help the UAW’s retiree health-care plan and other union-backed plans.

It would see the government — at least temporarily — pay 80 cents on the dollar to corporate and union insurance plans for claims between $15,000 and $90,000 for retirees age 55 to 64…”

RELATED: Hospital endorsements?  How about 16 billion reasons.  This abomination (obamination?) is a money maker for everyone, except the American taxpayer, of course.

*The High Cost of Liberalism, by Pete Du Pont.

*Obama’s Summer of Discontent, by Fouad Ajami.

“The failure of the Carter years was, in Reagan’s view, the failure of the man at the helm and the policies he had pursued at home and abroad. At no time had Ronald Reagan believed that the American covenant had failed, that America should apologize for itself in the world beyond its shores. There was no narcissism in Reagan. It was stirring that the man who headed into the sunset of his life would bid his country farewell by reminding it that its best days were yet to come.

In contrast, there is joylessness in Mr. Obama. He is a scold, the “Yes we can!” mantra is shallow, and at any rate, it is about the coming to power of a man, and a political class, invested in its own sense of smarts and wisdom, and its right to alter the social contract of the land. In this view, the country had lost its way and the new leader and the political class arrayed around him will bring it back to the right path.”

Read the whole thing.

*Uncreative Destruction, at NRO.

*Madison Checks Obama, by Peter Wehner.

*Your Daily Dose of Awesome: A Venus Fly-Trap that eats rats whole.