NRO Digest - Today was a very bad day for the Obama administration’s arguments

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NRO Digest

March 27, 2012

Today on National Review Online . . .

RICH LOWRY: The debate over Obamacare has wrongly been about utility rather than constitutionality. Madison's Last Stand.

CARRIE SEVERINO: Today was a very bad day for the Obama administration's arguments. Today's Arguments Tilt Against the Individual Mandate.

BRIAN BOLDUC: Liberals should stop appealing to historical precedent to defend Obamacare. No, George Washington Wasn't A Socialist.

JOHN McCLAUGHRY: Want to know what single-payer legislation looks like? Vermont's Health-Care Petri Dish.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The president has a bad habit of wading uninformed into local controversies. Obama's Demagoguery.

JOHN O'SULLIVAN: Outlining a debate on capital punishment. European Dignity, American Rights.

JOHN FUND: Obama continues to dance with the one who brung him. Still the Alinsky Playbook.

MONA CHAREN: Remembering with gratitude one who lived graciously. In Memoriam: Priscilla Buckley.

ROBERT VERBRUGGEN: An Idaho couple continues to fight the EPA. The Next Step for the Sacketts.

CHARLES C. W. COOKE: Drums are egalitarian, non-hierarchical -- and loud. The Left's Percussive Fetish.

THOMAS SOWELL: Practical advice, not race baiting, shows real concern for minority youth. Geraldo and the Hoodies.

DENNIS PRAGER: Are the "less fortunate" actually less fortunate? Affluence and Fortune.

JAY NORDLINGER: The conservative world has lost another friend, legendary art critic and co-founder of The New Criterion. The Superb, Dazzling, All-Conquering Hilton Kramer.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The acrimony over the Trayvon Martin case will worsen attitudes on both sides. Racial-Relations Regression.

BETWEEN THE COVERS: John J. Miller talks with Jay Nordlinger about his new book. Peace, They Say.

UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE: Senate Minority Leader McConnell discusses the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis and getting President Obama to take responsibility for his reckless budget. Counting Obama with Senator Mitch McConnell: Chapter 2 of 5.

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